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What do nostalgia for and dreams of a future look like in Hong Kong, a place that has always been in a state of impermanence, taking on chameleon-like identities? The makers of these shorts examine the urgent and emergent in a city in flux.
In this program
An Invitation
Directed by: Hao Zhao, Yeung Tung | 13 mins
A boy from mainland China visits his estranged father in Hong Kong to apply for a permanent identity card. In response, the father asks him to consider going to school there.
Never Rest/Unrest
Directed by: Tiffany Sia | 28 mins
How do you consume the disintegration of a society from afar? Often, in the same ways as locals do—through online and social media. Deliberately unsubtitled, images interrogate our cultural proximity to—and distance from—Hong Kong.
force
Directed by: Jennie MaryTai Liu, Simon Liu | 9 mins
A parable about control and an emanant vision of a changing people and place. Mesmerizing images coupled with public relations language from law enforcement agencies lend this short a special resonance in a post-protest setting.
She Leaves
Directed by: Chu Hoi Ying | 11 mins
A young woman’s retired parents want to leave Hong Kong, but their daughter is hesitant to join them because she is in a secret relationship with a married man, who has trouble imagining his own future—with or without her.
The Night
Directed by: Tsai Ming-liang | 19 mins
Director Tsai Ming-liang films Hong Kong by night, through empty passageways shimmering with nocturnal bustle and ghostly reverberations. A song from the past fills the dead air: “The beautiful night is slipping away.”
