The Zen-Mind Filmmaking approach will embrace minimalism, co-creation, and intuition, allowing room for inventiveness and intuition in storytelling. The purpose of the Zen-Mind experiment is not to attain any sort of spiritual awakening but to investigate if filmmaking can be approached with a Zen Mindset. Can filmmaking can be distilled to its essence - as an artistic practice / a storytelling art fom, where practice can happen without excessive entanglements (financing, obligations, hustle). 

The experiment involves making a film / telling a story under minimalist conditions, 4 hour shoot, 4 hour edit, minimal preparation with room for failure. Completed works will be compiled and presented as an experimental omnibus film in festivals. 

We are currently on the look out for Research Volunteers / Assistants (4 hours commitment) - Actors, Filmmakers and Location in January 2022. 

Connect with the researcher here: https://forms.gle/bNb4i6ZH2A5A2TSK8

About the Researcher 

Tzang Merwyn Tong is an arts educator and underground film director known for award winning offbeat films often set in surreal worlds. An alumna of Berlin Talent Campus, Tzang is the writer/director/ producer of Singapore’s first dystopian feature film, Faeryville, which made its world premiere in Los Angeles and was selected to be the Asian closing night film of the Central European Film Festival Timisoara in Romania to celebrate 30 years since the Romanian Revolution.

His other films (V1k1, e'Tzaintes, A Wicked Tale) have travelled to international acclaim and full house crowds in film festivals in Rotterdam, Montreal, Berlin, Potsdam, Munich, Tel Aviv, Lund, Leeds and has enjoyed a brief cult following in underground film circuits. He is currently an educator doing his MA in Arts Pedagogy and Practice with LASALLE in partnership with Goldsmiths University in the UK. 

The Zen-Mind Filmmaking Manifesto is written and available upon request.