
Sarah Cheok
Production
Biography
Sarah CHEOK is a Singaporean animation filmmaker whose works include the animated short film The Growth (2019), which screened in Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film and won Digicon6’s Next Generation Award and Cartoons Underground’s Best Singapore Student Animation.
Known For

Art student Ian Jing impresses the realism-loving art teacher Mrs. Hui from the get-go. Following her advice, he draws exactly what he sees, straining his eyes in the process. To Mrs. Hui’s horror, Ian’s artwork gets progressively blurrier. In turn, his online fame skyrockets, as art critics on social media praise his unique style as an abstract artist. They ascribe deep, profound (pretentious) intentions and meanings to his stylistic choices, when all he's actually doing is drawing exactly what he sees.
What I See

THE VISIT is an intimate stop-motion short film about a young girl’s growing-up years and her relationship with her incarcerated father.
The Visit

A stressed-out middle-aged woman discovers the wonders of a vibrator, but soon becomes addicted to solo pleasure sessions and loses touch with reality.
She & Her Good Vibrations

An ambitious young boy is eager to grow up so he can experience the world outside of his kelong in the middle of the ocean. Eventually, he musters up the courage to persuade the old man but was faced with disapproval. Being young and ambitious, the boy decides to go anyway.
The Growth
Merlion sells rojak at a local hawker center. All his life confused by his mixed identity of fish and lion, he seeks to find an answer within himself.
Merlion's Rojak
Felicity has begun to realise her unhappiness with her mundane life in a modern Singapore. Pressured by various aspects of her life, she secretly longs for freedom, in the form of a tiger.