Programme 3: Look Both Ways
20.11.2021 (Sat) 1450｜BC
with post-screening talk
host by Lo Chun Yip
When you turn to look back, what do you see? “Look Both Ways” presents five short films from Hong Kong and Taiwan that deal with buried pasts, be they metaphorical or literal. Taking the audience on a voyage to a street, a home, or even a mysterious planet, these works reflect on time and memories through found footage and animation.
Finalist Works of Local Competition
Once Upon a Time in Tuen Mun
TANG Kan Kei
BA in Department of Animation, TNUA
Hong Kong｜2021｜8′｜Animation
In Cantonese & Madarin with Chinese & English subtitles
Ten thousand years. Any origins will be lost in such a long period of time. But all will be reproduced in fables. The boy dreamed of the world ten thousand years later. He wrote it down and turned it into a story. This is his dream, his creation. The character he made seemed to be himself. This is a metaphor, in which he can barely clarify who he is.
TANG Kan Kei
Born in Tuen Mun, Hong Kong. Major in the Animation Department at TNUA.
Email: tankankei00@gmail.com
Juror’s Comment
充分利用動畫的想像空間，創作出虛實相間的作品。坐上駛往屯門的紅van，夢見太空人尋索相隔萬年的文明，而我們距離心安之處，又有多遠？
Building Blocks
WONG Chung Yan
BACM in School of Creative Media, CityU
Hong Kong｜2019｜30′｜Documentary、Experimental
No dialogue
2020 Jury mention, Brive Film Festival
2020 Jury Recommendation (Open Category), ifva Awards
2019 Experimental Film, South Award Nominations
This is a room journey.
I recorded the gradual movements of my grandfather and his objects while living in a public estate for 30 years. During this time, family concepts stored here start disappearing, losing their form. A 400-square-foot space changed back to a public rental unit.
Through the reconstruction of the unique placements, structures, and traces of marks in the house, I remembered how I stayed. The nature of space and preservation of my family memories are arising in my mind, making noises.
WONG Chung Yan
Wong is still expanding the direction of her creation. Collaborative or guerrilla behaviors carry potential in life and arouse various creative motives with a sense of play. Using video, photography, and objects as media, Wong is interested in exploring documentary structure by intuition and various feelings cultivated in life.
Email: lethewongg@gmail.com
Juror’s Comment
it was such a trip.
生活痕跡、空間細節，有唔少人拍，但呈現到滿滿生活感嘅作品並唔多。
我相信冇用心體會，再組合，係帶唔到人去任何地方嘅；聲音亦如是。
A Trip to There
NGAI Tsz Kwan
BACM in School of Creative Media, CityU
Hong Kong｜2021｜20′｜Documentary、Experimental
In Cantonese with Chinese & English subtitles
2021 International Competition, Kaohsiung Film Festival
A Trip to There is an experimental video essay that forms conversations from my old documentation in response to the action of me reading my past concerns. With the form of automatic writing, I reposition my materials along the timeline, transforming past and unchangeable events into dialogues with new contexts, and creating a journey that penetrates spatial and temporal boundaries.
NGAI Tsz Kwan
Ngai Tsz Kwan, graduate of the School of Creative Media, is interested in exploring the variety and potential of image writing. Ngai emphasizes reading of moving images, as well as their documentary and experimental aspects.
Email: tracey12021@gmail.com
Juror’s Comment
無論是文字與影像的結合，以至新舊不同的片段的串連，亦處理得相當純熟，期待導演畢業後的下一段旅程。
Asian Student Works
Remigrate
HU Ching Chuan
MFA in Department of New Media Art, TNUA
Taiwan｜2021｜8′｜Experimental
No dialogue
Hong Kong Premiere
2021 Awards for Best Experimental Film (Student), Golden Harvest Award
Perhaps, the place we belong is deep inside our hearts.
After settling down post-migration, how do I perceive where “I” exist?
HU Ching Chuan
Currently working as a freelance artist, her art practice mainly explores the heterogeneity between technology, human memory, and perception, including the relationship between reality, virtuality, and what is actually real. At the same time, she reflects and ponders over the current era and the future, using experimental images, Internet technology, and interactive devices to expand the various possibilities of artistic creation.
Spectrum of Nostalgia
CHEN Yi Zhu
BA in Department of Radio, Television & Film, Shih Hsin University
Taiwan｜2017｜24′｜Experimental
In Mandarin with Chinese & English subtitles
2018 Taiwan Competition Gold Award, Women Make Waves International Film Festival
2018 Nominated for Best Short Film, Taipei Film Festival
2018 Taiwan Competition, Taiwan International Documentary Festival
Memory resembles an “afterimage” that often lingers in our minds – gently oscillating until it fades away. As the artist looks to her own family images and recalls the past, she recognizes a great gap between memory and photographs. Using herself as the self-object, Chen analyzes the existence of “I,” examining the relationship between body, memories, images, and death. This work is an attempt to exhibit the path of her reflections.
CHEN Yi Zhu
Chen was born in 1994 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. She obtained her BA from the Department of Radio, Television & Film of Shih Hsin University, and is currently working toward her master’s degree at the Graduate Institute of Trans-disciplinary Arts, Taipei University of the Arts. Her work re-reads, re-constructs, and investigates images to explore the multifaceted nature of reality/memory in the form of film experiments.
