Ash Liu
Animator/Artist
Four Quartets (Poetry Video) - 2024
Team: Ash Liu/ Jess Chen/ Boning Yu
My Responsibilities:​
Lead Editor
Camera Assistant​
2D Animator
Project Description：
A short film created based on T. S. Eliot’s Four Quartets, Chapter 2: East Coker, developing its narrative through animation. The black-and-white, rough-textured aesthetic emphasizes the poem’s desolation and quietude.
Music:
Muted version due to copyright restrictions.
Fonts:
Source Han Sans SC
Narrator：
Emma Knoell
FOUR QUARTETS
Chapter 2: East Coker
By T.S. Eliot
In my beginning is my end. In succession
Houses rise and fall, crumble, are extended,
Are removed, destroyed, restored, or in their place
Is an open field, or a factory, or a by-pass.
Old stone to new building, old timber to new fires,
Old fires to ashes, and ashes to the earth
Which is already flesh, fur and faeces,
Bone of man and beast, cornstalk and leaf.
Houses live and die: there is a time for building
And a time for living and for generation
And a time for the wind to break the loosened pane
And to shake the wainscot where the field-mouse trots
And to shake the tattered arras woven with a silent motto.
Prepares for heat and silence.