Simon Liu | IFFR

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 at IFFR

Harbour City

Simon Liu

14'
Hong Kong

IFFR 2016

Highview

Simon Liu

IFFR 2017

Star Ferry

Simon Liu

8'
Hong Kong

IFFR 2018

E-Ticket

Frantic re-cataloguing of a personal archive and a vehicle for the re-birth of forgotten images in 35mm still photographs, obsessively tape-spliced together in evolving rhythmic patterns.

Simon Liu

13'
Hong Kong

IFFR 2019

Signal 8

A prologue to Hong Kong's unrest, this 16mm film captures the colour, light, texture and chaos of a city before civil protest.

Simon Liu

15'
Hong Kong

IFFR 2020

Happy Valley

The protests in Hong Kong through the eyes of an exceptional filmmaker. Little things make major changes tangible.

Simon Liu

12'
Hong Kong

IFFR 2021