What is Your Favorite Primitive

Set within a crumbling cinema, Li Yi-Fan’s What is Your Favorite Primitive explores the awkward, playful spirit at the heart of virtual production: its aspirations of transcending time and space by replicating reality on-screen. As characters become tools of the software, and software itself takes on the role of a character, the film imagines the technology of animation as a stage that scripts its own dramas and epic conflicts.

Told through a semi-autobiographical lens and created using a video game engine, What is Your Favorite Primitive offers both parody and serious reflection—a meditation on the pleasures and perils of building a personal persona within screenspace.