The Formation of a Cloud

(2020), single channel cine-essay, Super 8 and digital
dir. Jenn Tran | 06”13’ | AUSTRALIA 

BFA Graduate Film

Depicted through a mix of stop-motion animation and super-8 film, The Formation of a Cloud revisits a distant and seemingly innocent childhood memory of a ford crossing located in the western suburbs of Melbourne.

A meditative journey of revisitation and discovery, the short film maps the past through four handmade dioramas, chronicling memory through the gazes of place, family and beginings and endings, just like the formations of clouds.


Director, Writer: Jenn Tran
Voice Over: Vicky Lam
Super 8 Camera Operator: Veronica Charmont
Composer, Sound Designer: Mara Schwerdtfeger
Supervising Producers: Robert Stephenson, Paul Fletcher
Online Edit: Andrew Conell
Sound Mix: Ant Bohun

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I respectfully acknowledge the traditional custodians of this land - the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung People of the Kulin Nation, their spirits, ancestors, elders and community members past and present.
Always was, always will be, Aboriginal Land. 


© Jenn Tran 2026