This short essay film reappropriates archival travelogue footage shot in Hong Kong across the 20th century. Sometimes the footage reveals more about the traveler himself, such as a sequence where the camera curiously tracks the hips and bare legs of women wearing cheongsam crossing a busy intersection. Intertitles intermittently puncture the footage with an oral history of Hong Kong, as told by the filmmaker’s mother who describes colonialism in Kowloon of the postwar era. The viewer is left to imagine these scenes.
What Rules The Invisible (2022)
Directed by Tiffany Sia
Genres - Documentary |
Run Time - 10 min. |
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Camera, Era, Essay, Filmmaker, Hip, History, Hong Kong, Intersection, Leg, Mother, Short, Traveler, Viewer, Woman
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What Rules The Invisible
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