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​HAYDEN HE

Film / Video / Director / Editor

​BIO

​Hayden He was born in Shenzhen, China in 2001, now studying
in School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She works as an Independent Director and Editor for many narrative and experimental short films. Mostly focusing on fantasy genre in her own works. Her first-time directed short film A Trip to the Moon has been an official selection in 2021 LA Shorts and several other International film festivals. Her non-budget short film TOUCH has acquired 40000+views at Xinpianchang.

Hayden is a film director, editor born in Shenzhen, focusing on low-cost fantasy/romance films. As a genre film creator, she likes to inject experimental narrative and audio-visual expression into genre films, and is influenced by the editing techniques of the French New Wave and post-New Wave. She is committed to blurring the boundaries of various image media, and exploring the cinematic feel from these image media, and using them in the exploration of image narratives to bring novelty to the audience. As an editor/director, she is also committed to exploring new forms of editing in her works, and growing up in Shenzhen, the most "cyberpunk" modern city in China, she is keen to embrace the development of technology. With increasingly modern images, these choices make her films more transcendent and dynamic, and she skillfully excavates emotional moments from the rational city. In terms of thematic expression, she focuses on the emotional state of young men and women in cities in today's society, as well as the subtle conflicts between fantasy and reality, sensibility and rationality in people's lives. In the current era of information overload, excessive choices and dazzling, she uses images to express Walk through it and look for its simplicity and simplicity.

DIRECTED/EDITED PROJECTS

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