Phyo Nge
Filmmaker
We All Are Ants

PHYO NGE has 4 years of experience with Myanmar TV Commercial and Cooperative as Director of Photography. His works as Producer/ Director of Photography and editor such as “Charred Brick”, “Unsilent Potato”, “For Me And Others Like Me” which were screened in International Documentary Film Festivals. His remarkable works as a cinematographer are a TV documentary titled “Border Boy”, “We Are Nuns” for Inside Lens, NHK World’s new documentary strand, it is specialized in Japan and Asia in 2016 and titled “Dream over Monsoon” for Color of Asia, Southeast Asia Program NHK in 2017. His latest short film as assistant director “Late Blooming in A Lonely Summer Day” which premiered at Winterthur International Film Festival and Clermont-Ferrand IFF. Currently he is working his short documentary project called “We All Are Ants” with his producer Angele de Lorme Panorama Production based in France.

We All Are Ants (short documentary)

Logline : The children, the ants, the life and their dream.

Synopsis : When children enter the ants’s mind, we all become ants.

Type : Documentary

Estimate duration : 10 min

Producer : Angele de Lorme (Panorama Production, Paris)

Director’s statement : I like to shoot the ants movement but a bit far from them. I don’t want to destroy their ways or their moods. The time I am shooting the ants, my nice and nephew join with me. When they see the ants and they are presenting theirselves as Ants. I found it very fascinating by their thought. People always said that children never lie. They always tell the truth. They tell what they hear and what they see. Always come out naturally. I feel that they are saying funny but truth and bitterness of the life. In this film, children’s are the ant and I will get into their imagination. Actually we all are ants.