Northwest of Taiwan lies Mazu, an archipelago of 19 small islands. On the main one, a frog god called “Marshal Ironclad” is adulated by the inhabitants of a village called Chin-Pi. According to the legends, the divinity was born in 1400 BC in a pond in Southwest China. It then became the region’s protective deity and was worshipped in a temple on Mount Wu-Yi. After the Cultural Revolution, it is said, it found refuge among the inhabitants of Mazu.

Based essentially on this legend, my work is made up two parts. The first comprises a documentary shot in a movement capture studio. It features a very unusual ceremony which enables me to communicate with the frog god and talk with him so as to find out the original configuration of the temple dedicated to him which was destroyed during the Cultural Revolution. The second part of the film was made at the same time as the first, but developed using the movement captures of the god on his palanquin. These movements will be assembled with the 3D recreation of the temple to create an animation film. The work thus combines a documentary and a 3D animation. It examines a historical and political reality from an artistic viewpoint.