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30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025

Rita Hui Nga Shu

Rita HUI NGA SHU is a video artist, teacher and filmmaker from Hong Kong. In 2004 she received a Master’s degree in Women’s Studies from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and a Master of Fine Art from Hong Kong Art School and RMIT University in Australia in 2007. She made her first short, Ah Ming, in 1996. She directed several more short films, which screened at festivals around the world, before making her feature film debut, Dead Slowly (2009), which premiered at Busan International Film Festival. She produced the film through Rabbit Travelogue, which she founded in 2007. Pseudo Secular was selected as the opening film of the 2016 South Taiwan Film Festival. Decameron (2021) is her first documentary feature, with its world premiere at IFFR.

Filmography

Ah Ming (1996, short), Subway (1997, short), She Makes Me Wanna Die (1998), short), Invisible City (Wall) (1998, short), Alice in the Wonderland (1999, short), Chionanthus Retusus (2001, short), IdoLetHerMyHeadHave (2004, short), Red Riding Hood (2005, short), Red (2006, instal), Dead Slowly (2009), Wave (2010, short), Two Cases (2011, instal), New Age in Blue (2011, short), Lau fung shan (2012, short), Keening Woman (2013), Elegy (2014, short), Pseudo Secular (2016), In the Wild (2017), Project Next Wave (2020, short), Decameron (2021, doc)

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Rita Hui Nga Shu at IFFR

  • Decameron

    The 2019 Hong Kong protests resonate throughout this critical visual essay on that metropolis, combining fiction, historical sources with contemporary

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