Impressions of Hong Kong and Tokyo by day and night shot entirely with a 35mm still camera. Star Ferry is structured between moments of stasis and frenetic movement, drawing out tensions between abrupt passages forward past neon signs and LED advertisements to quiet observations of personal rituals.
Also in this combined programme
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Saint Bathans Repetitions
A series of cinematic portraits expand into a tapestry of glistening natural light and vaporous movement, created via a painstaking process of in-came -
Inside the Machine
Performative optical sound film with three 16mm projectors. Humans and machines merge on screen; this is how cinema works. -
An Empty Threat
Fully handmade 16mm film with deep black blots in various shapes and sizes, sequenced into a variety of visual rhythms. Soundtrack by Stephen Vitiello -
Comfort Stations
A found set of images and sounds with an instruction text make a special type of film. Comfort Stations manifests itself as some sort of…
Film details
- Countries of production
- Hong Kong, USA
- Year
- 2018
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2018
- Length
- 8'
- Medium/Format
- 35mm
