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As a bird that briefly perches

擇鳥記

Indonesian Premiere

17 minutes | 2025 | Hong Kong, United Kingdom | Experimental  | 🔊 Cantonese | SU

Synopsis
Sinopsis

as a bird that briefly perches is a cinematic diary that weaves together sentiments about homeland with reference to the geology of Hong Kong; an analogy between human nature and greenhouse gardening; and her reflections on the choice of living abroad as the director studies the everyday life of migrant farmers and their adaptation on foreign soil, reinterpreting agricultural processes and the migration of species. The work explores the implications of rooting, re-rooting and growing as the artist contemplates on the evolving dynamics between land and human.

Schedule
Jadwal

Fri, 5 Dec 2025 | 18:45 | EMPIRE XXI | Premiere

Director's Biography
Biografi Sutradara
Dorothy Cheung

Dorothy Cheung

Dorothy Cheung is a filmmaker and artist from Hong Kong. Her practice explores the notion of identities and home through a double perspective - personal and political, memory and forgetfulness. Her moving-image works are internationally selected for film festivals including International Film Festival Rotterdam, Leeds International Film Festival, Seoul Women’s Film Festival, South Taiwan Film Festival and Queer Lisboa.

Credit
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Production Company
ProducerDorothy Cheung
DirectorDorothy Cheung
ScriptwriterDorothy Cheung
CinematographerDorothy Cheung
Production Designer
EditorDorothy Cheung
Main Cast
Director’s filmography
  • as a bird that briefly perches (2025)
  • Heart Murmurs (2023)
  • Home, and a Distant Archive (2020)
  • A Room of Oblivion (2019)
Notable Achievement
  • Official Selection
  • Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival
  • Official Selection
  • Asian Avant-Garde Film Festival at M+
  • Grand Prize Women Directors’ Documentary at What the Doc! Film Festival
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