In Ho Tzu Nyen and Wong Hin-yan’s live-cinema commission Timepieces (2025) made especially for the Asian Avant-Garde Film Festival, the artists present a multisensorial experience of time. Timepieces stages Ho's forty-three channel installation on a single monumental screen. The visuals are synchronised to Wong’s original live score combining music with spoken word and haiku delivered in English and Cantonese. This unique collaboration offers multiple concrete and elusive depictions of time, inviting us to contemplate our own experiences of temporality.

Ho Tzu Nyen’s (b. 1976, Singapore) work is steeped in Eastern and Western cultural references, encompassing art history, theatre, cinema, music, and philosophy. By blending mythical narratives with historical facts, Ho explores different interpretations of history, its writing, and its transmission. The central theme of his oeuvre is a long-term investigation of the plurality of cultural identities in Southeast Asia, a region so multifaceted in its languages, religions, cultures, and influences that it defies reduction to a simple geographical area or a singular historical base. This understanding of the region’s complexity is reflected in his works, which weave together different regimes of knowledge, narratives, and representations. From documentary research to fantasy, his work combines archival images, animation, and film into installations that are often immersive and theatrical.

An independent singer-songwriter, Wong Hin-yan (b. 1985, Hong Kong) is known for his enigmatic performances, often accompanied only by the sparse strumming of his guitar. His poetic Chinese lyrics gives voice to the collective traumas of Hong Kong through metaphorical imagery that touch on themes of memory, fragility, struggle, and resistance. Since 2005, Wong has composed award-winning music for theatre productions, narrative films, documentaries, and artist films. He won Best Original Film Score for his work on The Narrow Road (2022) from both the Golden Horse Awards and the Hong Kong Film Awards.