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One fateful morning, a taotie appeared on my doorstep, and my peaceful life was never the same again. I never imagined that unraveling the mystery of my grandfather and the taoties would uncover a secret that would change my worldview forever.
Safety and Battle Tips for Taxi Drivers
A fantasy short film about robots in the future world.
Sounds turn into abstract images creating a tightly connected audiovisual experience.
A musically synchronised film that draws inspiration from the Portuguese word, “verão” (summer). Rising temperatures within a digital domain, yielding errors, crashes, glitches, and malfunctions.
A short film about mental health
Not a big fan of kids, Tung (uncle) is too busy playing video games to babysit his nephew. Suddenly, his nephew falls from the window…
With the arrival of an outsider, a peasant woman in rural China begins to sense the repressive, patriarchal bindings of her fate. A fruit tree fights to bloom. The Funeral of Spring is a deeply symbolic, intimate and languidly pastoral exploration of a woman’s sense of self in an environment devoid of female autonomy.
Inspired by Bo Burnham's Inside, David Lowry's A Ghost Story and Xavier Dolan's Mommy, this short explores a variety of mental illness (depression, anxiety, PTSD etc...) and the effects of it. With no words spoken, the visuals speak for themselves and showcase the strong emotions of the characters.
What is it like to be queer and Chinese? We met with some people and couples from Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, and Singapore. 5 beautiful and intimate stories that question identities, love, relationships and other personal queer experiences.
A huge glorious rush through Old Town Hong Kong juxtaposing nature and concrete in an endless tunnel.
Taking us from Hong Kong's 1997 handover from British rule into Chinese administrative control, all the way to 2019, when a controversial extradition bill is greeted with massive street protests, this urgent film beds in with Hong Kong's pro-democracy demonstrations, offering a frontline portrait of four young protesters through a year of struggle. We see their hopes for a freer life and feel their fears as the authorities crack down. Pulse-racing scenes bring the viewer to street level, where peaceful protest is met with fury and tear gas. Clear-eyed about the complications and contradictions that come with a movement that changed Hong Kong forever, Hong Kong: City on Fire is a brave document of troubled times.
SHAU Tao is a talented and self respecting prostitute as described in ancient Chinese literature, born in the Tang dynasty - a period in Chinese history known for it\'s open attitude toward women. Nevertheless, even in a period like this, it is still men who control the fate of womankind. During that period, the celebrated poet, YU Jen falls for charms of SHAU Tao. However in the long run, he still does not wish to marry her due to her social status. Having a very high esteem for herself, SHAU Tao prefers to remain single for the rest of her life rather than make sacrifice to accommodate such a situation. The plot switches back and forth from the letters sent between SHAU Tao and YU Jen\'s wife. The film reveals an undercurrent of a homoerotic relationship and the subtle relationship between three of them.
A documentary that explores the lives of people within the Chinese LGBT community. Through a series of intimate interviews with various gay, lesbian and non-binary people from China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, we question identities, love, marriage and other personal queer experiences, while highlighting the constraints or freedoms that each place might bring.
Despite his nice and organised life planned out by his parents, Francis finds himself attracted to Tommy, his carefree former schoolmate. He travels between the restaurant where he works and a city he barely knows, trying to navigate between family pressure and his relationship with Tommy. The two radically different worlds draw closer together until they finally clash.
Chun B, a food delivery boy; Zain, a fashion buyer; Cheng, a high school teacher. They are best friends who met in middle school. After graduation, they lived in a co-rented industrial building in San Po Kong. Two years later, Zain is about to marry his girlfriend and Cheng is going to immigrate with his family. They will all leave Chun B and no longer rent this unit. In this unit, there is a refrigerator that they picked up on the back stairs when they moved in, and it is now broken. After smoking marijuana one night, Chun B insists on getting a funeral for the refrigerator, Zain and Cheng accompany him reluctantly. So they took the refrigerator in the early hours of the morning, looking everywhere for a good place to make a decent funeral...
Wing, a wanderer, returns to Hong Kong to meet Ryan, the owner of the gallery, and they reminisce about the past. Wing is trying to earn a living by painting oil paintings, and once he tries to sell his paintings in Ryan's gallery, but Ryan mistakes him for a delivery boy. When he finds out that Ryan has been helping him, he leaves in a huff. He and Ryan remain friendly in Hong Kong, in keeping with the modern attitude of a casual relationship between a man and a woman.
Hacken Lee Seoul Concert Hall
A perfect symmetry of geometric shapes and symbols set to the lush electronic sounds of Lux Prima.
Views of Hong Kong was produced by Hong Kong Tourist Association to promote Hong Kong and attract foreign visitors, providing a precious record of old Hong Kong..
That night, a lady met a lovely beast, a gigantic slimy cheesy one.
Composed of material from the FBI Vault and the Jonestown Institute, this work consists of several sequences of monologues, confessions, and speeches by members and personalities of the United States and the Soviet Union. By juxtaposing this audio-visual archive with the video game Outlast 2, which was inspired by the 1978 Jonestown mass suicide, the film attempts to expose the abandonment of the quest for a Promised Land by Jonestown members. This abandonment, in the end, was also that of religious socialism.
A father has been fighting for the rights of his daughter since she consumed tainted milk powder, yet fails to be understood. With a focus on the connection between father and daughter, the director returns to her own family, discussing love and growth. All of these efforts started with an experience dated back to her childhood.
A two-channel video installation that uses the metaphor of birth to depict the process immigration (emigration): a daunting and disorienting experience that is nonetheless imbued with hope. Combining footage shot by the artist with his delightful animation work, the synchronized dual-channel videos are connected through a voiceover. The result is a subtle depiction of key junctures in human life.
Animated video clip for the song “Capture ” by the band More Reverb, created mainly with the help of crushed and pressed coal. The music video is dedicated to the idea of plunging into darkness and gaining a thirst for life.
In our life, we are afraid of death and want to catch the most important person or the best time of our life, however, we can’t control that, but we need to face that bravely. The story emphasises the message about the cycle of life, relationship, and connection between family and generation and the concept of Chinese death. The thesis of the story is about growing and finding the meaning of death.
"Ink History" is just a collection of historical pictures without any explanation. These pictures are only momentary records in time and process. They only represent a one-sided witnessing evidence, which is left to be explained with unlimited possibilities. Even so, these pictures in collective memory serve as key frames in the timeline.
After a night of planning and mourning, a storm is brewing at early hours of 1 July, 2019. In face of the absurdity of the government's indoor flag ceremony, protesters question the usefulness of peaceful protest and hope to storm the Legislative Council Complex as a last-ditch effort to ignite change in the movement. As they confront pro-democracy councillors outside the complex, their pent-up anger and despair explode.
Spinning, spinning….familiar imprints on our memories.
The reconstruction of a cup of ice cream soda, an exploration of how ingredients can behave in different ways.
Circles, rectangles, lines, and crosses – the beauty of graphics and minimalism in between positive and negative space.
Dear, Can I Give You a Hand? explores the erotic obsessions and existential panic of a senior citizen with a deadpan narration as touching as it is disturbing.
Sex comedy from Hongkong
Alan and Ben clicked right away at their first encounter. They leave to look for an hourly hotel to have sex but with it being Saturday night, those hotels are busy. As the two looked for hotels and flirted with each other, they wandered around streets and alleys in Hong Kong. From thinking about lust to talking about love, they grew to know each other more, which begs the question: does it really matter to have sex or not at this moment?
A blacksmith is killed and his daughter gets revenge.
Jean finds herself trapped in a surreal space, in which all females wear the same costumes and make-up with zealous and desperate chants of "One husband one wife, one man one woman, and one covenant for a lifetime". She is trapped in Marryland, in which desperate girls devote all their efforts on dating guys. There is only one rule for every girl who wants to leave: get married. The plot to escape with a fellow inmate foiled, with the inmate sent to a fate worse than being in hell: the wasteland called Lonelyland. Will Jean ever escape the tyranny and find her way out of Marryland?
A boy plays with a ball in the corridor. The ball falls by the side of a dead man's body. Her mother picks it up again, gives it back to the boy, and continues her mah-jong game.
Make a living as delivery riders. Making friends and getting along for several years. What kind of "spring" do each of us discover? From the spring of 2022, the end of the fifth wave of the COVID-19 epidemic, to the winter of 2024, from the perspective of these delivery riders, the work experience, mindset shifts and growth of three of them were documented.
As Silili looks for balance, she uses the power of frequency and resonance to begin a magical journey. She dreams of becoming a tree spirit one day. After leaving her mother tree, Silili—just like the other elves—sets out to discover who she wants to be. Along the way, she doesn't realize that her adventure harms a tree, but helps all the plants of an entire island.
Four children from Tin Wah Estate roamed and explored together, weaving four unique childhoods from the same shared experiences.
Two actresses, with an agent to a director audition. The director, the actress, the agent, the director's assistant each of them has a story to tell,Everyone has their own existential puzzles.
The Shadow Lands Yonder is a collaborative research-based work by Hong Kong artist Lee Kai-Chung and Japanese artist Isaji Yugo. The project centers in Manchuria in the early twentieth century, a time of massive population displacement driven by war colonisation as the Qing empire collapsed and a new nation was still in the making. Based on historical records and memoirs, Lee reconstructs a seven-day time period with video and creative writing, re-enacting the psychological changes and conflicts of the refugees during the long journey of escape and repatriation.
Five years ago, a group of form-six girls from a local all-girls school made a graduation video together. Now, the director picks up her camera again to document the friendships they shared back then. Can they keep the promise they made - to stay best friends forever?
Sun Chengjie was implicated because of the falsehood of his brother Sun Chengzhong. He was reluctant to pursue the eunuch Wei Zhongxian, so he took his family to hide in Lushan, changed his name to Sun Qian, and set up a hall to teach apprentices. Among them, the love, friendship and patriotism between people, ghosts and foxes are all together here. In the play, there are human beings who do not seek progress, and there are also fox fairies who are dedicated to learning, highlighting the weaknesses of human nature. It is said that people and foxes are not representatives of loyalty and treachery.
Ten year old Sze's father is on a business trip currently. Just when her father returns to Hong Kong, her mother sends her to auntie’s home - a remote house by the sea. Auntie wakes up at midnight, only finds that Sze has gone missing.
Scottish police detective and his alleged fatal affair with a young Chinese man. This sets off an investigation that threatens to rock the moral foundation of the Hong Kong Law Enforcement and Justice Department in the 1980s. Filmmaker David Chow takes us into the lives of present-day Hong Kong gay men to reveal their hidden aspirations and desires. He tracks down gay couples, a lovelorn painter, a taxi driver, activists, radical politicians, sociologists, sexologists, philosophers, and political analysts.Filming in pick-up joints, bars and saunas, he reveals a gay community forced underground by marginalization, criminalization, and discrimination. Chow uncovers how the conservative Hong Kong establishment is reluctant to improve the rights of the local gay community.
When a revised normal has arrived, it indicates that the past may be destined to be forgotten. 'Archiving The Scene' revisits the 2019-2020 Hong Kong protests, when government actions erased thoughts and identity from people. Adopts the rhythm of painting tutorial, this work blends Chun-Yao's press photography with Ming's minimalist research. Through distinct disciplinary perspectives, they carry the scenes that have vanished from days gone by.