Shorts Compilation: Multiple Realities 短片選輯：多重現實
2022 / 03 / 26 (Sat) - 1:45 PM
Genesis Cinema, London
Wong Ping’s Fables 1 黃炳寓言（一）
Hong Kong / 2018 / Colour /13mins
In Cantonese with Chinese & English subtitles
Dir. WONG PING
Wong Ping swung by, took three pisses before gently pressing your head down with his right foot, to bestow you with a closer look at your reflection from the piss.
*Children content, adult please view with children’s company.
**The plants and animals died one after another after the video production. The cause was unknown.
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Wong Ping was born in the 80s in Hong Kong. A devout atheist. An optimistic pessimist. A slow living fast food waiter. A weekend vegetarian. Your silent neighbour.
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Ammodo Tiger Short Competition — International Film Festival Rotterdam 2019
2018 Triennial: Songs for Sabotage — New Museum, New York
The World of Mindfulness 正念世界
Hong Kong / 2021 / Colour / 20mins
In Cantonese, English and Mandarin with English Subtitles
Dir. Liang YING
In the days when we couldn’t go out, a kid flew all around the world with a paper aeroplane with Abbas Kiarostami's portrait.
During the epidemic, my son and I had been staying at home for a very long time already. I watched him cutting the portrait of Abbas Kiarostami from the book and drawing a face mask on the portrait. I observed him building a "world" on his bed, folding a paper aeroplane, and flying to various places with "Abbas Kiarostami". After flying for the whole day, he fell asleep on that bed with a kitten. In the dream, he used the "magic" he learned from the online magic course, to remove the face mask of "Abbas Kiarostami".
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Ying Liang was awarded Best Director at Locarno for When Night Falls, Tiger Award at Rotterdam for his short film Condolences, Best Live Action Short Film at the Golden Horse Awards for A Sunny Day, and Special Jury Prize at Tokyo Filmex for Taking Father Home. His film A Family Tour premiered at Locarno 2018.
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I was stuck at home, and I even taught the students online only. I made a promise with my students in the documentary production course that as long as they do one piece of homework, I will do one at the same time to realise a communication in the epidemic. So, I used my mobile phone to shoot and edit several pieces of "homework." The content included my son and his mother working in the field together, and disputes between them. It suddenly occurred to me that I might be able to make another short film called "Mindfulness World", which tells the child's plans in reality, and his dreams. My son’s Chinese name is Zheng Nian, which means Mindfulness in English.
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Best Short Award — Sheffield Doc/Fest 2021
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Global Vision Section at DMZ International Documentary Film Festival 2021
Golden Horse Film Festival 2021
Urban Nomads Film Week 2021, China
Jakarta Film Week 2001
32 + 4
Hong Kong / 2014 / Colour + B&W / 32mins
In Cantonese with Chinese and English Subtitles
Dir. Hau-chun CHAN
The director spent her childhood living apart from her family and knew very little about its history. This changed when she graduated from college and decided to face her parents with her camera in a search for answers to questions about her past.
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Chan Hau Chun, graduated from the City University of Hong Kong’s School of Creative Media, is a cinematographer and independent filmmaker.
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Principal Prize — 61th International Short Film Festival 2015
Winner, Adolfas Mekas Award — Experimenta 2015
Champion, Hong Kong Documentary Award — Chinese Documentary Festival 2014
Gold Award, Open Category — 20th IFVA Awards 2015
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Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival 2015
Vancouver International Film Festival 2015
Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival BIEFF 2016
True/False Film Festival USA 2015
1st Macao International Documentary Film Festival
Singapore Chinese Film Festival 2015
Hong Kong Independent Film Festival 2015
Kuala Lumpur Experimental Film, Video & Music Festival 2015
Night is Young 夜更
Hong Kong / 2020 / Colour / 25mins
In Cantonese with Chinese & English subtitles
Dir. Zune KWOK
Since June 2019, Hong Kong has turned a new page. Political violence, protests and police brutality filled the city. This film is about a night shift experience of a taxi driver amid social unrest.
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KWOK Zune was born in Hong Kong in 1985. Zune has worked as an independent film director since graduating from local film school in 2009. His films are grounded with actualities and real characters. And received various awards in local and international competitions. Main works include: A Day in a Life (2008), Homecoming (2009), Downstream (2012), Ten Years (feature film, 2015), and Night is Young (2020).
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As a filmmaker, I wanted to make a work at least a little bit related to the situation in Hong Kong in 2019. I hoped to capture those ordinary people who tend to sustain their daily life, yet some of them might not realise the "normal days" are gone already.
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Best Live Action Short Film Award — The 57th Golden Horse Awards 2020
South Award – Chinese Films Competition — South Taiwan Film Festival 2020
Gold Award (Open Category) — The 26th ifva Awards & Festival
Jury Award (Outstanding Prize) — mm2 Movie Makers Award 2020, Hong Kong
mm2 Award — mm2 Movie Makers Award 2020, Hong Kong
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International competition – Kaohsiung International Film Festival 2020
Spotlight session, Special Focus on Hong Kong session — Osaka Asian Film Festival 2021
Les Nuits en Or 2021 — French Academy of Cinema (Les César), France
Asian Hub, Silent Voices — The 38th Busan International Short Film Festival
Singapore Chinese Film Festival 2021
Kaohsiung Film Festival 2020
The Night 良夜不能留
:: UK PREMIERE ::
Taiwan / 2021 / Colour / 19mins
Dir. Ming-Liang TSAI
In 2019, the night in Hong Kong was still cloaked in mesmerising beauty, but the landscape of everyday life was gradually changing. Perambulating the streets of Causeway Bay, TSAI Ming-Liang documented the city’s rhythm and ambience, along with an overpass. All the while, an old song lingered in his mind, “ The beautiful night is slipping away. I hate to see you go. Why must our bliss end so soon? Why must we part when we've only just begun?”
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Born in Malaysia in 1957, Tsai Ming-Liang premiered his debut feature, Rebels of the Neon God, at the Berlinale in 1992. His sophomore film, Vive L'amour(1994), won the Golden Lion award at the Venice Film Festival while The River (1996) won the Jury Award at Berlin, thus solidifying his status as a major filmmaker. All of his feature films so far have been selected by the top three film festivals of the world while five of them have won the FRIPESCI Award. In 2009, Face became the first film to be included in the collection of the Louvre Museum's “Le Louvre s'offre aux cineastes”.
In recent years, Tsai has also received attention from the art world, having been invited to participate in various art exhibitions and festivals, and for putting forth such aesthetic ideas as the “Hand-sculpted Cinema” and “The removal of industrial processes from art making”. In 2012, he began his “Slow Walk” series and has since completed eight films, screened at art festivals and galleries around the world. Back in Taiwan, he actively promoted the concept of “Art Museum as Cinema” and “The Author's Intended Way of Viewing”, introducing new film-watching modes as a way to balance the overly commercialized film market.
Tsai is the most sensual, sensitive and sombre filmmaker of this generation. He sees the human body as a mysterious, malleable and vulgar machine, and seeks to strip naked the sensory functions of the human body through his work. His films often absent of narrative and dialogue and composed of slow and long takes, present life in its truest form, showing us the helplessness of humans, their desire, emptiness and loneliness. His lens, long fixated on Lee Kang-sheng, is in fact, fixated on life itself.
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The title of the film, The Night, is inspired by a Chinese old song from the 40s. At the end of 2019, I was invited to share and perform some old songs in Hong Kong. It was a tumultuous time there. Growing up in Southeast Asia, I was nurtured by Hong Kong, to say the least, and therefore, has always held Hong Kong dear to my heart. Witnessing the unexpected changes in the Pearl of the East, I could not help but feel an emotional stir. One night, I began filming the streetscape of Causeway Bay after the frenzy subsided, and thus came this short film.
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Kaohsiung Film Festival 2021
Biennale di Venezia 2021
Chicago International Film Festival 2021
Venice Film Festival 2021
São Paulo International Film Festival 2021
