Completed - No dialog - Animation, Experimental - 13 minutes
A film sixteen thousand splices in the making. E-Ticket is a frantic (re)cataloguing of a personal archive and an opportunity for rebirth to forgotten images. 35mm photographs are obsessively cut apart and spliced together in rhythmic patterns. A retelling of Dante's Inferno for the streaming age.
Year of production : 2019 Director(s) : Simon LIU Producer(s) : Rachael LAWE (LiuFilmsLiu)
A film sixteen thousand splices in the making. E-Ticket is a frantic (re)cataloguing of a personal archive and an opportunity for rebirth to forgotten images. 35mm photo negatives and moving pictures (taken during the artist's formative years) are obsessively cut apart, reshuffled then tape spliced together inch by inch in rigid increments. Fragmented views swipe between a school trip to India then culminate with a protest of a 2005 World Trade Organization summit in Hong Kong. My photographs may have all be cut up, mixed around and ruined; but at least they’re all in one place now. A retelling of Dante's Inferno for the streaming age; a freedom of movement reserved for the modern cloud.
Country(ies) : HONG KONG (CHINA), USA
Sheffield Doc/Fest 2019 VisionInternational Film Festival Rotterdam 2019 (Tiger Short Competition )Hong Kong International Film Festival 2019Vienna Independent Shorts 2019Sheffield Doc/Fest 2019Athens International Film & Video Festival 2019Maryland Film Festival 2019Chicago Underground Film Festival 2019Norwegian Short Film Festival 2019