Simon Liu Movies
- 2021
Devil's Peak
Devil's Peak52021HD
In the hyperkinetic multichannel video installation Devil’s Peak, Simon Liu surveys the psychogeography of Hong Kong as a feverish dreamscape,...
- 2020
Signal 8
Signal 86.12020HD
Simon Liu's eerie, entrancing portrait of contemporary Hong Kong tracks a series of strange disruptions to the city's urban infrastructure....
- 1994
Family Affairs
Family Affairs01994HD
Traditional values and modern ideals clash when an old-fashioned father and his playboy son cannot see eye to eye in this honest look at the...
- 2019
E-Ticket
E-Ticket72019HD
A film sixteen thousand splices in the making. E-Ticket is a frantic (re)cataloguing of a personal archive and an opportunity for rebirth to...
- 2017
Highview
Highview82017HD
Personal moments are lost in film cuttings or disappear into a coloured fog only to suddenly reappear in a new constellation. This is the visual...
- 2020
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A promise for outstanding regulatory conduct is called into question. A fire has been started, movement has gone on to reach multiple points of no...
- 2023
Let's Talk
Let's Talk02023HD
Produced during the 25th anniversary of Hong Kong’s handover from Great Britain to Mainland China in the wake of cataclysmic regional changes,...
- 2018
Star Ferry
Star Ferry82018HD
Impressions of Hong Kong and Tokyo by day and night shot entirely with a 35mm still camera. Star Ferry is structured between moments of stasis and...
- 2024
Single File
Single File72024HD
In the wake of cataclysmic regional change in the artist's homeland of Hong Kong, Simon Liu’s Cinema-Strobo-Scopic film features a laborious...
- 2021
Happy Valley
Happy Valley72021HD
In Hong Kong, echoes of resistance and turmoil are sensitively captured on 16mm in this poetic rumination of public spaces and everyday life in a...
- 2018
Sneyd Green
Sneyd Green62018HD
It’s any day, any year in the house of Alan and Vera Ellis in their Post-Industrial English conurbation formerly known for their world renown...
- 2014
Donkey Riding
Donkey Riding72014HD
This past summer I spent a month in Hong Kong with my family in the house I grew up in.
- 2015
Harbour City
Harbour City62015HD
A view through cracks between fish markets and high-rise buildings; urban imagery of Hong Kong and the indulgence of domestic life. Hong Kong's...
- 2018
Fallen Arches
Fallen Arches02018HD
Global in scope but intimate in spirit, Simon Liu's Fallen Arches is a dizzying assembly of footage shot between the bucolic English countryside and...
- 2022
Hide & Seek
Hide & Seek02022HD
Hide & Seek offers a layered reflection of Liu’s body of work, playfully repurposing images of urban spaces and personal histories. Composed...
- 1970
Refuse Room
Refuse Room01970HD
Tangled spirals, rapid encounters, a quiet war between the vertical and the horizontal: Simon Liu’s Refuse Room captures Hong Kong’s...
- 2012
Ditchwork
Ditchwork02012HD
Ditchwork uses intimate physicality, folk-tale themes, and lush imagery to imaginatively fill in the blanks of a family history that is, like every...
- 2015
Shuffle Cove
Shuffle Cove02015HD
Harmony (n.) a consistent, orderly, or pleasing arrangement of parts; congruity. Forgive my nerves— rattling of my subjective coloring and...
- 2009
Flyer Boy
Flyer Boy02009HD
"Flyer Boy" focuses in on a young man who spends his days handing out flyers for a local Chinatown restaurant. His work is full of fleeting...
- 2014
Afternoon In
Afternoon In02014HD
An afternoon in to myself. Digging in inside. Ink spills: spilt nothing or at least no thing that I was fast enough to film. Light shines on mangled...