Hong Kong/ 2023/ 30 mins/ Cantonese/ Chinese & English subtitles/ World Premiere

Performance artist Florence and documentary filmmaker Tze-woon are lovers.  They propose to exchange each other’s distressing memories before they met and attempt to reenact each other’s experience with their own art form — Could they really walk closer towards each other through the process?

Florence LAM: Putting on his tattered shoes, even if it’s ill-fitting on me. I tried to feel the shape of his feet imprinted on the sole, but I can’t feel his body heat anymore. I rubbed to warm it up, to reenact that feeling after running. I lifted the shoes up easily, despite it looking big and heavy, until I found him squatting down supporting its weight with his hands. No matter how real the moment I re-perform his memory, I can never really replicate the danger he faced and the fear he endured at the time. 

However, I seemed to understand something when I tried to learn his creative language. Holding the worn-out shoes that we were reluctant to throw away, we embrace them with care.

CHAN Tze-woon: “As a man, how would you ever understand the unique experience of a female body?”  Indeed, body and sexuality are fundamentally incomprehensible, so is creative expression.  Florence and I hold a completely different view towards the truth, could we walk into each other’s memory through our own creative media? Despite being sceptical, at least we stepped into each other’s shoes and tried to take one step forward.

Due to the rearrangements of programmes, “Feelings Are Facts” originally scheduled with screenings of “In Your Shoes” & “A Missing Scene from Floral Princess: An untold suicide of the last Ming emperor” will be modified with the latest arrangements as below.

“Feelings Are Facts” on 12 Sep at Eaton HK will be rearranged as Commissioned Film “A Missing Scene from Floral Princess: An untold suicide of the last Ming emperor” & ‘Jumping Frames 2023 Opening Talk – Reality Reconfigured: Why reenactment’.

“Feelings Are Facts” on 15 Sep at K11 Art House will be rearranged as Commissioned Film “A Missing Scene from Floral Princess: An untold suicide of the last Ming emperor” & Body Archive: Contemporary Reenactments in Asian Cities I ‘Mundane Truth’ “House of Chifan”.

Ticket holders may enjoy the programme with the original ticket. For refund, please refer to below.

i) Applicable to the audience purchased at art-mate or MCL :

Refund at the front of house counter for any ‘Jumping Frames 2023’ programmes during 12 – 17 Sep 2023

->Front of House Counter Opening Hours

ii) Only applicable to the audience purchased at art-mate:

Please reply to the email titled “Programme Re-arrangement” from the organiser to request a refund on or before 22 September 2023 (Refunds are available for unused tickets only ). 

Should you have any inquiries, please contact us at 2329 7803 during office hours or email to info@ccdc.com.hk. Sorry for the inconvenience caused.