I Say What You Taught Me To Say

Yu-Ching Chen (TW)

Born in Taiwan, currently studying at the Taipei National University of the Arts. During an exchange program, studied in the Time-based and Interactive Media Arts department.

She has cared for a parrot for over twelve years, and she observes animals—and humans—with quiet fascination. Her work often draws from small emotional glitches and illogical moments in daily life, transforming them into narrative-driven animation and moving image. Her visual style balances cuteness and eeriness, wrapping unsettling ideas in soft colors to reveal a world of absurdity.

Set on a fictional planet inhabited by parrots, this animated short follows a humanoid parrot who slowly realizes that everything she says is borrowed, repeated, imposed. Language becomes surface. Voice becomes performance. Meaning slips away.

Wrapped in gentle colors and uncanny beauty, the film unravels how language can be inherited, distorted, and performed—until the self begins to fracture. When mimicry becomes survival, she asks: whose words am I really speaking?

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