On the 25 year anniversary of Hong Kong’s handover from Great Britain to Mainland China, directives for “a new era” promising stability and prosperity are found on murals and public slogans. Meanwhile, uneasy thoughts cast unusual shades on daily life. Old feelings arise, a pressure builds – conjuring distant voices from the concrete, never quite getting their point across. Something calls for repair but we can’t just talk it out can we?
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Hong Kong
2023
No Dialogue
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Credits
Producer
Rachael Lawe
Cinematography
Simon Liu
Editor
Simon Liu
Director
Simon Liu
Simon Liu (b. Hong Kong, 1987) is an artist filmmaker working to build a lyrical catalogue of the rapidly evolving psychogeography of his place of origin in Hong Kong through alternative documentary forms, abstract diary films, immersive video installations and expanded cinema performances. His installations and performances have been exhibited at institutions including the Museum of Modern Art, MOCA Los Angeles, SFMoMA, The Shed, PICA, Tai Kwun Contemporary, Everson Museum, Moderna Museet, and the M+ Museum. Meanwhile his films have screened at numerous major film festivals such as the New York, Berlin, Toronto, Rotterdam, San Francisco, Melbourne, Edinburgh, Hong Kong, Jeonju, and BFI London International Film Festivals alongside Sundance Film Festival and New Directors/New Films. Liu’s work is in the permanent collections of MoMA, Centro Pecci Prato, and the M+ Museum.
Profiles of his work have been featured in Art in America, Cinemascope, Hyperallergic, MUBI, and the New York Times. Liu is a teacher at Cooper Union, a member of artist-run film lab Negativeland, and is currently working on his first feature film Staffordshire Hoard.
MODES
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MODES 1
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MODES 2
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MODES 3
Moving through often uncharted (subaltern) territory, these works and their subjects carry the remnants of emotional and physical labour on their shoulders, both literally and figuratively.