Hong Kong / Singapore / Taiwan / 2019 / 50mins / Partially Cantonese / Putonghua / Chinese & English ssubtitles

Look Two Ways Revisited is (re)created from the two-channel installation work Look Two Ways (2017). The original work – comprising 10 moving-image portraits by five filmmakers, Tsang Tsui-shan, Hugh Cho, Elysa Wendi, Chiu Chih-hua and Remu Iwai, who each created two portraits of contemporary dance artists in Hong Kong – explored the idea of portraiture in response to a provocation by Australian choreographer/filmmaker Sue Healey. Look Two Ways Revisited is a new cut of the original films and offers a fresh look at the backgrounds and philosophies of the same group of dance artists from the perspective of Hong Kong today.

Sue’s provocation to the filmmakers in 2017:

Portraits can reveal unspoken and powerful ideas about identity – creating deep connections between the observer and the observed. A portrait fundamentally involves the act of seeing and being seen. It requires a deep analysis of a person, revealing layers of ideas about the self, and our relationship to the world we live in. Using the unique landscape and history of Hong Kong, create two short portraits that use movement as the language to portray identity.

1.On the ___home

Taiwan / 6mins

Director：CHIU Chih-hua（Taiwan）
Featuring Artists：LIM Wei-wei, CAI Ying

Memory and the body, the carriers of life, wandering in the vast and mightly endless fog.

In the city is an intermediary, can people indifferent circumstances find shelter on the unnamed road?

2. Encounter

Hong Kong / 6mins

Director：TSANG Tsui-shan（Hong Kong）
Featuring Artists：MUI Cheuk-yin, LAU So-kam

Exploring the story of two generations of dancers and their experience of Hong Kong, Encounter is a dance dialogue between Mui Cheuk-yin and Lau So-kam, her first teacher after her arrival in the city. Both overseas Chinese – Mui is originally from Indonesia and Lau from Myanmar – they connected through dance. Getting to know each other through movement and stillness, through the body and over the course of time, they found mutual support and consolation.

3. Jyu4 Jan4 Soeng5 Saan1

Hong Kong / 7mins

Director：Hugh CHO（Hong Kong）
Featuring Artists：Hochi, Steve NG, Kenneth SZE, TO Chi-sing

The mountain embodies the five aggregates: form, feeling, perception, volitional action and consciousness. The mountain embodies the ego. People climb mountains seekingself-cultivation and a path to freedom. When they are forces to climb.they find their own strength.

4 .Stay If You Can / Go If You Must

Hong Kong / Singapore / 12mins

Director：Elysa WENDI（Hong Kong / Singapore）
Featuring Artists：Virginia CHU Sau-man

For me, a portrait is the essence of how we are remembered.
A memory frozen at the point when soul and thought converge in time and space.
Memories can be sentimental and deceptive.
Questioning existence and perspectives, I hope to capture two Hong KOng dance artists in different states of water.
One in the frozen state of ice, the other in the diffuse state of vapour.
Both states impermanent.

5. Isle / Alley

Hong Kong / 15mins

Director：REMU REMU IWAI（Hong Kong）
Featuring Artists：Alley Kenny Leung, Isle Yang Hao

It seems like we’re in a narrow alley
Or like we’re the last creature in an uninhabited isle
Extrusion
Being pushed at the edge of our cuty
Exile
Getting into self-imposed exile at the end of time
Poets and dreams
Imprisoned traverllers and vioces
Dance Dance Dance!

Here and now
Two of the different worlds
Peeking at their eternity or glimpse of life

Look Two Ways Revisited is commissioned bt West Kowloon Cultural District.