Burger Satiation 汉堡饱和
漢堡飽和 カンホウホウワ
not online released yet (festivals only)
Length: 05:21
Year: 2024
The film uses some Chinese characters that make up the word "hamburger" to illustrate a fabricated psychological phenomenon called "Burger Satiation" - suddenly not recognizing a burger after staring at it for a while. This phenomenon is caused by neural inhibition, where the brain can only focus on one part of the burger, leading to a loss of a sense of wholeness and a feeling that the burger's meaning has become unfamiliar.
Director & Animation: Sijia LUO
Sound: Sijia LUO
( This film attempts to breathe life into Chinese characters. Unlike the act of "animation", which gives life to other inanimate objects, this film simulates the process of Semantic Satiation / Orthographic Satiation (also known as Gestaltzerfall, 语义饱和, 完形崩坏). This phenomenon only occurs with logograms and has a profound effect: originally meaningful Chinese characters are broken down into shapes that can be interpreted as any object. My aim is to use animation as a means of expression to imbue these shapes with a personal will, gradually deviating from the meaning of the text itself and becoming a proxy for the author or the individuals themselves. )
This film is part of a 22-minute animated anthology "Burger Order".
"Burger Order" is an experimental animated anthology that brings together six animators with different styles to realize a shared theme. Starting from the "burger", as an important modern symbol, each of the six authors developed their own thoughts and imaginations in their works.
