This short film was quite an interesting and challenging project for me. During my one year stay in Tianjin, China, (around the same time I created my experimental short film “Born In Captivity”) I was composing a lot of musical scores on my computer. At the time, I hadn’t yet decided how I would eventually make use of those compositions – I simply enjoyed being creative. While writing the piece that would one day lay the foundation for “Left In Ruins”, I already had vivid ideas about a dystopian short film based in China. Considering the circumstances, however, and the fact that I had no equipment that would have allowed me to realize this project, I decided to simply focus on the music and create a short film once I was back in Europe.