Miss Tobacco’s Manuscript

Short Film

00:15:57

2017 (filming, score) & 2024 (final editing)

Chinese (dialogue), Italian (Music lyrics), English (subtitle)

IMDb:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt33606476

Release date & location:

August 1-10, 2025;

Regal UA Midway (Theater 2),

108-22 Queens Blvd, Forest Hills, NY 11375, United States

Award:

Best Experimental/Animation/Music Video (Nomination),

Festival of Cinema NYC, 2025

Synopsis:

The story begins with a man reading a novel. One morning, he wakes up struggling to recall what happened the night before. He believes he met a female writer and discussed her manuscript, but upon waking, he can’t confirm if the encounter was real. As the day unfolds, he is haunted by fleeting visions of the woman and becomes obsessed with recovering his lost memory. The effects of a mysterious hangover blur the line between imagination and reality. Gradually, a deeper truth begins to surface—not to him, but to the audience: he is a fictional character within the woman’s novel, his thoughts and actions subject to her revisions. As she rewrites, his reality shifts, scenes repeat, and his sense of self begins to dissolve.