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 dreams.
11'
Hong Kong
IFFR 2020
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
- Production 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
Programme IFFR 2020
Ordinary Heroes: Made in Hong Kong
Hong Kong, the most cinematic city in the world, reveals through its films – old and new – the political, social and economic tensions tearing it apart today.
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A social critique of class-based ultra-dense living conditions; a political critique of anti-democratic politics; and a masterpiece of Hong Kong cinema.
145'
Hong Kong
IFFR 2020
The Cube Phantom
A unique, virtually wordless dance poem: a thrilling pop/art tribute to the power of Hong Kong's indomitable people.
73'
Hong Kong
IFFR 2020