16/11/2019 (Sat) 5pm#

# With video introduction by director Ko I-cheng

*Director Ko I-cheng will attend the after-screening video chat (Skype live chat), Tsang Tsui-shan (Hong Kong director) and Dr. Timmy Chen (Research Assistant Professor, Academy of Film at the Hong Kong Baptist University) will be the moderator.

Taiwan | 1997 | 97 mins | In Mandarin with English subtitles | DCP | Colour

Director: Ko I-cheng

Cast: Tarcy Su, Leon Dai, David Wang 

The film Blue Moon is separated into five parts, respectively labeled “red”, “orange”, “yellow”, “green” and “blue”. These parts can be presented in different orders, weaving 120 possible stories of a romantic triangle. This experimental film breathes the mysteriousness, possibilities and impermanence of romance; it also explores the nature of urbanity and how people live and love in a city.

Director Ko I-cheng will introduce his film in a video before each screening starts and he will attend the post screening video chat of the screening of Blue Moon (Audience’s Choice) . Tsang Tsui-shan (Hong Kong director) will also chat with Ko about the intricate relationships between Hong Kong and Taiwan cinemas. Dr. Timmy Chen (Research Assistant Professor of the Academy of Film at the Hong Kong Baptist University) will be the moderator. It will be conducted in Mandarin only.

The first screening of Blue Moon is the director's cut and the second screening is the audience’s choice. The Hong Kong Arts Centre will organise a colour lottery for our audience starting from 11 October to decide on the Audience’s Choice Screening! For more details, please refer to the Hong Kong Arts Centre website, Facebook or Instagram. The Hong Kong Arts Centre will select one of the audience members’ selected version for the screening. The selected audience will get the prizes for two tickets packages for the screenings of Blue Moon (Each package includes one ticket for Blue Moon (Director’s Cut), one ticket for Blue Moon (Audience’s Choice) and 1 set of snack with a glass of mocktail (available from 20:00 – 01:00).

Colour lottery form: https://bit.ly/33ghZY7

Synopsis

A “blue moon” refers to something that happens only once in a lifetime, or is a rare second full moon in the same calendar month. Cuen-shu and A-gua were classmates and grew up together. One day, they meet a woman called Yi-fang while they are playing softball, and both end up falling in love with her. On an evening of a blue moon, the three try to clear up the clouds of their intricate love triangle.

Ko I-cheng

Born in 1949, Ko I-chen is a famous and influential director and actor in film, TV and theatre. He graduated in film screenwriting and directing from Shih Hsin School of Journalism (now Shih Hsin University, Taiwan) and went on to attain his master’s degree from Columbia College (California, US). His important directorial films include Leapfrog (as part of an anthology In Our Time, 1982), Reunion (1986), Last Train to Tan Shui (1986), A Piggy Tail (1991), Blue Moon (1997) and others. Ko’s works are known for being incisively critical of society from an observational perspective with an empathy for his characters, making him one of the leading forces of New Taiwanese Cinema. He is also an important actor of Taiwan cinema, starring in Ah Hei (1983), Taipei Story (1985), Super Citizen Ko (1995), Mahjong (1996), Lament of the Sand River (2000) and others.

In 1992, he began his new endeavours in theatre and co-founded Paper Windmill Theatre and Greenray Theatre Company with his friends and now has scripted and directed several theatrical works. In 2001, he co-founded Taiwan Film & Culture Association with renowned Taiwanese film professionals Hou Hsiao-hsien, Chu Tien-wen and Liao Qing-song to nurture young film talents and to promote film culture and educational programmes. 

Ticketing
"Individual Tickets" and “Screening Tickets Package” are available on putyourself.in now.

Ticket Price: $80 / $64*
Tickets Package (including one ticket of each screening)：$120

*20% off discount for full-time students, senior citizens aged 60 or above, people with disabilities and the minder.

*20% off for each purchase of 4 or more standard tickets.

Audience members must arrive 20 minutes before the respective screenings. For admission, please present the QR code (either in electric or printed version) shown on the PUTYOURSELF.in e-ticket to redeem the official ticket at the reception counter on UB, Louis Koo Cinema, Hong Kong Arts Centre on the day of the screenings.

This is one of the programmes of “Late Night Series - Art X Fantasy” organised by the Hong Kong Arts Centre and “Taiwan Arts Festival” presented by the Kwang Hwa Information and Culture Center.

Programme enquiry: 2582 0203

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Co-presenters: Hong Kong Arts Centre, Kwang Hwa Information and Culture Center
Supported by: Spotlight Taiwan Project