all memories were once strange

Shorts, Experimental

21 Sept 2025 (Sun)

6pm, Close Up Cinema

Runtime: 70’

This programme brings together seven works by pioneering and emerging Hong Kong video artists, spanning from 1990 to 2025. They uncover hybrid terrains of memory, erasure, representation and vanishing. These works blur the boundaries between archive and affect, collective history and personal reverie—disrupting binaries such as coloniser/colonised, native/foreign, original/translated. Moving across eras of social unrest, global capitalism, technological flux, and linguistic hybridity, memory surfaces in fractured, shifting patterns where meaning drifts, overlaps, and re-emerges.

Presented in partnership with Hong Kong Action Archives.

With thanks to Phoenix Ngo Chun Tse.