E-Ticket
by Simon Liu, 2019, 13''


Schermo dell'Arte - Archivio Film  Presented at the 15th edition of Lo schermo dell'arte, 2021
The film is part of VISIO – European Programme on Artists’ Moving Images - 11th edition 


A tight editing of 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.
E-Ticket is a frantic (re)cataloging of a personal archive and an opportunity for rebirth to forgotten images. 

Simon Liu (Hong Kong, 1987) lives and works between the USA, Hong Kong and London.. Liu’s work has been presented at film festivals and museums globally including the Berlinale Forum Expanded, Toronto International Film Festival: Wavelengths,  IFFR Rotterdam, New York Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival, BFI London Film Festival, The Shed, M+ Museum, Cinéma du Réel, Punto de Vista, Viennale. His works are part of collections of the M+ Museum Hong Kong and MoMA New York.

www.liufilmsliu.com



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