Rehearsal of the Futures: Police Training Exercises

  • 18'
  • Hong Kong
  • 2018

The motions and gestures of military riot police, slowed down while performed by dancers, are surprisingly beautiful. Menace and violence estranged from context and time looks eerily strange, and all too familiar. In this gallery piece, Isaac Chong Wai somehow anticipates, a year early, key images of the Hong Kong protests.

Screens after Lost in the Fumes.

Director
Isaac Chong Wai
Premiere
World premiere (festival)
Country of production
Hong Kong
Year
2018
Festival Edition
IFFR 2020
Length
18'
Medium
Digital
Language
no dialogue
Production Company
M+
Sales
Blindspot and Zilberman Galleries
Editor
Isaac Chong Wai
Sound Design
Nobutaka Shomura
Cast
Marah Arcilla, Sylvie Cox, Calvin Tak Chi Ngan, Ong Tze Shen
Director
Isaac Chong Wai
Premiere
World premiere (festival)
Country of production
Hong Kong
Year
2018
Festival Edition
IFFR 2020
Length
18'
Medium
Digital
Language
no dialogue
Production Company
M+
Sales
Blindspot and Zilberman Galleries
Editor
Isaac Chong Wai
Sound Design
Nobutaka Shomura
Cast
Marah Arcilla, Sylvie Cox, Calvin Tak Chi Ngan, Ong Tze Shen