Round Table

QihanJiang

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Round Table is a short stop-motion animation built from over 300 AI-generated images, each based on hand-drawn sketches and digital collages. Set at a Shanghainese family’s Chinese New Year dinner, the film explores how cultural expectation, gender roles, and generational pressure are performed through everyday rituals. While rooted in a specific context, these dynamics echo broadly across Asian diaspora. Rather than using AI for polish or realism, the film embraces the medium’s instability by