Geomancer (2017)

Geomancer

2017

Animation Music Science Fiction

Synopsis

Heralded by the futuristic computer-generated cityscapes that have become a signature feature of his work, Lawrence Lek’s mini-opus Geomancer is less inclined to map the building blocks of the urban architecture of tomorrow than to try and summon up the spirit of our rapidly dawning age - one whose characteristics, Lek implies, include the growing ascendancy of the cultural phenomenon of Sino-Futurism. As the geopolitical axis tilts further to the East, and as once-dominant economic/technological models are cast into doubt, Lek alights on a longstanding tension between the place of the human and the role of the machine, sharpened by contemporary hopes and anxieties around the rise of East Asia, and by speculations that new forms of artificial intelligence, already outperforming mere mortals in matters of automation and aggregation, will challenge us in more creative skills as well. (fvu.co.uk)

Credits

Director

Lawrence Lek

Cast

Gary Zhexi Zhang as Master Wu

Jennifer Ka Yan Lam as Dealer

Joni Zhu as Geomancer

Xiaoyi Nie as Master Rui

Crew

Clifford Sage (CG Animator)

Johnny Lui (CG Artist)

Lawrence Lek (CG Artist)