Discoveries from Hong Kong SAR China World Cinema

Taking inspiration from 20th-century avant-garde experiments in graphical sound generation, the entire image in O/S functions as an optical soundtrack. Abstract motion becomes sound.

Colors explores the bright and vibrant colors in the Central neighborhood. A glimpse of tension was found between the concrete and lines.

A young boy successfully transforms into Superman, but he can’t find a way to turn back to human.

Performance artist Florence and documentary filmmaker Tze-woon are lovers. They propose to exchange each other’s distressing memories before they met and attempt to re-enact each other’s experience with their own art form. Could they really walk closer towards each other through the process?

Temple Run is an abstract animation about the rural and spiritual heart of Hong Kong. Utilising stop-motion photography, it explores the iconic visual aspects of the city’s temples and nunneries to celebrate Hong Kong’s cultural heritage. Everyday natural and artificial details are made focused, investigating each mundane yet essential building block of Hong Kong.

The Tragic Story of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai

This portrait of a Chinese family centers on the paterfamilias, who at the age of 85 still works his land by hand every day, his wife, who feeds and slaughters the chickens, and one of their sons, who lives in an apartment in the city and spends his days keeping company with his television and a steady flow of alcohol.

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.

It is a 2D experimental animation which is accompanied by the music, “Pulse At The Centre Of Being” composed by Max Cooper. Beautiful things happened inside a human through different combinations of flowers, organs and body parts.

A rent-boy goes on vacation to a remote Hong Kong island with his bestie to forget his ex-lover, but the trip turns haywire when he meets a mysterious stranger evoking the legendary poet, Wat Yue from 2000 years ago!

Since 2017, the cognitive ability of Yin's grandma began to deteriorate. Since then, Yin has become one of the caregivers in her family, taking care of her granny's diet, health and emotion. Before the epidemic, every summer, granny would return to her hometown in Xiamen in the mainland China to gather with her sons and other relatives there. During granny's visit to her hometown, Yin would take this opportunity to get some rest and do her own business. However, after the outbreak, Yin's granny has not returned to Xiamen for more than two years. Now she stays at home almost every day. Her cognitive decline seems to become more serious, and she is more eager to keep her family members close to her, especially Yin.

Death is the end of all humans, but humans can always have choice and all these choices make the meaning of life difference. When Mok was interviewed by Lok, the trenches had been attacked by enemy air force. After surviving in the air raid, the same words changes its meaning. Then two of them choose a different way to die with a different thought.

A Hong Kong short film

Hyacinthine Scar condenses the undigested emotions in me while traveling from Hong Kong to my brother’s wedding in Guam. Presences and gazes of all sorts, to look and to be looked at, repetitive camera work of the hired videographers, the vow that is rehearsed over and over again by the priest, all the uncontrollable clickings of the shutter from all us (including myself), and the endless sightings of different sides of the fragmented Western Pacific. The many spots I visited appear as though they belong to passersby. They are as real as they are dreamy.

A Guan Gong Temple once occupied this Mongkok site where protestors had just been cleared, and it is now the police’s last line of defense. Hilarity ensues when the filmmaker with a tiny handheld camera appears, is stopped and promptly surrounded by the police.

An average of 60,000 people emigrated from Hong Kong each year in early 1990s. An absolutely personal and biased sampling of this diaspora from an insider/outsider perspective just before the 1997 handover. Based on the personal experiences of individuals from Hong Kong in 1990s, Diasporama is an experimental documentary that addresses issues of the diasporic condition. In a series of intimate interviews that explore the relationship of the personal and the political, Yau Ching confronts notions of nationhood, identity, and post-colonialism. Inserting her own face and voice as a form of mediation, the artist herself becomes one of the subjects.

Diane want to get rid of her relationship with Anthony, however her flatmate Joan doesn’t agree with her.

A Drama film made by the Tianyi Movie Company

A young boy in a dark room must face alone a mysterious threat.

Twelve-year-old scuba diver Ema sets out on a quest to find out why corals around the globe are dying, but are somehow more resilient in Hong Kong.

Matthew Leung Ming-hong had been working as a breaking-news reporter for six years in Hong Kong but recently emigrated to the United Kingdom because of concerns about growing restrictions on journalists working in the city. Three Hong Kong media outlets popular with the opposition have folded in just six months, following the introduction of a controversial national security law in Hong Kong on June 30, 2020, raising fears about the future of press freedom in the city. The 29-year-old is starting a new life in Britain’s northern city of Manchester and plans to eventually resume his journalism career in Europe.

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.

The Screen Shaver starts shaving every inch of his hairy body, but saves the stache.

A poetic exploration of the camera's gaze and a family's relationship with the filmmaker's mother.

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

Hong Kong. 2020. A young couple consider their future.

In the aftermath of some catastrophic event, a group of six men and women are all that survive. Each must find their soul mate within the group to ensure the continuance of the species.

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)

Follows the story of a handicapped street musician, Maurice Chan, as he explains what life is like for him in Hong Kong. In the process we go on a journey back in time to the Walled City of Kowloon. Once dubbed the 'sleaziest' place in Hong Kong, it was an island of Chinese sovereignty within the British colony. As a result of a secret political compromise between the Chinese and British Governments the Walled City was destroyed in 1992. This decision resulted in the displacement of the Walled City's 40,000 residents. The documentary gives the story of modern day Hong Kong from a personal viewpoint and shows historical links to a place the authorities preferred to forget.

How would monkeys behave if they had access to social media and the internet? A black monolith falls into the Stone Age world and wakes up a monkey. Through the monolithic screen, will he discover how his species colonized the Earth in a parallel world?

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’.

City life is repetitious and all about work. It always comes with night life and a lot of drinking after work, because people always try to escape from the stress at work, or even from family and relationships. What we call "happy hour" here is the hours we have fun after work - night life. Therefore, if "HAPPY hour" is our night life, then what are those "UNHAPPY hours"?

Through monologue, Talia describes her chronic insomnia. She does not know its cause and spends many painful nights awake. When Talia meets Ah Gum, a goldfish who lives in her eye bags, they develop an interesting relationship.

Complexity theory.

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?

Ping opera film.

A Hong Kong production blending the breathtaking highlights of 1973's Asian-African-Latin American Table Tennis Friendship Invitation Tournament in Peking with the accompanying cultural explosion of songs, music and dances.

Personal moments are lost in film cuttings or disappear into a coloured fog only to suddenly reappear in a new constellation. This is the visual richness of Highview: four, partially overlapping, 16mm images that fully coalesce into a colourful abstract painting, but also often create a narrative as an exploded montage.

In Waziristan, "one of the most dangerous places on earth", Maria Toorpakai defies the Taliban, disguising herself as a boy so she can play sports freely. But when she becomes a rising star, her true identity is revealed and death threats force Maria to leave her country. Undeterred, Maria decides to return facing the danger and to play the sport she loves.

Plastic city suffers from the big chill. The extreme weather conditions prohibits and human existence on the ground surface. An hostel is under this deserted landscape. A doorkeeper of the hostel Kirin is an orphan and nobody knows exactly where he is from. People named him Kirin simply because he earns his life by collecting emptied Kirin beer cans. One day he meets a woman nomad Lanian.

In a park, a girl wants to break up with a boy, but things are not that easy... PARK Tetralogy: Winter is one movement of a four-film cycle. The films are four variations on a single theme. The director, YU Yunsheng, explores the same narrative nucleus through four different seasons and four distinct casts. This is a cinematic experiment on memory, time, and the mutability of human emotions. This is a four-film cycle. Total runtime 332 mins. We recommend viewing sequentially or as individual features.

In a park, a girl wants to break up with a boy, but things are not that easy... PARK Tetralogy: Spring is one movement of a four-film cycle. The films are four variations on a single theme. The director, YU Yunsheng, explores the same narrative nucleus through four different seasons and four distinct casts. This is a cinematic experiment on memory, time, and the mutability of human emotions. This is a four-film cycle. Total runtime 332 mins. We recommend viewing sequentially or as individual features.

In a park, a girl wants to break up with a boy, but things are not that easy... PARK Tetralogy: Autumn is one movement of a four-film cycle. The films are four variations on a single theme. The director, YU Yunsheng, explores the same narrative nucleus through four different seasons and four distinct casts. This is a cinematic experiment on memory, time, and the mutability of human emotions. This is a four-film cycle. Total runtime 332 mins. We recommend viewing sequentially or as individual features.

In 1995, Anna Wu introduced a private bill on Equal Opportunities in Hong Kong covering sexual orientation, gender, age, disability, and family responsibilities. Anson Mak, with fellow activists from Queer Sister, organized playful, creative demonstrations as alternatives to traditional protests. Highlighting a pivotal moment in Hong Kong’s queer and feminist movement, this video documents the group’s actions and their discussions on identity, coming out, activism, and media representation.

Living together is hard, let alone developing affections for each other—this adage applies not just a couple but any two persons. Living modestly and alone with assistance from the domestic helper, the wheelchair-bound mother is only looking forward to her son’s visit. She may dotingly reminisce on her son’s childhood, but also formed a new and unspoken bond with her attentive domestic helper. On an eventful day in which the mother prepares a huge dinner for her absent son, the domestic helper is having worries of her own with her gambling husband. Genuine and understated in their emotions, the two protagonists reveal people’s capacity to foster new affections through togetherness.

A young girl, just released from a reform centre, finds nowhere to go.