This short film The Soliloquist uses a commentary (subtitles)to narrate the story, as if there is a person talking about a small incident that happened to him. The first-person narrator tells the story subjectively. The animation stresses the visual presentation of the pictorial style,composition,drawing and images,and uses camera movement to replace jump cuts and simulate the effect of turning a page while reading a picture book.Applying the unedited single shot technique of animations,it moves away from the usual format of animation shorts and manifests an alternative narrative style. The work has the artist's own misfortunes in love as its starting point and develops into a surrealistic story.Through the visual style design,it gives commonplace feelings a different interpretation and creates an individual style.The open ending leaves the audience with more room for imagination. In terms of the creative concept,I applied the self-analytic spirit of“private novels”to animation. The story is told by a first-person narrator in subtitles, as if it was me talking about something that happened to me, incorporating a slice of my experience into the plot. The images express emotional trauma and inner turmoil. The ending does not offer any moral, and seems more like a self-confession because of the inability of redemption. Manifesting a lopsided and floating state, it seeks an answer that neither the protagonist nor the audience knows. Using animation as the form of new media art,I retain the narrative and images,trying to discover and explore the hidden feelings and self within me. Transforming inner feelings into animation with sound and images,the work explores my life experiences and seeks inner meanings. With this work,I hope to show the considerations and limitations in making animations independent of commercial release.By employing a more private,intimate and auteur point of view,I wish to enhance the internal value and independent spirit of animation as a form of artistic creation. (Ma Kuang Pei)