FILM

This short film is a re-creation on Hamlet through the lens of contemporary art. 

Picture talk is a powerful tool for developing children's language skills. Recall pictures you've seen that have been used in this exercise: a child doing homework while a mother watches, a rabbit and bear befriending under a tree, or a father presenting flowers to a mother? These simple narratives shape the 'values' children absorb. The film employs a distinct narrative style, with Hamlet performing in the upper left corner and Horatio describing the scene in the lower right,just like practicing a picture talk. Horatio’s commentary serves as an ideological promotion. What occurs when Horatio disappears? The distorted images—living dancing with the dead, flickering lights, hanging nooses, and disordered floors—reveal the horror that emerges when picture talk pauses, in other words, the unknown reality that surfaces when language silences. In the end, Horatio returns, and Hamlet's head is whimsically transformed into a white balloon, reflecting the violence and indifference inherence in picture talk.