Hybrid Motion

World Premiere

Hybrid Motion

Hong Kong/ Singapore/ 2019/ 73mins/ Mandarin/ Chinese & English subtitles/ World Premiere

1. Till Then, Awakening in a Dream

2019/ 23mins/ Chinese & English subtitles

Director: Liao Jiekai (Singapore)

Choreographers: Mui Check-yin (Hong Kong)

Mui Cheuk-yin’s dance solo Awakening in a Dream was a defining work of her career that she performed numerous times across three decades. Mui’s relationship with the work evolved over time as she came to view experience. In this film, multiple incarnations of the dance are performed, filmed, spoken, taught and their relationships examined through sound and image editing.

2. Fish

2019/ 15mins/ Chinese & Engllish subtitles

Directors: Russell Morton (Singapore)/ Max Lee Kin-wai

Choreographer: Max Lee kin-ywai

The film experiements with 10 scenaios using the concept of looping and repetition that explores the idea the idea of mortalitywith fish as the symbolic connection.

3. Ward 11

2019/ 16mins / Chinese & English subtitles

Diector: Tsang Tsui-shan (Hong Kong)

Choreographers: Aaron Khek Ah 0hovk & Ix Wong Thien-pau (Singapore)

Aloneness is not the same as being lonely. Lying beneath the white sheets, the 11 holds the tale of forbidden love, unconditional love, in dreams and in reality, always together forever apart. Tracing and arresting a dance couple’s shadows, encoutering the dance, trekking the terrians of their adventures. Lying motionless in 11, the lovers listen, whisper, even at the dullest moments, words of love, conversations continue to flow, laughter fills the ward.

4. Someday I Will Become a Rock

2019/ 19mins/ Chinese & English Subtitles

Co-directors/ Chorographers: Cheuk Cheung (Hong Kong)/ Elysa Wendi (Hong Kong/ Singapore)

We see a rock

It transcends languages and cultures

It traverses time and space

Perhaps it has its own nature and memories

Hybird Motion is co-commissioned and co-produced by CCDC, West Kowloon Cultural District and Cinemovement.

Screening details

6/9/2019
7:30pm
Broadway Cinematheque