Wong Ping’s Fables 2
Behind its retro-pop colours and video game sound effects, Wong Ping’s animated fables unpeel the social fabric of Hong Kong to expose the chilling pains endured by a society inching towards hyper-consumerism and a police state. Completed before the pro-democracy protests of 2019, the dark turns taken in the lives of an ex-activist vegetarian cow and a three-headed rabbit show what may have caused tensions to boil over.
Special Mention Ammodo Tiger Short Competition 2020.
Also in this combined programme
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Apparition
The past returns as a ghostly image: a photograph hidden by light is made visible through the gentle touch of hands. -
Sayōnara
Could saying goodbye cure the feeling of being lost? An intimate exploration of the complexity of an individual. -
the names have changed, including my own and truths have been altered
Digging into personal, colonial and televisual archives, Onyeka Igwe trudges through the muddled biography of her grandfather.
Film details
- Country of production
- Hong Kong
- Year
- 2019
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2020
- Length
- 13'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
