‘Walk like a Duck’ (2023) revisits long-forgotten memories of my childhood as an investigation on why I walk like a duck. Manifesting my premature internal world in response to the overwhelming external world, these memories open a kaleidoscopic line of questioning into the simplistic and fantastical experiences of a child learning to cope. Growing into a newly-realised story-teller, the film is not a brooding deep-dive into psychological distress but a way of approaching the past by anchoring myself to what has always come naturally to me: curiosity, analysis…and a touch of imaginative humour.
I absolutely refuse to believe that all our stories will ever be is to dominate. Contradicting the anthropological history of the Hero’s Journey, this story aims to provide a much-needed alternative to this narrative. What happens to a story when there is not necessarily a hero, not necessarily a villain, and not necessarily a conflict?
