2025 | Canada | Documentary,Experimental,Short

敬祖 ·PAYING RESPECTS

  • English/Chinese English/Chinese 6 mins
  • Director | Jessica Wu
  • Writer | Jessica Wu
  • Producer | Jessica Wu

STATUS: Completed

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‘敬祖 ·PAYING RESPECTS’ is a short film using the Chinese ritual of burning joss paper to reflect on questions of death & diaspora. Yiqing explores her grief by offering her ancestors everything they couldn’t afford. Everything she burns gets sent to the afterlife. The film plays with themes of memory, distance and dreams.

death diaspora grief distance joss paper ritual memory