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Dorothy Cheung, ‘Reverberation’
Dorothy Cheung, ‘Reverberation’
5:20
25 May 2023 / by Dorothy Cheung

Reverberation

7 mins 
Moving Image  / Hong Kong as Mise-en-scène  / Video

How do we remember an ever-changing city?

Dorothy Cheung

Reverberation is an experimental film that centres on Yau Ma Tei—a district in Hong Kong that was home to various independent art and cultural spaces in the 2010s and was also where the filmmaker began her practice. By overlapping new and archival images, the film delves into layers of memories to capture complex emotions about this district as well as the city as a whole.

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Dorothy Cheung
Dorothy Cheung

Dorothy Cheung is a filmmaker and artist from Hong Kong. She received her MA in lens-based media from the Piet Zwart Institute in the Netherlands. Her practice explores notions of identity and home through personal and political perspectives as well as from the angles of memory and forgetting. Her moving image works have been exhibited and screened internationally, including at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Leeds International Film Festival, Seoul International Women’s Film Festival, and South Taiwan Film Festival.

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