Stay If You Can / Go If You Must

Elysa Wendi / Hong Kong / 2019 / European Premiere / 12 min.

synopsis

A portrait film of two female contemporary Hong Kong artists shot over ice and smoke, in which these two substances reflect the real-life, turbulent events currently playing out in the ill-fated Special Administrative Region of the PRC. The poetry of words and introspection overlap here in several different layers with the throbbing, relentless prose of documented reality.

"An abstraction on a real event pushes further imagination and emotion in a different time and space for further introspection." E. Wendi

biography

Elysa Wendi is a Singaporean artist living in Hong Kong. A common characteristic of her work lies in the dividing line between film and dance, but more specifically her search for a collective memory and the geographical influences on the body and mind.