Hong Kong Arts Centre has long sought to complement this industry by delivering a diverse range of alternative and non-mainstream cinema, thereby promoting appreciation of the richness and range of the moving image practice to the public through presentation. With an in-house cinema, it organises thematic screening programmes ranging from film classics, cutting edge works, short film, documentary to the best in foreign and independent cinema. As a film and media arts hub in Asia, it also serves as an incubator for artists who work with the moving image.
Here are the programmes and screenings scheduled for the months of March and April:
NEW CINEMA COLLECTIVE: THE EMERGING POWER OF ASIAN CINEMA
Venue: Louis Koo Cinema, Hong Kong Arts Centre
Date: 2021.03.14 – 2021.03.25
Organised by New Cinema Collective, The Emerging Power of Asian Cinema aims to bring Hong Kong young filmmakers new inspiration and insight. Through case studies of Asian independent and art film productions and conversations with industry professionals, the programme seeks to illuminate new possibilities in Hong Kong film production and offer new perspectives to emerging filmmakers.
Curated into three thematic strands – Co-production, Post-production: Editing, and International Distribution, the programme presents more than 20 films from Southeast Asia, Taiwan, Hong Kong and China, goes hybrid with physical/online screenings, online post-screening talks, masterclass and panel discussion with film professionals.
Part 1: Online Programme will be held on 25/2 – 28/2/2021; Part 2: Physical screenings will be held from 14/3 – 25/3/2021.
Physical Screenings schedule
14/3 (Sun) 4pm Chinese New Visions – Short Film Programme I*
14/3 (Sun) 8pm Chinese New Visions – Short Film Programme II*
21/3 (Sun) 2pm Singing in Graveyards
21/3 (Sun) 7pm Bangkok Nites*
25/3 (Thu) 8pm Nakorn-Sawan
*with after-screening discussion (via video call)
INDEPENDENTLY YOURS: WOMEN DIRECT. KOREAN INDIES! – KOREAN WOMEN INDEPENDENT FILM SERIES
Venue: Louis Koo Cinema, Hong Kong Arts Centre
Date: 2021.03.19 – 2021.07.31
Proudly presented by the Hong Kong Arts Centre, the DMZ International Documentary Film Festival and the Seoul Independent Film Festival, the Women Direct. Korean Indies! – Korean Women Independent Film Series brings you on a journey to explore the recent wave of women independent cinema. Our selected works observe and delineate women's places and emotions in the Korean society with great intimacy and delicacy, and will show you a diversity of women's lives that you might not have experienced before.
This film series takes place from March to July 2021 under the signature programme of the Hong Kong Arts Centre, Independently Yours.
Screening Schedule
19/3 (Fri) 7:30pm A Boy and Sungreen
20/3 (Sat) 7:30pm Itaewon
16/4 (Fri) 7:30pm The Strangers
17/4 (Sat) 4pm Escape the Corset
17/4 (Sat) 7:30pm Lucky Chan-sil
21/5 (Fri) 7:30pm maggie
22/5 (Sat) 3:30pm For Vagina's Sake
22/5 (Sat) 7:30pm Way Back Home
26/6 (Sat) 7:30pm Microhabitat
27/6 (Sun) 7:30pm Untold
30/7 (Fri) 7:30pm Selected Shorts to Wow: Movements / Unpredictable Boy / Beginners' Class
31/7 (Sat) 7:30pm The Pregnant Tree and the Goblin
GOLDEN SCENE SELECTION – MARCH
Venue: Louis Koo Cinema, Hong Kong Arts Centre
Date: 2021.03.26 – 2021.03.28
“Golden Scene Selection”, proudly presented by the Hong Kong Arts Centre (HKAC) and Golden Scene Company Limited, will bring the audience a series of cherry-picked selections from around the world at the HKAC.
Screening schedule
26/3 (Fri) 8pm Dear Tenant*
27/3 (Sat) 3pm A Leg
27/3 (Sat) 7pm Keep Rolling#
28/3 (Sun) 3pm True Mothers
28/3 (Sun) 7pm The Way We Keep Dancing#
*with after-screening discussion (conducted in Mandarin)
#with after-screening discussion (conducted in Cantonese)
MACHINES LIKE US: DESIRES AND TECHNOLOGY IN GERMAN CINEMA
Venue: Louis Koo Cinema, Hong Kong Arts Centre
Date: 2021.04.18 – 2021.04.21
Co-presented by Goethe-Institut Hongkong and the Hong Kong Arts Centre, this film showcase serves as an introduction to German science fiction films from the 1920s up till now, and encourages our audience to observe how technologies have evolved over time in cinema and in our greater world to meet human desires. This programme involves discourses on gender, politics, society, culture and other areas over the course of history. While it traces how the ancient dream of creation connects with today's world, it also illustrates how the human condition and our surroundings have been shaped by technological innovations.
Screening schedule
18/4 (Sun) 4pm The Golem: How He Came into the World*
18/4 (Sun) 7:30pm Metropolis+
19/4 (Mon) 7:30pm World on a Wire
20/4 (Tue) 7:30pm In the Dust of the Stars
21/4 (Wed) 7:30pm Hi, AI*
*With after-screening talk. Conducted in English.
+With introduction. Conducted in Cantonese.
INDEPENDENTLY YOURS – FUTURE PICTURES
Venue: Louis Koo Cinema, Hong Kong Arts Centre
Date: 2021.01.04
From 2019 to 2020, we were brought into so many exceptional challenges like never before. Numerous of cancelled events, disrupted plans, and unpredictable consequences – when the future imagined might never come, disappointment, anger and frustration grow among us. Yet, we picture the future, mostly because we believe and hope that the best is yet to come at the first place. These longing and imagination in your head are the one thing that is the hardest to be taken away from you. As such, the hardest the times are, the more we should imagine.
In the coming December, Independently Yours – Future Pictures presents to you 6 short films picturing the future far and near. Through immersing into the unique future worlds, together we imagine: as 2020 is coming to an end, how shall our 2021 be?
Screening Schedule
4/1/2021 (Mon) 8pm* (Total duration: 70′)
*Directors will attend the after screening talk, moderated by Independent Filmmaker Fredie Chan Ho Lun (conducted in Cantonese).
GwanGong VS Alien
by Leung Chung-man | Hong Kong | 2011 | 16' | In Cantonese with Chinese and English subtitles | HD | Colour
Hong Kong will be destroyed after 33 years
by Ng Siu-lun | Hong Kong | 2013 | 7' | In Cantonese with Chinese and English subtitles | HD | Colour
Wisdom Tree
by Ho Man-kit, Tsui Ka-hei, Tsui Ka-long, Chan Siu-chung | Hong Kong | 2008 | 8' | no dialogue and subtitles | HD | Colour
Back to Base
by Mak Siu-fung, Ho Ka-chiu | Hong Kong | 2010 | 19' | No dialogue and subtitles | HD | Colour
21³
by Chu Yin Zhen | Hong Kong | 2018 | 4' | no dialogue and subtitles | HD | Colour
Dragon's Delusion – Preface
by Kong Khong-chang (Kongkee) | Hong Kong | 2020 | 16' | In Cantonese with Chinese and English subtitles | HD | Colour
For more info about events and ticketing, please go to the Hong Kong Arts Centre Official Website
