Compiled from the Performing Arts programmes* and Visual Arts exhibition records from HKADC’s Arts Yearbooks and Annual Arts Survey projects dating from 2010.

The Sound of Evolution

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Is revolution…fighting estate agents coming to take over your flat? Switching TV channels? Learning to use a Mac?

The Chan family lives in their own era from the past, until a young estate agent’s visit which touches a nerve in the family, and suddenly everyone is pre-occupied with “bettering themselves”. Is progress about insisting, revolutionising, channel-switching, or going shopping? Before arriving to an answer, people in the flat are either going slightly crazy or making meaningless claims. Inside the flat, the clouds of war are hanging. Outside, construction workers are pile-driving. Yet, the answer has not arrived still.

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Way Up To The Sky

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The night when two strangers finally break a long silence, an ending beyond their wildest imaginations awaits…
A poignant view into our city’s dazzling light and glamour, led by a stellar cast of theatre veterans

A sleepless night. A dog gathers all its courage and jumps off the windowsill, into the darkness, like a shooting star flashing across the soundless firmament.
Inside a small flat within a public estate, two elderly occupants live together yet do not interact, until they at last break the silence.
“Kill me,” says Mr A. Mr B does not answer.
“Kill me now,” Mr A demands again.
Still, Mr B does not answer.
Mr A picks up a knife. Without the courage to commit suicide, his wish can only be granted through another person.
Being forced to murder, Mr B wants to run away, yet he is trapped within his own memories.
The clock is still ticking, keeping count of the passing of time as the noise of arguments and the sound of telephone ringing come from the flat…
“A little space shuttle soars into the sky, it soars into the sky… ” The theme song of a children’s programme.
The night has passed. Have the barriers been broken? Have they been granted their wishes?

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Euthanasia Coaster

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Two minutes in Elysium, then, an eternal peace of mind.
Are you ready for your last ride in life?

In a city, euthanasia has just been legalised. The announcement sets the whole town into a frenzy. Seashore Park presents the first ever Euthanasia Coaster, for passengers to take control and end their lives in just two minutes.

Bo believes all her life’s disasters have originated from her father. She decides to ride the Euthanasia Coaster with him, so she can keep her aging father company on his last journey. The father and daughter check into Euthanasia Island and prepare to board the train of their final destiny on the third day. Yet some conditions that arise whilst they are on the island push Bo into an unforeseen dilemma…

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Farewell The Good Old Days

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A reunion across space and time in a cross-border funeral…
Looking back, the bygone is always the most beautiful.

Carrying with her a string of marital problems, 38-year old Hong Konger Tracy attends her great grandmother’s funeral in Macau. As soon as it is over, the relatives begin to fight over inheritance. The family home is empty, its occupants forever gone. Property developers are in a hurry to buy up the old house for a casino development. The beautiful times in the past flash back in front of her eyes.

“Development is the only hard imperative,” Deng Xiaoping once said. Like an enormous wheel, history carries on forward, grinding our most cherished memories from the past into fine dust, left to be blown away with the wind. In the inevitable transition from the old to the new, what could serve as an imprint of our past, to show that we once existed

All that we never gained, and all that is now history, are also what enchant us the most.

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