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

EMAIL     xcui01@mica.edu

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)