Afterimage
Shorts
13 Sept 2025 (Sat)
6.30pm, Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA)
Runtime: 102’
Wounds healing, scars left behind. Years have gathered since collective trauma, and heads are simultaneously looking forwards while looking back. Reconciliation is a many-faced monster - is it just a typhoon, or just by chance that these are the colours chosen to represent it all? Alienated and rootless, we persist onwards, pondering between worlds.
Followed by a Q&A with filmmakers in this programme.
This screening is presented in partnership with Ying E Chi (https://yingechi.com/en/about-en/).
With support from Amnesty International UK.
Colour Ideology Sampling.mov 顏色擷取樣本.mov
UK Premiere
Taiwan & Hong Kong | 2024 | Colour | 59’ | In Cantonese with Chinese and English subtitles
Dir.: Chan Cheuk-sze 陳卓斯, Kathy Wong 王紀堯
A visual deconstruction of symbolism, design, and power of colour. Hong Kong Yellow or Taiwan Blue, colours are political; in social movements, in elections, in identification. Best Documentary Short Film at the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival 2024.
Cyclone 氣旋
UK Premiere
Taiwan & Hong Kong | 2023 | Colour | 13’ | No dialogue and subtitles
Dir.: MT
July 1, 2022. As Hong Kong marks its 25th anniversary of sovereignty handover to China, the city braces for the arrival of a disastrous Typhoon Chaba.
The Land of Bliss 極樂
International Premiere
Hong Kong | 2024 | Colour | 30’ | In Cantonese with Chinese and English subtitles
Dir.: Steve Li 李昊
Four disappointed youths, a night under ecstasy. A car crash transforms them into lost souls stranded between life and death, and each must reckon with their former lives.
