Confusion of the Afternoon
Concept & Narrative Alignment
During pre-production, the director and I established Tango as the film's core musical identity. Beyond complementing an on-screen dance sequence, tango's innate push-and-pull rhythm and fatalistic undertone served as an auditory metaphor for the protagonist's psychological struggle, caught between the impulse to reach out and the instinct to withdraw.
Orchestration & Duality
The instrumentation intentionally bifurcates reality and desire. An intimate, pure piano voice plays the lead melody, functioning as the character's internal monologue. In contrast, lush orchestral passages are reserved exclusively for the protagonist's romanticized daydreams of intimacy, utilizing sonic scale to delineate the boundary between suppressed reality and vivid longing.
Awards
2025 NOIA International University Film Festival, Brazil — Critics' Jury Award, Best Animated Short 2024 Llamale H International Film Festival, Uruguay — Best International Short 2024 Ionian Contemporary Animation Festival, Greece — 2nd Prize, Student Category 2024 Golden Harvest Awards, Taiwan — Nominee, Student Animation 2023 Interrobang Film Festival, USA — Best Film, Best Student Short 2023 AnimaQUEER Festival, Brazil — Special Mention 2023 K.T. Li Award for Technology & Arts, Taiwan — Honorable Mention, Digital Animation
Selected Festivals
2024 Festival Internacional de Cine de Lebu, Chile (Oscar-qualifying) 2024 Drama International Short Film Festival, Greece (Oscar-qualifying) 2024 Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Festival, London 2023 Huesca International Film Festival, Spain (Oscar-qualifying) 2023 Uppsala International Short Film Festival, Sweden (Oscar-qualifying) 2023 New York Asian Film Festival 2023 Palm Springs Animation Festival 2023 TLVFest, Israel 2023 Taiwan International Queer Film Festival
Credits
Director
Yung-Chieh Lee
Producer
Chiao-Fang Lin
Screenwriter
Yung-Chieh Lee
Sound Design
DC Tu