“The book instructs you on how to live to a 100. Wondering if my grandfather really wanted to live for that long… made me feel again the fear, hopelessness, & (the) curiosity I experienced in the dream.”

Cassie Shao

is an LA-based animation artist.

Her films have been screened at film festivals worldwide including the Leipzig Festival , PÖFF Shorts, Ani’mest, Encounters, LUFF, LIAF, Mill Valley, Cucalorus, KLIK, & Ars Independent. She has exhibited at the Hammer Museum & The Getty Museum, both in LA, the CICA Museum in South Korea, & the Rosalux Gallery in Minneapolis.

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