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Hong Kong Short Film: New Action Express – Animation Highlights

Venue: Jockey Club Black Box Theatre, Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre (JCCAC)  
Date: 2019.08.07
Time: 19:30 
Price: Free admission, online registration required. Limited capacity available on a first-come, first-served basis. 

JCCAC Summer Films:HONG KONG SHORT FILM: NEW ACTION EXPRESS – Animation Highlights 

This summer, Jockey Club Black Box Theatre, Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre (JCCAC) will bring you a fascinating array of independent films, not only from local creative powers, but also up-and-coming film directors and young talents around the world.

A series of animations selected from “HONG KONG SHORT FILM: NEW ACTION EXPRESS” will be presented. Sit back, relax, and enjoy the movie! To encourage creative interaction, post-screening talks and meet the director sessions will be arranged on all screenings. Register now to hear about their creative journeys!

 

Date:7 / 8 / 2019 (Wed)

Time:19:30 - 21:30

Venue:Jockey Club Black Box Theatre, Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre (JCCAC) (Address: 30 Pak Tin Street, Shek Kip Mei, Kowloon, Hong Kong)

Post-screening sharing session speaker: Pierre Lam (veteran film critic), KONGKEE (Kong Khong-chang), Step Cheung, Wong Tsz-yin, Chang Sze-wan, Mok Chun-hei, Ng Kai-chung, & Polly Yeung (producer)

 

dragons-delusion-assassination 

 

Dragon's Delusion – Assassination

The search for eternal life is an incessant obsession of mankind. 2000 years ago, Emperor Qin Shi Huang devoted his energy to the search for the elixir of life. He failed ultimately, and finally resorted to building a terracotta army to accompany his burial. The Dragon’s Delusion puts forward a hypothesis: if the Emperor did succeed, what would the world be like?

 

Director : KONGKEE (Kong Khong-chang), Lee Kwok-wai, Tsui Ka-hei, Haze

Duration : 10 mins

Language : No dialogue (with Chinese & English subtitles)

 

toxic-relationship 

 

Toxic Relationship

“Human race will just surrender to fear by betraying our true feeling.” – Taizo Kato

The value and happiness of people should not be built on others. If you try to find someone to complete your life, your self-value will become dependent on others and will feel incomplete when you lose this person.

 

Director : Step Cheung

Duration : 3 mins

Language : No dialogue and subtitles

 

 

kins-hair

 

Kin’s Hair

This film depicts the story of Kin and his one remaining hair. Through the process of Kin’s hair loss, the story brings out many major and minor incidents in Hong Kong over the past 20 years. Having achieved some kind of release, Kin gets rid of his one treasured hair.

 

Director : Chan Kwun-chung, Wong Tsz-yin, Chang See-wan

Duration : 5 mins

Language : Cantonese (with Chinese & English subtitles)

 

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Wong Ping’s Fables 2

Moral lessons for the modern children

 

Director : Wong Ping

Duration : 13 mins

Language : Cantonese (with Chinese & English subtitles)

 

 

lionverse

 

Lionverse

Youngsters may render speechless if they are asked about the meaning of “Spirit of Lion Rock”. Youngsters had never come across the most struggling period in Hong Kong. Now, Hong Kong has entered a “cooling period” after a vibrant growth. According to what the elders share, the “Spirit of Lion Rock” is “you reap what you sow”. However this spirit has long been forgotten. In our generation, what does the “Spirit of Lion Rock” truly mean to us?

 

Director : Mok Chun-hei

Duration : 3 mins

Language : No dialogue and subtitles

 

 

wear-your-beautiful-life

 

Wear Your Beautiful Life

A magic character appears after a young woman ignored several of her dad's phone calls. An innovative time machine will make them experience the changes in Hong Kong over the past 30 years and somehow remind us how family is key in our lives.

 

Director : Nicolas Lesaffre

Duration : 3 mins

Language : No dialogue (with Chinese & English subtitles)

 

 

another-world

 

Another World

Nothing is ever destined to happen in the nether. Everything is impermanent. When Ghostie, who should have lost traits of humanity, encountered a girl that was reluctant to give up on finding her lost brother, nothing will ever be the same anymore.

 

Director : Tommy Ng Kai-chung

Duration : 14 mins

Language : Cantonese (with Chinese & English subtitles)

 

Click here for registration

 

 

Screening Partner:

Hong Kong Arts Centre

Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre

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