"The most beautiful and entrancing animated film I saw this year - a five-minute stop-motion short called " The Dying World," directed by 27-year-old artist, actress, model, and one-time reality TV star Lauren Tsai - is the story of an idea that no one wants. And it began with an idea that Tsai had always been afraid no one wanted: a vision of herself that didn't align with the one she was assigned to fulfill."
"Like many fans of her work, I first encountered Tsai when she appeared on a Japanese reality show called " Terrace House" in 2016. She jumped out at me for the same basic, screamingly obvious reason that I couldn't name another cast member from her season with a gun to my head: She was catastrophically miscast. It's not that Tsai was boring (which at least might have served the hyper-manufactured coziness of a show"
Lauren Tsai made a five-minute stop-motion short called The Dying World about an idea that no one wants and a vision of self that conflicted with an assigned role. Tsai first gained attention on the Japanese reality show Terrace House in 2016, where she felt catastrophically miscast. Her introverted but vividly intelligent presence exposed the manufactured nature of the program. Tsai became believable when resisting artificial demands, and a scene of her criticizing castmates read as unusually raw. Longing for another world helped drive her choices, including applying to a nearby Japanese TV program.
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