Happy Valley

Hong Kong as you’ve never seen it before and as perhaps no one will see it again, given recent upheavals in the former British colony. New York-based Liu, who spent several formative years in HK, returns with his 16mm camera to create a freewheeling, enchantingly disorienting kaleidoscope of images, sounds, and moods, homing in on the more bizarre and unlikely manifestations of the city’s crisscrossing cultures to immerse the viewer in a unique urban space. The area’s turbulent political context is poetically evoked, poignantly foreshadowing the greater turbulence that would soon follow. (Neil Young)

This film will be shown as part of the screening SHORT FILM PROGRAMME 8: A RADIANT EARTH.