Programme 7 :
Memory Lingers
Venue Partner
28/2(Sat) | 2pm | Asia Art Archive (10/F, Hollywood Centre, 233 Hollywood Road, Sheung Wan) | 103’
Free Admission | With after-screening discussion
Interested audience members may join a special guided tour of Asia Art Archive following the screening and discussion.

Long Distance

Chui Wan-shun Vincent, Lai Tze-kim Alex / Col / 19’00” / In Cantonese with English subtitles
The 1st ifva Awards – Drama Category Gold Award
 

A woman keeps telling people about how she felt when she made a long distance call to her boyfriend thirteen years ago.
A man, waken by a mysterious midnight call, tries to recall certain things that happened thirteen years ago.

Retouch (1)

Chan Kam-lok Mark / Col / 5’00” / No dialogue and subtitles
The 1st ifva Awards – Experimental Category Gold Award
 

Through the juxtaposition of old and new materials, the truthfulness and limitations of recorded images are brought out into the open.

United Power (Post Modern Version)

Wong Cheuk-sang / Col / 5’00” / No dialogue and subtitles
The 1st ifva Awards – Music Video Category Gold Award
 

Images of grandiose and decadence, honestly deconstructing an epic experience, over and over again.

Happy Valley (Waiting at T zero)

Chan Kam-lok Mark / Col / 20’00” / In Cantonese with English subtitles
The 3rd ifva Awards – Grand Prize, Others Category Gold Award
 

A “documentary” about Happy Valley. >You reproach me because each of my stories takes you right into the heart of a city without telling you of the space that stretches between one city and the other, whether it is covered by seas, or fields of rye, larch forest, swamps, I will answer you with a story.< (Invisible Cities – Italo Calvino)

her mother /red line

Luk Pui-man / Col & B/W / 6’00” / No dialogue and subtitles
The 6th ifva Awards – Youth Category Gold Award 

a video about mother-daughter relationships,
a video about the identities of daughters,
a video that is structured like a triangle, repeating and broken and connected,
the relationship between daughter and mother is like a triangle?

In Search of the Dragon’s Tale

Stuart Mcgregor Rankin, Haymann Lau / Col / 48’00” / In Cantonese with English subtitles
The 3rd ifva Awards – Documentary Category Gold Award
 

Local street musician Maurice Chan takes us on a journey back to his birthplace, the Walled City of Kowloon, with on-camera interviews with former residents and archive footage. It also explores issues related to life in modern Hong Kong and the 1997 handover.