Rice Distribution 平安米 + Nail 指月記@Summerhall, Edinburgh

  • Sun, Mar 26, 2023 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm

  • Summerhall

    1 Summerhall
    Edinburgh, Midlothian EH9 1PL
Ticket Price (GBP) £8.00 This event is now over
Description

The screening in Edinburgh on 26th March will be followed by a hybrid Q&A session, featuring Dir. Tin Fu HUANG (online) and Dir. Tammy CHEUNG (in-person), hosted by Dr. Fraser ELLIOTT (in-person).

Rice Distribution 平安米 

Hong Kong / 2003 / Colour / 35 mins / In Cantonese with Chinese and English subtitles

Director: Tammy CHEUNG

 

Q&A details:

Host: Dr Fraser ELLIOTT, ​​Lecturer in Film, Exhibition and Curation at The University of Edinburgh

Speaker: Dir. HUANG Ting Fu HUANG, Dir. Tammy CHEUNG, Augustine LAM, Cinematographer

 

Full Synopsis:

During the Ghost Festival, many Taoist organisations give away rice to the elderly and the poor. The rice distribution depicted in this film attracted over eight thousand people. Most of them waited over 20 hours.

 

Awards:

  • Grand Prize at the 8th IFVA 2003

 

Director’s biography: 

Tammy Cheung is a Hong Kong documentary filmmaker. Cheung founded Visible Record Limited with other like-minded individuals from the fields of film, culture and education. In 2008, she founded the Chinese Documentary Festival. And in 2019, the Festival was expanded into an international film festival. It’s renamed as the Hong Kong International Documentary Festival.

在慈雲山球場舉行的一次盂蘭節派米活動中，參加輪米人士約有八千二百人，大部份為長者。派平安米活動本為香港的傳統習俗，但後來因貧窮的長者不斷増加，很多老人以此賴以生存。



導演簡介

張虹在上海出生，香港長大，分別在香港及加拿大修讀社會學和電影。曾在滿地可籌辦電影節。2004年在香港創辦慈善機構「采風電影」並擔任藝術總監，以推廣紀錄片藝術為宗旨。「采風電影」2008年起每年舉辦的「華語紀錄片節」，2019更升格為「香港國際紀錄片節」。2022年移居英國繼續從事紀錄片製作工作。

張虹1999年開始拍攝紀錄片，已完成十多部作品，並曾在世界各地多個電影節放映。

 

Nail 指月記

Taiwan / 2002 / B&W / 45 mins / No Dialogue

Director: Ting Fu HUANG

 

Full Synopsis:

“Nail” is Director Huang Ting-fu’s year and a half long (a year of filming and 6 months of editing) look at life through the window of Taipei’s historic Long-Shan temple. Shot in monochrome, in an area of only 200 sq. m., the film immerses us in the daily passing of time that is life at Long-Shan. 

An architectural blend of the ornate, the garish and the traditional, Long-Shan temple sits in the midst of a crowded working class area of Taipei, filled with a diverse mix of the old and the new, with cheap good food, ageing prostitutes, and places to just hang out and have a smoke and exist. The temple itself is not beautiful, nor does it have an impressive view, every day it is filled with visitors. Frequented mostly by the elderly who pass away their days sleeping, engaged in idle gossip, or just watching the other visitors, it is a fascinating place where scant attention is paid to time.

Awards:

  • Best Short Documentary at the 26th Golden Harvest Awards 2003
  • Best Audio Design Award at the Taipei Film Festival
  • Best Asian film at the Syracuse University Film Festival

Nomination: 

  • Best Documentary at the 2003 Golden Horse Awards

Selected in:

  • Taiwan International documentary Festival, Yamagata International
  • Documentary Festival and International Human rights Film Festival in Spain
  • Cinéma du Réel (25th International Film Festival of Visual Anthropology and Social Documentation)2003
  • Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival
  • International Meeting of Cinema, TV, Video and Multimedia, AVANCA, PORTUGAL
  • Syracuse International Film and Video Festival 2004
  • Singapore International Documentary Film Festival 2004
  • FILMER A TOUT PRIX", Bruxelles Documentary Film Festival 2004
  • DocBsAso4 (Productora Asociación Civil Cine Ojo) Argentina 2004
  • Taiwan Film Festival(Musée d'ethnographie de Genève) 2006

Directors’ Biography: 

HUANG Ting-Fu was born in Kinmen, a small island near Taiwan in 1961. He made his first film back in 1985 with his regular 8mm camera and he has been a devoted documentary filmmaker. He graduated in Broadcasting and Television from the National Taiwan College of Art in 1988. From 1989 to 2016, he was working as a film archivist in Taiwan Film Institute. HUANG currently works as a freelance filmmaker.

本影片看似以台北萬華龍山寺前的遊民、香客、遊客等為主角，又似以龍山寺為主題，以表相的人物與建築物，探討無所不在的時間、生命的流逝等哲學意義。

導演簡介

資深紀錄片工作者，1961年出生於金門，1988年畢業於國立台灣藝術大學廣電系，畢業後於映像觀念工作室擔任攝影助理十一個月，1989年至國家電影資料館資料組工作至今。

1985年在學時第一次拍攝8釐米電影，亦開始親近大師們的作品；1992年至1993年第 一次拍攝紀錄片《廖瓊枝－台灣第一苦旦》，透過廖瓊枝悲苦的身世、哀淒之聲與姿態，影射台灣近代的歷史；1995年至2000年完成《台灣魔朵》與《03：04》二部紀錄片。《台灣魔朵》追蹤探討台灣一群人體模特兒的身體自覺意識，為台灣百年來第一部人體模特兒全紀錄，《03：04》呈現金門島上歐厝村順天商店內阿兵哥苦悶狀態。

2001年至2002年完成《指月記》，以影像與聲音辯證坐落於紛亂雜沓街坊的百年古剎－艋舺龍山寺的人們。2006年《黃屋手記》，以台灣特有文化-檳榔西施為記錄對象，甫完成便獲得2006瑞士尼翁真實國際紀錄片影展國際競賽評審團特別獎，並獲得2006台灣國際紀錄片雙年展台灣獎首獎及2006法國南特三洲影展國際競賽類最佳紀錄片獎。

Date & Time

Sun, Mar 26, 2023 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Venue Details

Summerhall

1 Summerhall
Edinburgh, Midlothian EH9 1PL Summerhall
Hong Kong Film Festival UK

The Hong Kong Film Festival UK, HKFF (UK), aims to shine an international spotlight on Hong Kong’s creativity and humanity through film. The festival also strives to promote cultural interactions and exchanges between Hong Kong communities and UK citizens. Hong Kong’s world-renowned cinema was born out of its unique history and rich social context. Building on this vivid and eclectic history, the Festival aims to introduce a new wave of Hong Kong cinema that has blossomed in an era of drastic transformation. It is time to tell Hong Kong’s story again, to preserve and promote Hong Kong's cultural heritage, and to reflect on the city's enchanting, complex, and challenging reality from a fresh perspective.

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