Chen Ma

The Fish Says is a mixed-media stop motion about a poem, a poem of a fish going home that I wrote it for that misty sea in my dream. When I was five, I moved to a Chinese seaside city named Dalian. That was the first time I saw the ocean in real life. The sea of Dalian is not perfect; its sand is not soft, its air smells salty and it is always shrouded by a thick mist. It was charming enough for a young child though.

I left that city in 2008, but from time to time I experience dreams of that city as if the city is calling me to go home. So in this poem, I tried to visualise those surreal dreams that gently tickled my buried memory of Dalian.