Now I'm in the Kitchen
TITLE
Now I’m in the Kitchen
DIRECTOR
Yana Pan
COUNTRY
USA, China
YEAR
2022
DURATION
6′
GENRE
Animation
Now I'm in the Kitchen
I refuse to cook for a long time. Growing up, watching my mom struggle as a housewife made me label cooking as a housewife activity that is, loney, frustrating, tedious. As I grow older, I start cooking more. The same pot, same recipe, same smell, connecting my mom and I. Through cooking, I reflect on what it means to be independent and my relationship with my mom.
DIRECTOR BIOGRAPHY - Yana Pan
Yana Pan is an animation director and designer, originally from China, currently working and living in Los Angeles. Once a new yorker, she forever pronounces coffee as caw-fee. Yana focuses on 2D frame by frame animation by using multimedia. She uses animation as a means to investigate her own relationship to the world around her, the intimate relationship between the animator and single frame allows and gives her the time to think and analyze the puzzle again and again. The puzzle can be social psychology, culture, mother-daughter relationship or sometimes simply “why are there so many little bird houses in my neighborhood?” Her short animations have been selected into festivals, and reviewed by press internationally, such as Picotplasma, The Centre Pompidou Website, It’s Nice That, Nowness Asia and more. In 2022, she graduated from the California Institute of the Arts with an MFA in Experimental Animation. In 2016, she received a BFA from the School of Visual Arts.
- DirectorYana Pan
- ScreenplayPan Yana
- CinematographyPan Yana
- Cast
- EditingPan Yana
- Producer/s Pan Yana
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Production Company
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Distributor/s
- Project TitleNow I'm in the Kitchen
- Project TypeAnimation
- Completion Date January 1, 2022
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Country of origin
USA, China - Country of filmingUSA, China
- LanguageMandarin
- First-time Filmmaker No
- Student ProjectYes
Yana Pan
Yana Pan is an animation director and designer, originally from China, currently working and living in Los Angeles. Once a new yorker, she forever pronounces coffee as caw-fee. Yana focuses on 2D frame by frame animation by using multimedia. She uses animation as a means to investigate her own relationship to the world around her, the intimate relationship between the animator and single frame allows and gives her the time to think and analyze the puzzle again and again. The puzzle can be social psychology, culture, mother-daughter relationship or sometimes simply “why are there so many little bird houses in my neighborhood?” Her short animations have been selected into festivals, and reviewed by press internationally, such as Picotplasma, The Centre Pompidou Website, It’s Nice That, Nowness Asia and more. In 2022, she graduated from the California Institute of the Arts with an MFA in Experimental Animation. In 2016, she received a BFA from the School of Visual Arts.
