Blossom Frenzy
Los Angeles, California | Film Short
Experimental, Horror
Blossom Frenzy is a mythic, non-verbal short film about a young druid whose body is destined to nourish the forest she serves. Through ritual, dance, and striking practical effects, the film explores sacrifice, autonomy, and the cycles we inherit. Your support helps bring this haunting world to life
Blossom Frenzy
Los Angeles, California | Film Short
Experimental, Horror
3 Campaigns | California, United States
4 supporters | followers
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Goal: $8,000 for production
Blossom Frenzy is a mythic, non-verbal short film about a young druid whose body is destined to nourish the forest she serves. Through ritual, dance, and striking practical effects, the film explores sacrifice, autonomy, and the cycles we inherit. Your support helps bring this haunting world to life
About The Project
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Mission Statement
The Story
What Is "Blossom Frenzy" About?
Blossom Frenzy is a sensory, non-verbal short film rooted in Chinese mythology and expressed through ritualized movement, striking natural landscapes, and visceral body horror. Set within a living forest governed by ancient cycles, the film follows a young druid as she prepares her body for its eventual return to the ecosystem she serves. What begins as an act of devotion slowly reveals itself to be part of a larger system of extraction, one that demands endless sacrifice while disguising itself as necessity.
At its core, the film examines the feminine body as a site of labor, consumption, and transformation. Through allegorical imagery and mythic storytelling, Blossom Frenzy explores how cycles of care and self-sacrifice become inherited, normalized, and difficult to escape. The forest functions both as a source of life and as a force of obligation, reflecting the tensions between autonomy and duty, creation and consumption, agency and surrender.
Folklore has long served as a way to understand the systems that shape our lives. In a moment when many are questioning inherited expectations surrounding identity, labor, and the body, Blossom Frenzy seeks to create a space for reflection through image rather than explanation. By merging ancient myth with contemporary anxieties, the film invites audiences into a dreamlike world where the boundaries between human and environment dissolve.
Ultimately, Blossom Frenzy is a meditation on what we owe to the systems that sustain us, and what it means to reclaim ownership of ourselves when those systems ask for everything in return.
What Will It Look Like?
Blossom Frenzy will blend natural landscapes with stylized ritual imagery to create a world that feels both ancient and unsettlingly familiar. Shot within dense forests, coastal environments, and decaying natural spaces, the film will emphasize organic textures, practical effects, and choreographed movement to blur the boundary between body and environment.
Rather than relying on dialogue, meaning will be conveyed through gesture, repetition, and visual transformation. The camera will observe ritual acts with a quiet, clinical precision, allowing moments of beauty and horror to coexist within the same frame. Natural light, atmospheric landscapes, and tactile production design will ground the film, while practical prosthetics and subtle visual effects will bring its mythological elements to life.
Cinematically, Blossom Frenzy draws inspiration from films such as The Isle, Men, and The Color of Pomegranates, combining folk horror, symbolic imagery, and corporeal transformation. The result is intended to feel dreamlike and immersive, inviting audiences into a living ecosystem where growth, decay, and rebirth are inseparable.`
Who's Involved?
Alena Saveleva - Writer/Director
Alena is an artist and filmmaker focused on visual and non-linear storytelling that unfolds around non-human myths and essences. Her practice stands for the decentralization of the human perspective, pursuing the reenchantment of nature. Cycles and rebirth are pivotal themes in her narratives, which offer an experience of soothing acknowledgment of death. Alena's passion for film serves as a source of perfectionism in both her client work and personal video art.
As a digital post-production artist, over the past two years she has collaborated with VFX studios such as Digital Domain (with clients including Columbia Pictures, Marvel Studios, and Warner Bros. Pictures) and Logan TV (with clients including Apple and Rashaad Newsome). Her cinematic and video work has been featured in galleries and festivals in Los Angeles, New York City, multiple locations across Europe, as well as London and Singapore.
Honzo Smilek - Producer
Originally born in Deerfield Beach, FL, Honzo grew up as the son of Czechoslovak immigrants in the greater Washington, DC area. Honzo has directed documentary shorts, narrative shorts and interviews, and also worked as the cinematographer for the short films "I'll Be Seeing You" and "Unexpected", and the camera operator for "Humanity Stoked". After a brief stint in the music industry (directing music videos and short form documentaries for artists like Anaya Lovenote & Davi Sol), Honzo turned his focus back to narrative filmmaking.
Ian B. Gibson - Cinematographer
Ian is a filmmaker, editor and colorist based in the Los Angeles area. Growing up in Texas as a skateboarder, he was initially drawn into the world of filmmaking through skate videos. He has since worked all over the Unites States on a myriad of different films, including the award-winning documentary "Humanity Stoked." He has also worked on projects for Nike, Tribeca, and What Stops You.
NJH - Ceramics Artist/Set Design
NJH is a Southern California based artist whose striking biomorphic ceramic sculptures interrogate themes of vulnerability and self-preservation, and the tension between beauty and brutality therewithin. Each of NJH’s evocative sculptures is painstakingly hand constructed. The artist first builds the body by rolling out and layering thick coils of clay to which he adheres “thorns” that were shaped individually by pinching, carving, or press moulding. The distinguishing feature of NJH’s works are the sharp organic protuberances that appear to defiantly unfurl from and enclose the body of the vessel; born out of the artists’ personal struggles and trauma, these “thorns,” as NJH describes them, viscerally bring to form the grace and violence required to protect oneself from a hostile world.
More info about our team (and the rest of our talented cast and crew) can be found on the "Team" tab!
What's The Timeline?
We're currently preparing for principal photography this summer, with production taking place across two extraordinary California locations.
Our first shoot will take place at the Bamboo Giant Nursery & Gardens, whose towering bamboo groves provide the perfect setting for the film's living, ritualistic forest. This location will serve as the heart of the Young Druid's world, allowing us to capture the dense, immersive environment that defines much of the film's visual language.
Our second shoot will take place at the Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes, one of the largest remaining dune systems on the West Coast. The stark, windswept landscape offers a striking contrast to the dense bamboo forest, helping us portray the film's more surreal and transformative moments.
Following principal photography, we'll complete a small number of pickup shots for visual effects sequences before moving into post-production, where creature effects, compositing, sound design, and color grading will bring the world of Blossom Frenzy fully to life.
We're aiming to have the film completed and ready for festival submissions in 2027.
Where's The Money Going?
Every dollar counts! Here's our breakdown currently.
How Can I Help?
Your contribution, whether it's a modest $10 or a generous $1000, plays a pivotal role in realizing our film's vision. Each dollar brings us closer to creating a captivating world on screen, where every detail, every scene, and every character comes to life. Your pledge is not just a donation; it's an investment in storytelling, in the arts, and in the future of independent cinema. Every dollar counts, and every supporter like you helps us take a step closer to making 'Blossom Frenzy' a reality. Join us on this incredible journey, and together, let's create something truly extraordinary.
Also feel free to follow our director @moineau_____ on Instagram, where we'll regularly post updates regarding the film and its development. Every like, comment, share and follow will help bring us closer to achieving our goal and bringing this story to life!!!!
We can't thank you enough for helping us out with this picture!!
Best regards,
Alena and the Blossom Frenzy Team
Wishlist
Use the WishList to Pledge cash and Loan items - or - Make a pledge by selecting an Incentive directly.
Locations + Transportation
Costs $1,200
Bamboo Giant Nursery and Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes will ground our atmospheric world; permits and crew travel are essential to build our world!
Camera Gear + Crew
Costs $1,800
A varied lens package will shift between sublime scale and uneasy intimacy. In particular, we are looking to rent an FX6 for nighttime.
SFX/Prosthetics/Props
Costs $1,250
Custom silicone prosthetics and ceremonial vessels, crafted by material artists, will ground our world in tactile authenticity.
Choreography
Costs $850
A choreographer and dancers will shape the creatures’ liminal movement through experimental rehearsals central to the character’s arc.
Food + Craft Services + Meals
Costs $500
Help keep our cast and crew fed, hydrated, and energized with meals, snacks, coffee, and water throughout our 5 long shoot days.
Nuke Post-Production License
Costs $1,600
Help us complete the film with professional editing, color, VFX, sound design, and the final polish that brings its world to life.
Witch Costumes
Costs $800
Haunting, handcrafted dresses—one-of-a-kind costumes that shape the world and its characters.
Direct link:
Share this update!
About This Team
Meet Our Team!
Alena Saveleva - Writer/Director
Alena is an artist and filmmaker focused on visual and non-linear storytelling that unfolds around non-human myths and essences. Her practice stands for the decentralization of the human perspective, pursuing the reenchantment of nature. Cycles and rebirth are pivotal themes in her narratives, which offer an experience of soothing acknowledgment of death. Alena's passion for film serves as a source of perfectionism in both her client work and personal video art.
As a digital post-production artist, over the past two years she has collaborated with VFX studios such as Digital Domain (with clients including Columbia Pictures, Marvel Studios, and Warner Bros. Pictures) and Logan TV (with clients including Apple and Rashaad Newsome). Her cinematic and video work has been featured in galleries and festivals in Los Angeles, New York City, multiple locations across Europe, as well as London and Singapore.
Honzo Smilek - Producer
Originally born in Deerfield Beach, FL, Honzo grew up as the son of Czechoslovak immigrants in the greater Washington, DC area. Honzo has directed documentary shorts, narrative shorts and interviews, and also worked as the cinematographer for the short films "I'll Be Seeing You" and "Unexpected", and the camera operator for "Humanity Stoked". After a brief stint in the music industry (directing music videos and short form documentaries for artists like Anaya Lovenote & Davi Sol), Honzo turned his focus back to narrative filmmaking.
Ian B. Gibson - Cinematographer
Ian is a filmmaker, editor and colorist based in the Los Angeles area. Growing up in Texas as a skateboarder, he was initially drawn into the world of filmmaking through skate videos. He has since worked all over the Unites States on a myriad of different films, including the award-winning documentary "Humanity Stoked." He has also worked on projects for Nike, Tribeca, and What Stops You.
NJH - Ceramics Artist/Set Design
NJH is a Southern California based artist whose striking biomorphic ceramic sculptures interrogate themes of vulnerability and self-preservation, and the tension between beauty and brutality therewithin. Each of NJH’s evocative sculptures is painstakingly hand constructed. The artist first builds the body by rolling out and layering thick coils of clay to which he adheres “thorns” that were shaped individually by pinching, carving, or press moulding. The distinguishing feature of NJH’s works are the sharp organic protuberances that appear to defiantly unfurl from and enclose the body of the vessel; born out of the artists’ personal struggles and trauma, these “thorns,” as NJH describes them, viscerally bring to form the grace and violence required to protect oneself from a hostile world.
Crystal Sasaki - Choreographer
Crystal Sasaki is a Yonsei Butoh dancer, choreographer, performance artist, and somatic educator living in Los Angeles. Her practice begins and ends with improvisation, excavating internal and relational terrain in pursuit of raw presence. Through movement and audiovisual poetry she explores intuitive states, archetypal entanglements, and human/nonhuman transformations. Sasaki is a certified Deep Listening facilitator through the Center for Deep Listening and holds a BA in Dance and Performance Studies from UC Berkeley. Her work has been presented by New Expressive Works, Ten Tiny Dances, Performance Works NW, NW Butoh Festival, Poetic Research Bureau, and beyond.
Yi Cheung - SFX/Prosthetics Artist
Yi Cheung is an artist, designer, and educator based in Los Angeles, originally from Hong Kong. Her fabrication practice spans bodily extensions, installations and material world-building across gallery exhibitions, commercial music videos, indie films, and magazine editorials. Her wider artistic practice dissolves the perceived boundary between human and nonhuman life. Drawing from an architectural background, she rejects the sterile, human-centered myth of built space — returning it to its murkier nature. Her narratives foreground forgotten rituals of living things, revealing kinships and entanglements.
She holds dual master's degrees from the Southern California Institute of Architecture, in Architecture and in Fiction & Entertainment, leading to her art and research practice, OTW, which engages biomaterials and speculative environments as frameworks for architectural inquiry.
Tokie Wang - "Young Druid"
Tokie Wang is a Chinese choreographer, dancer, actor, and visual artist based in Los Angeles. She received her MFA in Choreography from the California Institute of the Arts with a minor in Integrated Media. Her work bridges movement, visual storytelling, and performance across both experimental and commercial fields. Recent credits include campaigns and projects with Apple, Meta Ray-Ban, Walmart, HOKA, Urban Decay, Got2b, and Evanescence. Tokie’s artistic practice explores the relationship between body, memory, technology, and cinematic space, often blending choreography with visual art and installation-based thinking.
Josie Hung - "Faceless Witch"
Josie Hung is a queer, non-binary, Taiwanese American actor based in Los Angeles. Recent credits include: voicing VIP Jennifer in Squid Game S3, playing Amy in the Lifetime Movie Eat, Pray, Lie, and portraying the lead in “Maps” on Hulu (Rising Voices, S2EP8). Josie’s films have screened at Cannes, Tribeca, LA Shorts, and more. Outside of acting, Josie also plays flute, traditional Chinese bamboo flute (dizi and xiao), and taiko drums, and studies Chinese mixed martial arts. Josie loves using the power of storytelling to allow others to feel seen in all their multitudes, for speculative fiction, and to inspire change within our own societies.
Toria Kahni Shi - "Faceless Witch"
Toria Kahni Shi's work explores an Asian ancient-future: a shifting ecology of bodies through poetry, welded sculpture, wearable forms, ceramics and movement, they open thresholds where interior states such as pain, rupture and transformation become sonic and corporeal material. Shaped by backgrounds in biotechnology and psychology and living with chronic autoimmune illness, they approach the body as unstable and relational. Performance becomes a site of adaptation, endurance, and collective repair. Influenced by cyborg theory, posthuman philosophy, science fiction, and drag, they create sonic objects and environments activated through embodied exchange where collaboration is central to their practice.
They hold a Master degree from California Institute of the Arts and bachelor’s degrees in Psychology and Social Behavior and Biology from University of California, Irvine.
Maddie Skowronek - "Faceless Witch"
Maddie Skowronek (she/her) is a dancer and creative originally from the Bay Area, currently based in Los Angeles. She graduated from UCLA with degrees in Communication and Dance, working in commercial and concert spaces as a professional dancer. Alongside performing and teaching, her work is deeply influenced by visual art and painting techniques, as well as athletic training. She is drawn to movement that blends texture and storytelling through both athleticism and artistry.
Nina Higo - "Faceless Witch"
Nina Higo is a Los Angeles based dancer who has studied classical and commercial styles of dance for over 15 years. Nina is half Japanese half Native American and Mexican and enjoys all forms of movement in her daily life.
Current Team
Incentives
- The Story
- Wishlist
- Updates
- The Team
- Community
Mission Statement
The Story
What Is "Blossom Frenzy" About?
Blossom Frenzy is a sensory, non-verbal short film rooted in Chinese mythology and expressed through ritualized movement, striking natural landscapes, and visceral body horror. Set within a living forest governed by ancient cycles, the film follows a young druid as she prepares her body for its eventual return to the ecosystem she serves. What begins as an act of devotion slowly reveals itself to be part of a larger system of extraction, one that demands endless sacrifice while disguising itself as necessity.
At its core, the film examines the feminine body as a site of labor, consumption, and transformation. Through allegorical imagery and mythic storytelling, Blossom Frenzy explores how cycles of care and self-sacrifice become inherited, normalized, and difficult to escape. The forest functions both as a source of life and as a force of obligation, reflecting the tensions between autonomy and duty, creation and consumption, agency and surrender.
Folklore has long served as a way to understand the systems that shape our lives. In a moment when many are questioning inherited expectations surrounding identity, labor, and the body, Blossom Frenzy seeks to create a space for reflection through image rather than explanation. By merging ancient myth with contemporary anxieties, the film invites audiences into a dreamlike world where the boundaries between human and environment dissolve.
Ultimately, Blossom Frenzy is a meditation on what we owe to the systems that sustain us, and what it means to reclaim ownership of ourselves when those systems ask for everything in return.
What Will It Look Like?
Blossom Frenzy will blend natural landscapes with stylized ritual imagery to create a world that feels both ancient and unsettlingly familiar. Shot within dense forests, coastal environments, and decaying natural spaces, the film will emphasize organic textures, practical effects, and choreographed movement to blur the boundary between body and environment.
Rather than relying on dialogue, meaning will be conveyed through gesture, repetition, and visual transformation. The camera will observe ritual acts with a quiet, clinical precision, allowing moments of beauty and horror to coexist within the same frame. Natural light, atmospheric landscapes, and tactile production design will ground the film, while practical prosthetics and subtle visual effects will bring its mythological elements to life.
Cinematically, Blossom Frenzy draws inspiration from films such as The Isle, Men, and The Color of Pomegranates, combining folk horror, symbolic imagery, and corporeal transformation. The result is intended to feel dreamlike and immersive, inviting audiences into a living ecosystem where growth, decay, and rebirth are inseparable.`
Who's Involved?
Alena Saveleva - Writer/Director
Alena is an artist and filmmaker focused on visual and non-linear storytelling that unfolds around non-human myths and essences. Her practice stands for the decentralization of the human perspective, pursuing the reenchantment of nature. Cycles and rebirth are pivotal themes in her narratives, which offer an experience of soothing acknowledgment of death. Alena's passion for film serves as a source of perfectionism in both her client work and personal video art.
As a digital post-production artist, over the past two years she has collaborated with VFX studios such as Digital Domain (with clients including Columbia Pictures, Marvel Studios, and Warner Bros. Pictures) and Logan TV (with clients including Apple and Rashaad Newsome). Her cinematic and video work has been featured in galleries and festivals in Los Angeles, New York City, multiple locations across Europe, as well as London and Singapore.
Honzo Smilek - Producer
Originally born in Deerfield Beach, FL, Honzo grew up as the son of Czechoslovak immigrants in the greater Washington, DC area. Honzo has directed documentary shorts, narrative shorts and interviews, and also worked as the cinematographer for the short films "I'll Be Seeing You" and "Unexpected", and the camera operator for "Humanity Stoked". After a brief stint in the music industry (directing music videos and short form documentaries for artists like Anaya Lovenote & Davi Sol), Honzo turned his focus back to narrative filmmaking.
Ian B. Gibson - Cinematographer
Ian is a filmmaker, editor and colorist based in the Los Angeles area. Growing up in Texas as a skateboarder, he was initially drawn into the world of filmmaking through skate videos. He has since worked all over the Unites States on a myriad of different films, including the award-winning documentary "Humanity Stoked." He has also worked on projects for Nike, Tribeca, and What Stops You.
NJH - Ceramics Artist/Set Design
NJH is a Southern California based artist whose striking biomorphic ceramic sculptures interrogate themes of vulnerability and self-preservation, and the tension between beauty and brutality therewithin. Each of NJH’s evocative sculptures is painstakingly hand constructed. The artist first builds the body by rolling out and layering thick coils of clay to which he adheres “thorns” that were shaped individually by pinching, carving, or press moulding. The distinguishing feature of NJH’s works are the sharp organic protuberances that appear to defiantly unfurl from and enclose the body of the vessel; born out of the artists’ personal struggles and trauma, these “thorns,” as NJH describes them, viscerally bring to form the grace and violence required to protect oneself from a hostile world.
More info about our team (and the rest of our talented cast and crew) can be found on the "Team" tab!
What's The Timeline?
We're currently preparing for principal photography this summer, with production taking place across two extraordinary California locations.
Our first shoot will take place at the Bamboo Giant Nursery & Gardens, whose towering bamboo groves provide the perfect setting for the film's living, ritualistic forest. This location will serve as the heart of the Young Druid's world, allowing us to capture the dense, immersive environment that defines much of the film's visual language.
Our second shoot will take place at the Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes, one of the largest remaining dune systems on the West Coast. The stark, windswept landscape offers a striking contrast to the dense bamboo forest, helping us portray the film's more surreal and transformative moments.
Following principal photography, we'll complete a small number of pickup shots for visual effects sequences before moving into post-production, where creature effects, compositing, sound design, and color grading will bring the world of Blossom Frenzy fully to life.
We're aiming to have the film completed and ready for festival submissions in 2027.
Where's The Money Going?
Every dollar counts! Here's our breakdown currently.How Can I Help?
Your contribution, whether it's a modest $10 or a generous $1000, plays a pivotal role in realizing our film's vision. Each dollar brings us closer to creating a captivating world on screen, where every detail, every scene, and every character comes to life. Your pledge is not just a donation; it's an investment in storytelling, in the arts, and in the future of independent cinema. Every dollar counts, and every supporter like you helps us take a step closer to making 'Blossom Frenzy' a reality. Join us on this incredible journey, and together, let's create something truly extraordinary.
Also feel free to follow our director @moineau_____ on Instagram, where we'll regularly post updates regarding the film and its development. Every like, comment, share and follow will help bring us closer to achieving our goal and bringing this story to life!!!!
We can't thank you enough for helping us out with this picture!!
Best regards,
Alena and the Blossom Frenzy Team
Wishlist
Use the WishList to Pledge cash and Loan items - or - Make a pledge by selecting an Incentive directly.
Locations + Transportation
Costs $1,200
Bamboo Giant Nursery and Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes will ground our atmospheric world; permits and crew travel are essential to build our world!
Camera Gear + Crew
Costs $1,800
A varied lens package will shift between sublime scale and uneasy intimacy. In particular, we are looking to rent an FX6 for nighttime.
SFX/Prosthetics/Props
Costs $1,250
Custom silicone prosthetics and ceremonial vessels, crafted by material artists, will ground our world in tactile authenticity.
Choreography
Costs $850
A choreographer and dancers will shape the creatures’ liminal movement through experimental rehearsals central to the character’s arc.
Food + Craft Services + Meals
Costs $500
Help keep our cast and crew fed, hydrated, and energized with meals, snacks, coffee, and water throughout our 5 long shoot days.
Nuke Post-Production License
Costs $1,600
Help us complete the film with professional editing, color, VFX, sound design, and the final polish that brings its world to life.
Witch Costumes
Costs $800
Haunting, handcrafted dresses—one-of-a-kind costumes that shape the world and its characters.
Direct link:
Share this update!
About This Team
Meet Our Team!
Alena Saveleva - Writer/Director
Alena is an artist and filmmaker focused on visual and non-linear storytelling that unfolds around non-human myths and essences. Her practice stands for the decentralization of the human perspective, pursuing the reenchantment of nature. Cycles and rebirth are pivotal themes in her narratives, which offer an experience of soothing acknowledgment of death. Alena's passion for film serves as a source of perfectionism in both her client work and personal video art.
As a digital post-production artist, over the past two years she has collaborated with VFX studios such as Digital Domain (with clients including Columbia Pictures, Marvel Studios, and Warner Bros. Pictures) and Logan TV (with clients including Apple and Rashaad Newsome). Her cinematic and video work has been featured in galleries and festivals in Los Angeles, New York City, multiple locations across Europe, as well as London and Singapore.
Honzo Smilek - Producer
Originally born in Deerfield Beach, FL, Honzo grew up as the son of Czechoslovak immigrants in the greater Washington, DC area. Honzo has directed documentary shorts, narrative shorts and interviews, and also worked as the cinematographer for the short films "I'll Be Seeing You" and "Unexpected", and the camera operator for "Humanity Stoked". After a brief stint in the music industry (directing music videos and short form documentaries for artists like Anaya Lovenote & Davi Sol), Honzo turned his focus back to narrative filmmaking.
Ian B. Gibson - Cinematographer
Ian is a filmmaker, editor and colorist based in the Los Angeles area. Growing up in Texas as a skateboarder, he was initially drawn into the world of filmmaking through skate videos. He has since worked all over the Unites States on a myriad of different films, including the award-winning documentary "Humanity Stoked." He has also worked on projects for Nike, Tribeca, and What Stops You.
NJH - Ceramics Artist/Set Design
NJH is a Southern California based artist whose striking biomorphic ceramic sculptures interrogate themes of vulnerability and self-preservation, and the tension between beauty and brutality therewithin. Each of NJH’s evocative sculptures is painstakingly hand constructed. The artist first builds the body by rolling out and layering thick coils of clay to which he adheres “thorns” that were shaped individually by pinching, carving, or press moulding. The distinguishing feature of NJH’s works are the sharp organic protuberances that appear to defiantly unfurl from and enclose the body of the vessel; born out of the artists’ personal struggles and trauma, these “thorns,” as NJH describes them, viscerally bring to form the grace and violence required to protect oneself from a hostile world.
Crystal Sasaki - Choreographer
Crystal Sasaki is a Yonsei Butoh dancer, choreographer, performance artist, and somatic educator living in Los Angeles. Her practice begins and ends with improvisation, excavating internal and relational terrain in pursuit of raw presence. Through movement and audiovisual poetry she explores intuitive states, archetypal entanglements, and human/nonhuman transformations. Sasaki is a certified Deep Listening facilitator through the Center for Deep Listening and holds a BA in Dance and Performance Studies from UC Berkeley. Her work has been presented by New Expressive Works, Ten Tiny Dances, Performance Works NW, NW Butoh Festival, Poetic Research Bureau, and beyond.
Yi Cheung - SFX/Prosthetics Artist
Yi Cheung is an artist, designer, and educator based in Los Angeles, originally from Hong Kong. Her fabrication practice spans bodily extensions, installations and material world-building across gallery exhibitions, commercial music videos, indie films, and magazine editorials. Her wider artistic practice dissolves the perceived boundary between human and nonhuman life. Drawing from an architectural background, she rejects the sterile, human-centered myth of built space — returning it to its murkier nature. Her narratives foreground forgotten rituals of living things, revealing kinships and entanglements.
She holds dual master's degrees from the Southern California Institute of Architecture, in Architecture and in Fiction & Entertainment, leading to her art and research practice, OTW, which engages biomaterials and speculative environments as frameworks for architectural inquiry.
Tokie Wang - "Young Druid"
Tokie Wang is a Chinese choreographer, dancer, actor, and visual artist based in Los Angeles. She received her MFA in Choreography from the California Institute of the Arts with a minor in Integrated Media. Her work bridges movement, visual storytelling, and performance across both experimental and commercial fields. Recent credits include campaigns and projects with Apple, Meta Ray-Ban, Walmart, HOKA, Urban Decay, Got2b, and Evanescence. Tokie’s artistic practice explores the relationship between body, memory, technology, and cinematic space, often blending choreography with visual art and installation-based thinking.
Josie Hung - "Faceless Witch"
Josie Hung is a queer, non-binary, Taiwanese American actor based in Los Angeles. Recent credits include: voicing VIP Jennifer in Squid Game S3, playing Amy in the Lifetime Movie Eat, Pray, Lie, and portraying the lead in “Maps” on Hulu (Rising Voices, S2EP8). Josie’s films have screened at Cannes, Tribeca, LA Shorts, and more. Outside of acting, Josie also plays flute, traditional Chinese bamboo flute (dizi and xiao), and taiko drums, and studies Chinese mixed martial arts. Josie loves using the power of storytelling to allow others to feel seen in all their multitudes, for speculative fiction, and to inspire change within our own societies.
Toria Kahni Shi - "Faceless Witch"
Toria Kahni Shi's work explores an Asian ancient-future: a shifting ecology of bodies through poetry, welded sculpture, wearable forms, ceramics and movement, they open thresholds where interior states such as pain, rupture and transformation become sonic and corporeal material. Shaped by backgrounds in biotechnology and psychology and living with chronic autoimmune illness, they approach the body as unstable and relational. Performance becomes a site of adaptation, endurance, and collective repair. Influenced by cyborg theory, posthuman philosophy, science fiction, and drag, they create sonic objects and environments activated through embodied exchange where collaboration is central to their practice.
They hold a Master degree from California Institute of the Arts and bachelor’s degrees in Psychology and Social Behavior and Biology from University of California, Irvine.
Maddie Skowronek - "Faceless Witch"
Maddie Skowronek (she/her) is a dancer and creative originally from the Bay Area, currently based in Los Angeles. She graduated from UCLA with degrees in Communication and Dance, working in commercial and concert spaces as a professional dancer. Alongside performing and teaching, her work is deeply influenced by visual art and painting techniques, as well as athletic training. She is drawn to movement that blends texture and storytelling through both athleticism and artistry.
Nina Higo - "Faceless Witch"
Nina Higo is a Los Angeles based dancer who has studied classical and commercial styles of dance for over 15 years. Nina is half Japanese half Native American and Mexican and enjoys all forms of movement in her daily life.