The most beautiful and entrancing animated film I saw this year — a five-minute stop-motion short called “The Dying World,” directed by 27-year-old artist, actress, model, and one-time reality TV star Lauren Tsai — is the story of an idea that no one wants. And it began with an idea that Tsai had always been afraid no one wanted: a vision of herself that didn’t align with the one she was assigned to fulfill.

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