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- Many Undulating Things is an expansive and meditative film that traces Hong Kong's complex colonial history. The social and urban transformation of the cosmopolitan city is at the centre of this poetic documentary, which examines the relationships between landscape, nature, urbanisation and society. The film begins and ends in a Hong Kong shopping centre. From concrete, enormous port warehouses, glazed galleries built for universal exhibitions, overpopulated tower blocks, to the fragments of its colonial past, the film questions the role of cities in the globalised capitalist system.
- A love story comes to an end when a woman sets out in search of a shamanic god. Director Kelvin Kyung Kun Park takes the trauma of a spurned lover as the starting point for his own search for a god. He makes several finds across various narrative strands - among whales in the sea, in a shipyard, at a steelworks. All of them are giants of their respective times: vast, sublime, godlike. Park's imagery also evokes the divine: embers and steel, sparks and fire; people dwarfed by huge cogwheels, robbed of their individuality. A brave new world in which workers produce modern industrial goods, even as the industry has long since been producing the modern worker. Work is a god we have submitted to. Yet every existence is temporary and fleeting, which applies in equal measure to both relationships and gods.