Title:
Beauty
Year:
2017
Running time:
2:59 minutes
Format:
HD digital film, color with sound
Location:
Melbourne, Australia
Acknowledgment:
produced in association with the Victoria College of the Arts at the University of Melbourne
Directed – Su Yang & Zhang Xiaoan
This short film discusses the shifting socialized ideal of beauty that makes women lose recognition of themselves and even encourages them to change their appearances through radical means, such as unnecessary non-therapeutic cosmetic surgery. The significance of this film is to show the “beauty” created by cosmetic surgery as a response to the desire for a particular look. Beauty won the Melbourne International Film Festival’s Powershorts Short Film Competition and was officially selected in nearly 20 international film festivals in Australia, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Nigeria, Greece, India, Spain, Portugal, the UK, and the US.
SU YANG 杨苏 