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30.5–2.6.2024
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Festival

30.5–2.6.2024

Overview

Encounter the Unexpected!
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Experience the inaugural Asian Avant-Garde Film Festival at M+, a vibrant four-day celebration of alternative artistic strategies in film and video. Immerse yourself in the many diverse moving image practices that have shaped Asia's artistic landscape over the past six decades, through screenings, performances, talks, and workshops.

60+
Films
14
Screening programmes
20+
Guest artists

Screenings, Talks & Performances

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30
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5
Every day
Touch Me, Touch Me Not
Time
1:00 pm
Venue
Grand Stair
•
30
.
5
Every day
Fearless & Fierce: The Female Gaze
Time
1:00 pm
Venue
Grand Stair
Thu
•
30
.
5
Every day
Phantom Frequencies: An Audiovisual Experience by Wing Shya × nnscya
Time
6:00 pm
Venue
Grand Stair
Fri
•
31
.
5
Every day
Self × Society
Time
10:30 am
Venue
M+ Cinema
•
31
.
5
Every day
Art and Friendship
Time
12:00 pm
Venue
Grand Stair
Fri
•
31
.
5
Every day
Watch and Learn
Time
2:30 pm
Venue
M+ Cinema
Fri
•
31
.
5
Every day
Zhang Peili: Weaving the Web
Time
6:00 pm
Venue
M+ Cinema
Fri
•
31
.
5
Every day
LuYang Illusory World
Time
8:00 pm
Venue
Grand Stair
Fri
•
31
.
5
Every day
Amorphous Bodies: A Happening
Time
9:00 pm
Venue
Horizon Terrace
Sat
•
1
.
6
Every day
Trailblazers Talk with Nick Deocampo, Ellen Pau, and Zhang Peili
Time
10:30 am
Venue
M+ Cinema
Sat
•
1
.
6
Every day
Slivers of Desire with Nick Deocampo
Time
2:00 pm
Venue
M+ Cinema
Sat
•
1
.
6
Every day
Yam & Yang: Experimentations in 16 mm
Time
4:30 pm
Venue
M+ Cinema
Sat
•
1
.
6
Every day
Glamorous Boys of Tang: Redux
Time
7:30 pm
Venue
M+ Cinema
Sun
•
2
.
6
Every day
Hands-on Animation
Time
11:30 am
Venue
M+ Cinema
Sun
•
2
.
6
Every day
Secrets and Lies
Time
2:30 pm
Venue
M+ Cinema
Sun
•
2
.
6
Every day
Dear Diary
Time
5:30 pm
Venue
M+ Cinema

Festival Lounge Offerings

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Mural: False Awakening by Wong Ping

Thur • 30.5 to Sun • 2.6
Public

Wong Ping’s cheeky character sets the scene for the Lounge.

Cards of Chinese Animal Idioms

Thu • 30.5 to Sun • 2.6
Public

How does one get a tarot card reading in the digital age? Mountain River Jump! is here to help.

Vinyl DJ Sets

Thu • 30.5 & Sat • 1.6
Public

Enjoy an eclectic mix of vinyl-only DJ sets at the Festival Lounge.

Screen Printing Workshop

Thu • 30.5 to Sun • 2.6
Public

Join this screen printing workshop to create a festival souvenir! Visitors can choose their favourite Festival graphic design or image by Wing Shya and print their souvenir with the help of artist Kinchoi Lam.

Neco Lo on Antonio Mak

Fri • 31.5
4pm
Public

Neco Lo will speak with M+ Curator-at-Large Li Cheuk-to about his film Private Antonio (1986/2019) and his friendship with the late Hong Kong artist and sculptor Antonio Mak.

Guided Tour: 'Broadcast at the Same Time (1999.12.31 night)'

Fri • 31.5 & Sat • 1.6
RSVP

Zhang Peili’s video art installation Broadcast at the Same Time (1999.12.31 night) (2000) will be on display in the Main Hall, accompanied by curator-led tours during the festival.

Guided Tour: 'Apichatpong Weerasethakul: Primitive'

Fri • 31.5 & Sun • 2.6
RSVP

Join M+ curators for a guided tour of Primitive, an immersive solo exhibition of Thai artist and filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul.

Guided Tour: 'Shanshui: Echoes and Signals'

Sat • 1.6
3pm
RSVP

Follow M+ curators on a tour of Shanshui: Echoes and Signals.

Guided Tour: M+ Mediatheque

Sat • 1.6 & Sun • 2.6
3:30pm
RSVP

Don’t forget to check out the M+ Mediatheque.

AI Restoration: Dialogue with Ellen Pau

Sat • 1.6
6pm
Public

Join us for an engaging sharing session featuring eminent video and media art pioneer Ellen Pau and Sam Chan, the co-founder of Restituo, a Hong Kong-based tech startup specialising in digital image restoration.

Animation Workshop with Lei Lei

Sun • 2.6
1pm
Public

A continuation of the screening programme Hands-on Animation, artist Lei Lei will demonstrate his animation process in Hand Colored No.2 (2015) in an open-studio manner.

Book Launch by Nick Deocampo

Sun • 2.6
4pm
Public

Join renowned filmmaker and scholar Nick Deocampo for the international release of his new book Alternative Cinema: The Unchronicled History of Alternative Cinema in the Philippines (2022).

Stories

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Article

不太規矩：懷念張照堂老師

（文：馬唯中）

Article

Slightly Defiant: Chang Chao-Tang, An Appreciation

By Lesley Ma

Activity

Through the Lens: LuYang Illusory World 鏡頭之下：陸揚欺誑世界

LuYang Illusory World | 陸揚欺誑世界 31/5 @ Grand Stairs, M+

Activity

Through the Lens: Amorphous Bodies: A Happening 鏡頭之下：流動之軀：一場實驗性表演

Amorphous Bodies: A Happening | 流動之軀：一場實驗性表演 31/5 @ Horizon Terrace, M+

Profile

Lei Lei: Animation Film as Archive and the Multiple Dimensions of Memories

Lei Lei’s sharing on how animation can reinterpret history and memory.

Profile

雷磊：動畫電影也是「檔案館」，記憶不止一面。

雷磊分享動畫如何重述歴史記憶的分享。

Article

Right Till the End: A Man with a Tender Heart

A tribute to pioneer independent and experimental short filmmaker Rajendra Gour by Chew Tee Pao.

Article

始終如一的温柔漢子

向新加坡獨立實驗短片先驅拉真達高的致敬。（文：周世寶）

In Their Own Words

In Their Own Words: Sanjay Gour｜回聲：Sanjay Gour

A quote by the son of an artist. 藝術家家人的話。

Article

Claiming Our ‘Own’ (Asian) Film Avant-Garde

Nick Deocampo on the development of avant-garde films from the Philippines.

Article

提出我們「自己」的（亞洲）前衛電影

尼克狄奧甘普介紹菲律賓前衛電影的發展。

Behind the Scenes

Documenting Friends Using Images

Neco Lo on friendship among creative practitioners.

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