Screening
NEW ACTION EXPRESS Short Film Highlights
Little Shop of Grotesque
Hung Tsz-ching
2017 / Col / 23'00" / In Cantonese with Chinese and English subtitles
Official Selection, 7th Chinese Visual Festival
Official Selection, 11th Five Flavours Film Festival
Flower shop employee Molly has a passion for flowers and plants, she understands that plants are intellectual and capable of communication. With acute sensitivity, she could quickly locate and exterminate bugs hidden in the plants. Up in the shop's attic is where she experiments in breeding a brand new species of flower, which makes no progress. New co-worker Anna joins the shop and Molly starts to notice sound of insects crawling and buzzing. Soon she finds that it comes from within Anna's body...