Hear No Evil
The day has eyes, the night has ears.
ABOUT
A motel owner who pretends to be deaf secretly sells private videos of his guests, until
one day a killer discovers one of the cameras, revealing that the owner has recorded his
crime. The killer sneaks into the owner’s room to delete the video, only to find that the
owner has backed up the video to protect himself. After a series of sadistic turns, only
one man will make it out alive.
YEAR 2020
RUN TIME 18:00 Min
CAST & CREW CREDITS
DIRECTOR Xuan Cui
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Crystal Cheng
PRODUCED BY Raowenna Li
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Peng Zeng | Xiangxu Kong
GAFFER Jiuling Ren
DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT
If you have ever heard about the three wise monkeys or the expression “curiosity killed
the cat, then you already know the basic human story that drives this film. Using dark
humor in the style of the Coen brothers and Quentin Tarantino, Hear No Evil dwells in
the boundaries among people where temptations beckon and secrets hide. All chaos
must be quelled, all bad people punished. n Eastern Cinema, we are accustomed to
Karma endings, but does it truly exist?
DIRECTOR BIO
Xuan Cui is an artist, film director, and cinematographer. His short film Wake Up won the Original Vision Award from the Chinese Bureau of Education in 2016 for the category My Concert Hall. He holds a BFA in television directing from the Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications and is currently pursuing an MFA in filmmaking at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA).
FILM AND PRODUCTION STILLS
AWARDS
FULL FILM
DIRECTOR BIO
Xuan Cui is an artist, film director, and cinematographer. His short film Wake Up won the Original Vision Award from the Chinese Bureau of Education in 2016 for the category My Concert Hall. He holds a BFA in television directing from the Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications and is currently pursuing an MFA in filmmaking at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA).
(Update provided in May 2020)