Stay If You Can/ Go If You Must
Elysa Wendi
Hong Kong, Singapore〡2019〡Exp〡12min〡BW〡No Dialogue〡English Subtitle
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The film expresses the experience and emotion of two Hong Kong artists about the current political movement through metaphor of frozen ice and smoke.
Director
Elysa Wendi
Elysa Wendi is a Singaporean artist and filmmaker based in Hong Kong. Preoccupied with the abstraction of memory from place, time and biographical traces, Elysa Wendi explores her works in film, photography and performance. In 2015, Wendi co-founded Cinemovement, a platform to facilitating the creation of inter-disciplinary filmic works through a laboratory setting. She has won the best experimental film in South Taiwan Film Festival 2018 with her film 1958 Delivery and best documentary film in Hong Kong Arthouse Film Festival 2020 with her film Forgive or Not to Forgive.
閉不住兩眼看命運光臨，天空湧起密雲，冰塊融化的脆裂聲、女子呢喃聲和遠方戰鼓的前奏，壓抑窒息的強大臨場感，是對香港運動現場最深沈的抽象再現。
EP.29、EP30 浮城一夢闖江湖(上下集)〡專訪《夜更》導演郭臻、《記憶中混濁的霧是我的畫像》導演葉奕蕾、《房間525》導演葉奕蕾、李偉盛
上集：
南方影展藝術總監．黃柏喬 、南方影展競賽統籌．張喬勛〡31min〡21 OCT 2020
下集：
南方影展藝術總監．黃柏喬 、南方影展競賽統籌．張喬勛〡20min〡24 OCT 2020
三位居於香港的創作者，以影像抒發近兩年的城市觀察。常被身邊小人物吸引的郭臻，以計程車司機視角觀察反修例運動的一晚；由舞蹈走入影像創作的葉奕蕾，以舞者肉身霧影隱喻運動的緊迫與疼痛；李偉盛與葉奕蕾合拍紀錄片，呈現多位被攝者對運動的反思。
導演將視角延伸到街頭周遭，任何空間都可以是片場。橫跨劇情、實驗與紀錄片，在有限的資源下，他們也摸索出自己的拍片方法。
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