Devil's Peak

Simon Liu’s associative celluloid explorations of his home town of Hong Kong have always contained a certain eeriness, but DEVIL’S PEAK pushes forward into the realm of the full uncanny: dark corridors, disembodied voices, a moon that dances manically in the night sky, fires burning on streets and in empty buildings, police in riot gear. It’s hard to pin down just where the mood Liu weaves around the city’s mass protests is located in time: the very real fear of untoward happenings in that strange, shifting present or the premonition of a future that has now already arrived; a city symphony where time itself becomes unstable. (James Lattimer)

This film will be shown as part of the screening SHORT FILM PROGRAMME 6: BURNING.