Home, and a Distant Archive
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.
Also see Talk: Ordinary Heroes.
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Glory to Hong Kong (canto)
A remixed version of the popular Hong Kong resistance anthem in Cantonese opera style. Local traditional and contemporary culture in brilliant fusion. -
Glory to Hong Kong (orchestral)
The original video by the Black Blorchestra of the crowd-sourced people’s resistance anthem of Hong Kong. -
Tell Me What 7 You Say
Pop star Charmaine Fong’s catchy, searingly angry protest song was released during the demonstrations: profane and politically risky. -
Kin’s Hair
Hong Kong’s story is a history of loss, embodied (or rather disembodied) in the hairs on Kin’s head, which fall out one by one. -
Age of Valiant
HK’s valiant ‘frontliners’ are masked, black-clad youth unafraid to use violence against their police and government. Hear their voices, hopes, and dr -
Last Night in Sham Shui Po
Protestors, cops, a night street in Sham Shui Po, a single slow-motion take, plus Louis Armstrong. -
What’s Next
An idealistic democrat faces off against a triad-aligned local politician in a compact, sophisticate drama based on a real Hong Kong 2019 incident.
Film details
- Productielanden
- Hong Kong, Netherlands
- Jaar
- 2020
- Festivaleditie
- IFFR 2020
- Lengte
- 24'
- Medium/Formaat
- DCP
