Martial Angels: The Heroic Trio 東方三俠 + A World, A Girl, A Gun Workshop
Floating Cinema
Curated by Elizabeth Gabrielle Lee and Jade Meili Barget
14 Sept 2025 (Sun)
1pm, Theatreship, Canary Wharf
Screening: 83 min
Post-screening Workshop: 45-60 min
Hong Kong | 1993 | Colour | 83’ | In Cantonese with Chinese and English subtitles
Dir.: Johnnie To 杜琪峯
Cast: Michelle Yeoh 楊紫瓊, Anita Mui 梅艷芳, Maggie Cheung 張曼玉
Martial Angels is the 5th Edition of the screening series Fatal & Fallen, an ever-evolving programme that unearths the trope of the deadly, deranged and delinquent woman pictured in grindhouse, exploitation, and arthouse cinema. Fatal & Fallen consists of the genres Hong Kong’s Girls with Guns, Japan’s Pinku Eiga, South Korean hostess and thriller films and Taiwan’s Black Movies, investigating the enduring yet contested motif of revenge across cinema, popular media, collective narratives, and contemporary imaginaries.
This edition zooms in on the Hong Kong Girls with Guns genre, the female-led action movies and anime emerging from the 1980s to 2000s. The screening presents a 1993 classic, The Heroic Trio, directed by Johnnie To, featuring the lethal woman unholy trinity, Anita Mui, Michelle Yeoh and Maggie Cheung. The film is accompanied by A World, A Girl, A Gun, a participatory worldbuilding workshop inspired by the genre, exploring the concepts of final girlhood, revenge, rage, and agency. The workshop will be facilitated and hosted in collaboration with lecturer and technical artist Jenn Leung.
This event will take place at Theatreship - a floating arts centre and cinema housed in historic cargo ships at Canary Wharf.
