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Siufung attempts to formulate transgender subjectivity by retelling his own gender struggle through poetry and experimental video.

During the epidemic of COVID-19, many people are facing the crisis of unemployment. Internet enterprises suffer heavy losses and decide to fire millions of programmers. And these companies use the word "Graduation" instead of "Layoff".

A cramped environment with all kinds of restrictions shapes Hong Kong into a square city. Perhaps life is impoverished, oppressive, and the actuality is being difficult to change. Yet, Bong hasn't lost his imagination of birds soaring high in the sky, and has still retained his longing for wonderful things.

Documentary on Professor Situ Zhaodun of the Beijing Film Academy

In the community office of a residential building in Beijing, a senior citizen choir comes together every Thursday singing Mongolian songs without any accompaniment. Thoese eventful days spent in Inner Mongolia have left enduring memories to them…

I like to sneak pictures of ladies with mobile phone, yet I have never imagined that the lady will appear before my eyes in such an inconceivable way.

A visual expression of a future where we lose resources that we have been taking for granted.

Lumen is a 2D animation that combines digital paint with collage. It is about a defective light bulb being an outcast in the factory. It fails to be fixed so it is discarded into the woods. Other perfect light bulbs are doing their jobs in keeping the city bright, while the "abnormal" and "imperfect" light bulb finds a unique way to shine and its purpose in life.

A filmed production of Titus, told through dance and speech.

A lonely girl thinks about her past with her boyfriend.

The Price of Justice is a documentary film that follows four women as they try to pursue cases against their former employers. Taken into kafkaesque circumstances, these workers spend their days in waiting rooms, long queues and tribunals in a frustrating attempt to get access to justice. This documentary is my latest collaboration with Rights Exposure for Hong Kong Federation of Domestic Workers and has the support of the International Labour Organisation.

A group of men are kidnapped by a psychopath who alerts them that they are to tell him the code to a briefcase full of cash by the time he finishes 20 cigarettes or face death. Absurdity ensues.

An addicted video gamer discovers something shocking about himself.

In Hong Kong, a stranger wanders and films frantically monologuing next to her camera. Through the windows of the buildings she penetrates the intimacy of the flats, in the streets she lingers over unknown faces, swallowed by the city she seeks to record what exceeds her. It’s after founding a kaleidoscope on the ground that she meets the man with tattoos - he is haunted by a fight.

Tugging Diary documents a footbridge over a year between August 2019 to January 2021. Due to social unrest and the uncertainty of various immediate happenings, both the internet and physical spaces act as critical communication platforms of its own during this period. As such, information can be circulated in the community more widely and rapidly outside of the existing mainstream media. As time goes by, these materials are continuously altered, some were renewed, while the others were removed, covered with paint, or overlaid by other information.

Armed with only one word - Teset - and fighting for the survival of his test scores, Josh journeys through a twilight world of time travel on a mission to save his grades.

Created in quarantine. How to turn a stressful situation into something playful.

A day in the life of a building. Busy people, curiosity and incomprehension.

We can see things differently when we see things from different angles.

Harmony (n.) a consistent, orderly, or pleasing arrangement of parts; congruity. Forgive my nerves— rattling of my subjective coloring and inverted subjects! With a focus on my affinity for the ephemeral, this is in part a remix of left over footage shot and then re-printed on a now defunct and sorely missed Kodak film stock, 7285. A record of my trudging foray into Step-Printing and the indulgence of rediscovering old scraps of images. Conversely, I applied the techniques of Richard Tuohy’s Chromaflex process to weld together then shred apart film scraps guided by an electric pleasure for a visual clash and at moments, harmony. (Simon Liu)

Election is about the Legislative Council Election in 2004, focused on three geographical constituencies: Hong Kong Island, Kowloon East and the New Territories East. The film follows various activities, from the submission of candidacy, pledge ceremonies, interviews with candidates to lobbying, debate at forums, voting and vote counting, etc. The film reflects the problems Hong Kong faces on the road to democracy and different facets of Hong Kong politics.

I have lost my interest in any kind of social activities after my nose left me.

Stop Peeping tells the story of a man who repeatedly breaks into his neighbors apartment, so he can wring out her sweaty clothes to make ice lollies. Amusing, perverse and...refreshing?

After being away from home for quite some time, Wong returns to his old stomping grounds to see some of his friends, only to find that a band of kung fu-trained thugs has a serious bone to pick with him and his companions. When the group tries to attack Wong and his buddies, they quickly learn that they're messing with the wrong man, as Wong, too, is a skilled martial artist. Whose expertise will prevail in this battle for honor?

Essentially a remake of Robocop, with a less cohesive plot, a female Robocop, and more slapstick humor.

Disguised as a man, Hua Mulan takes her father's place in the army. After stopping a conflict between officers, she helps lead the army to victory against external enemies. After twelve years of service, Mulan returns home in triumph, revealing her true identity as a woman.

Deranged mind Joe Choi gives us a blood red comedy for the stoner in all of us! Set up in the vein of Low Budget Pictures or a Troma flick this SOV trashterpiece delivers the laughs and the bloodshed! No more shitty shark movies, it's time to make a good one!

The story follows a gray bear who ventures from the forest searching for a more fulfilling life in the city. She makes a concerted effort to imitate human actions and conceal her true self, worried about being uncovered. One day, a small bee flies into her house, unknowingly marking the beginning of her journey to escape her struggles.

This video juxtaposes scholar Ackbar ABBAS’s text on identity politics with images of Hong Kong throughout the decades before the 1997 handover, including the 1967 riots and the 1989 parade in support of the Tiananmen Square protesters. As quoted from the narration, ‘Only something that's about to disappear becomes an image’.

Parco writes a plea letter for his younger brother Rico, arrested for his role in the 2019 Hong Kong protests. The process stirs memories of Parco’s own 2014 arrest and their emotional distance. Before Rico’s sentence, the brothers share a rare moment of connection and plan to document prison life. Parco moves abroad before Rico’s release. The family sells their home, preparing to emigrate. On a final trip to Japan, Rico briefly experiences freedom, while Parco is wrongly arrested. As the family prepares to leave Hong Kong, Parco reads his letter one last time, confronting questions of fear, freedom, and identity—as a Hongkonger and a brother.

A teenage girl in Hong Kong meets her online friend and crush for the first time, and comes face to face with her own social awkwardness while preparing for the meeting.

A 1929 Bai Da Film Company production about a trading post in a mountainous region where a young girl attempts to boldly avenge her father.

From South Lake Park to Hongqi Street is a dual-channel essay film based on the inquiry “What is Manchukuo Film Association”, which threads together the spaces, characters and stories related to the Manchukuo Film Association, connected by the artist’s voiceover narration. These stories comprise of a myriad of protagonists, including the Manchukuo actress-singer Li Xianglan (Yoshiko Yamaguchi), personnel working in the Manchukuo film association and Changchun Film Group Corporation, scholars of Sino-Japanese films etc. Through these narratives, the artist attempts to insert answers into the blanks that History indifferently or haphazardly left out.

A film produced in collaboration with Beijing-based collaborator Yuan Yuan which interweaves 16mm film and DV video with textual intertitles and fragments of voice-over narration. Merging aspects of visionary cinema, landscape film and home movie, the film combines footage shot in Manhattan Chinatown, Hong Kong, and Beijing into an intimate reflection on the act of physical and spiritual passage between a series of pressurised and rapidly shifting temporalities governed by different myths of order.

Director Yau Ching has been conducting media production workshops in juvenile reform and welfare institutes in Hong Kong, Macau and Sapporo, Japan for seven years. With simple video recording techniques, the teenagers make this video letter to talk about love, dream, idols and ups and downs in their lives. Are you sick of those pretending high school dramas? Try to take a look at this sincere documentation of youthhood. To get your taken-for-granted values reflected, to be touched by their truthful reveals without any sensational gimmick, and most importantly, to recall what we went through when we were young, and the ways we could be alive…

When a group of four children discovers a mysterious phenomenon in the form of a claw machine that can grant wishes, they start to play around with it, unaware that everything comes at a steep price.

Tangled spirals, rapid encounters, a quiet war between the vertical and the horizontal: Simon Liu’s Refuse Room captures Hong Kong’s architectural densities and lurid fluorescence through shadows, graffiti, and detritus, surfacing the tense and dizzying atmospheres of a city in anxious slumber, caught between fragmentation and solidarity.

A young girl Pui and her father live together leaning on each other for support, but they still feel lonely and insecure. At the same time, the young girl is haunted by the death of her mother. After small accidents, she magically starts to walks into an Another World over and over again, where memories and realities intertwined, but she has no idea whether it’s a dreamworld, or a ghost land.

A quiet study of an afternoon. In the soft light of Room 1914, the film captures the gentle rhythms of a family: the hum of a fan, the pouring of water, and the dignity of daily labor. A poetic observation of life's textures.

A rebellious Chinese artist faces challenges from the police, art dealers, and his peers as a documentary film maker records his process.

Law Siufung is a professional bodybuilder, a passionate advocate for queer rights in Hong Kong, and a PhD candidate who has dedicated their life to challenging societal norms and binaries. This documentary follows Siufung's journey as they reflect on their experiences in Hong Kong and embark on a new chapter in the United States, continuing their fight to build a more inclusive and accepting society for all. As a genderfluid individual, poet, and intellectual with a deep interest in Buddhist philosophy, Siufung’s story is one of resilience and defiance. Director Jean-Luc, who has spent 15 years in Asia producing commercials and TV shows for major international clients, uses his expertise to explore the complexities of identity and the ongoing struggle for acceptance in this compelling and deeply personal narrative.

A pair of brother and sister spends a night without adult supervision. All is possible under the blue moon.

Translating and encapsulating the director's personal childhood experiences as well as past lived experiences, You build a home in my mind comprises of playground rides, the everyday scenery outside the window of the artist's studio, and unique, special objects recalled from memories—weaving together a melody that lures the viewers to roam and wander. As the boat navigates between reality and imagination, resembling a journey of constant loss and persistent search, the scenes become slightly different when they reappear, these scenes alluding to the repetitiveness and uncertainty of life.

With the abundance of antiques and culture in Jordan, you can only see so much of the essence of traditional craftsmanship in a blink of an eye. This film showcases the beauty of old Hong Kong, all in a glimpse of textiles, flasks, paintings and statuettes.

A short film about mental health

Responding to a curated cocktail of positive, harmonious keywords ("pacifism," "empathy," "sisterhood," etc.), Emily Dickinson's phrase "I many times thought Peace had come," and assorted other artistic input, this film is entirely co-created with artificial intelligence.

In a person’s life, what is most moving is often the indescribable feeling in one’s heart. Beyond has moved many people. More than a decade has passed, and people have changed, but fans still remember Beyond’s works. There is no gorgeous packaging or pretentious attitude, but every song can touch people’s hearts.

Three passionate Hong Kongers strive to disrupt the textile and recycling industries by innovating sustainable solutions to change mindsets and transition towards a circular economy before the landfills overflow.