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
“With images we'll declare to the world our desire for freedom. With our bodies we'll express our passion for Hong Kong for the past century.”
The Cube Phantom is unlike any Hong Kong film you've seen: a virtually wordless dance poem in ten parts, it explores the exultation and the tragedy of the city in ten different site-specific choreographed sequences. Naked except for thick chalky paint, three dancers struggle to move: are they prisoners, ghosts, corpses, souls in torment? Sequences inspired by parkour and hip hop bound through waterways of Tai O and Mid Levels' slopes. A stark battle in a vast expressionistic sewer is followed by a feral man in a cage sequence inspired by Cageman (also in this series).
Filmmaker Alan Lau, choreographer Jordann de Santis, composer Anthony Cheng and a troupe of fearless, expressive dancers have created a thrilling, visceral pop/art tribute to the power of Hong Kong's indomitable people.
Also see Talk: Ordinary Heroes.
- Director
- Alan Lau
- Premiere
- World premiere
- Country of production
- Hong Kong
- Year
- 2020
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2020
- Length
- 73'
- Medium
- DCP
- Language
- English
- Producers
- Peter Yam, Shuk Fong Chong, Min Bahadur Bham
- Production Companies
- Zocalo Cultural Development Ltd., Shooney Films Pvt. Ltd.
- Sales
- Blue Island Production Company
- Screenplay
- Alan Lau
- Cinematography
- Wong Shek-keung , Jordann De Santis
- Editor
- Bill Yip, Alan Lau
- Production Design
- Ng Siu-wai
- Sound Design
- Antony Cheng
- Music
- Antony Cheng
- Cast
- Tung Chung-can , Chan Wing-yip
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.
Read more about this programmeCageman
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