Simon Liu
Simon LIU (1987) grew up in Hong Kong and Stoke-on-Trent in the UK. In 2006, he moved to New York to study Film and Television Production at Tisch School of the Arts, and he currently works as a director in Brooklyn. There, he creates short films and 16mm projection works which have been shown at IFFR, Toronto IFF, BFI London IFF, Edinburgh IFF, Centre Pompidou in Paris and Werkstatt der Kulturen in Berlin. His short E-Ticket (2019) was nominated for a Tiger Award, as well as the Short Film Grand Jury Prize at Sundance. Signal 8 (2019) had its international premiere at IFFR 2020.
Filmography
(all short) Flyer Boy (2009), Ditchwork (2012), Afternoon In (2014), Donkey Riding (2015), Shuffle Cove (2015), Harbour City (2016), Sneyd Green (2016), Highview (2017), Cluster Click City Sundays (2017), Fallen Arches (2018), Star Ferry (2018), E-Ticket (2019), Signal 8 (2019), Happy Valley (2020), Force (2020)
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Simon Liu op IFFR
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Happy Valley
Simon Liu | 12' | Hong Kong | International premiere
The protests in Hong Kong through the eyes of an exceptional filmmaker. Little things make major changes tangible. -
E-Ticket
Simon Liu | 13' | Hong Kong | World premiere
Frantic re-cataloguing of a personal archive and a vehicle for the re-birth of forgotten images in 35mm still photographs, obsessively tape-spliced to -
Signal 8
Simon Liu | 15' | Hong Kong | International premiere
A prologue to Hong Kong’s unrest, this 16mm film captures the colour, light, texture and chaos of a city before civil protest. -
Highview
Simon Liu | 20' | Hong Kong | International premiere
Highview consists of four, partially overlapping, 16mm images that fully coalesce into a colourful abstract painting, but also often create a nar -
Harbour City
Simon Liu | 14' | Hong Kong | International premiere
Hong Kong’s hyperactive fish market in overwhelming colours. Every screening is unique as projection requires two 16mm projectors. -
Star Ferry
Simon Liu | 8' | Hong Kong | World premiere
Time is condensed in 35mm imagery of the metropolises Hong Kong and Tokyo, melding together impressions of city life by day and night.