Director
On stage, senior Cantonese opera singer Sam Chan is bright and well-received. Yet at backstage, how could she deal with her fear and difficulties and a complaint against her regarding National Security Law in Hong Kong?
Director
한 여성이 광장에서 “천 개의 계란 깨뜨리기”라는 제목의 퍼포먼스를 펼치고 있다. 바닥에 수북이 놓인 계란을 하나씩 집어 자신의 몸에 깨트리는 이 퍼포먼스는 행인들의 시선을 잠깐 가로챌 뿐 크게 주목받지 못한다. 여기에 “우리집을 보호하지 못한 나의 무능력 때문에 나 자신에게 계란을 던져 미래 세대를 돕는다”는 의미심장한 문구가 따라붙자 비로소 그 뜻이 전해진다. 앤슨 호이샨 막 감독은 어느 때보다 어려운 정치적 시기를 경험하고 있는 홍콩인들의 근심과 두려움을 세 명의 예술가이자 아이를 기르는 젊은 부모와 나누고자 한다. 우산혁명, 반송환법 시위, 팬데믹, 예술, 육아 그리고 홍콩인들의 희망과 공포가 이들 예술가들의 작업에 흥미롭게 반영된다. 신선한 형식 실험을 도입한 사적이고 사회적인 에세이 필름.
Sound Designer
A poetic, experimental portrait of four Hong Kong women in London working to digitise records of the handover agreement between the United Kingdom and China. Impressionistic and precise, personal and expansive, Cheung's elegant, eloquent work decodes history and how politics are enacted.
Creator
Director
This essay film is about Hong Kong as a place, or rather as a series of places, each with their own series of histories. Mak is after public and private histories, and the ways they commingle, intertwine and sometimes even obliterate each other. Her materials are multiple: she takes what she calls “appropriated archival footage and propaganda films from the 60s and 70s done by the British Hong Kong Government," and cuts, loops, zooms, slows and manipulates them to make striking distortions. To these “official” materials, made strange through video manipulation, Mak adds black-and-white Super 8 video of her own, digitally altered to sometimes look battered and archival, highly worked into a beautifully ghostly, grainy, evanescently visible texture. Images are juxtaposed promiscuously in double and quadruple frames, often paired images of intangibly related material, elegantly matched to be thought provoking as well as to offer visual delight.
Director
This work explores the notion of differences and the impossibilities of clearly stating the importance of differences, regarding sound and images, visual and audio perception, sexual identity, Cantonese, written Chinese and English languages, representation by mass media and by ourselves, and interpretations of street actions.
