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as a bird that briefly perches (2025)
Directed by Dorothy Cheung
Documentary · 17m
As a bird that briefly perches is a cinematic diary that weaves together the filmmaker’s sentiments about homeland with reference to the geology of Hong Kong; an analogy between human nature and greenhouse gardening; and her reflections on the choice of living abroad as she studies the everyday life of migrant farmers and their adaptation on foreign soil, reinterpreting agricultural processes and the migration of species. The work explores the implications of rooting, re-rooting and growing as the artist contemplates on the evolving dynamics between land and human.
Crew
- Director
- Dorothy Cheung
- Director of Photography
- Dorothy Cheung
- Editor
- Dorothy Cheung
Details
- Original title
- 擇鳥記
- Release date
- 2025-05-02
- Runtime
- 17m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- CN
- Spoken languages
- Cantonese
- Countries
- Hong Kong, United Kingdom