Rosen
This is the story of a lifetime
ABOUT
Under police suspicion, a locksmith is forced to unlock his closet, revealing inside not the assumed loot but a perfectly unchanged space recalling events from his childhood both beautiful and sad.
Rosen is a locksmith who lives in a small city in China. When he was eight years old, he endured the physical abuse his father committed against his mother, which led to her taking her own life. Twenty years later, Rosen lives with the regret of having lost the only key to the room in which his mother locked herself and suffocated, preventing her rescue by distressed neighbors. Now a professional locksmith, he draws the suspicion of police who take him for a criminal burglarizing homes by leaving them unlocked after his locksmithing. However, all suspicions and secrets will lead back to that fateful lock from his childhood.
YEAR 2019
RUN TIME 13:00 Min
EMAIL celtics18th@163.com Website:
Instagram: _yanboo
CAST & CREW CREDITS
DIRECTED BY Dapeng Yan
DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT
I take inspiration from real events and all the everyday stories that surround us. The most powerful element I see in these stories, which guides me in my filmmaking, is the emotions of the characters.
Good characters provide sustenance for an audience. Rosen suffers a great tragedy in losing his mother, but his longing for a happy family pushes him to face life again and be brave.
Movies capture these human stories in a way that our click-based, fast food culture cannot, and this is the reason I turn back to tradition and pay attention to the shaping of characters.
DIRECTOR BIO
As an undergraduate at the Beijing Film Academy in China, Dapeng Yan worked as a film producer for narrative films. After his graduation, he moved to Baltimore to study filmmaking as a graduate student at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Currently, he brings his international background to the MICA community through his passion and dedication to filmmaking as he completes his original short narrative film Rosen. After earning his MFA degree at MICA, Yan will pursue his entrepreneurship by obtaining a degree in the business of filmmaking.
FILM AND PRODUCTION STILLS
AWARDS
FULL FILM
WHERE ARE THEY NOW?
As an undergraduate at the Beijing Film Academy in China, Dapeng Yan worked as a film producer for narrative films. After his graduation, he moved to Baltimore to study filmmaking as a graduate student at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Currently, he brings his international background to the MICA community through his passion and dedication to filmmaking as he completes his original short narrative film Rosen. After earning his MFA degree at MICA, Yan will pursue his entrepreneurship by obtaining a degree in the business of filmmaking.
(Update provided in May 2020)