Installations, performances, and exhibitions present the medium of film in unfamiliar forms.
Simon Liu:
Star FerryWed–Sat 17:00–23:00
Skills Park opposite Kraftfeld
Time-condensed 35 mm imagery of Hong Kong and Tokyo meld together to form impressions of city life by day and night. As an exploration of the energy found in transient moments between final destinations, «Star Ferry» attempts to construct a cinematic replica of the circadian rhythms of these two metropolises. Shot entirely with a 35 mm still camera, the work is structured between moments of stasis and frenetic movement, drawing out tensions between abrupt passages forward past neon signs and LED advertisements and quiet observations of personal rituals.
Kurzfilmtage shows the work as an outdoor projection on the wall of Skills Park opposite Kraftfeld.
Simon Liu is a film artist who seeks 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, multi-channel video installations and 16 mm projection performances. By exploiting abstraction and inverting observational cinema practices, the works formally manifest hidden energies and histories within civic space, developing new language to investigate censorship, concealment, nostalgia, and self-expression at a time of unease both within the city and globally. Liu’s work has been presented at film festivals and museums globally. He is a 2019 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow, a teacher at the Cooper Union School of Art, and a member of Negativeland, an artist-run film lab in Brooklyn. Liu is currently editing his first feature film, «Staffordshire Hoard».
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