Simon Liu Movies

  • 2021
    Devil's Peak

    Devil's Peak

    Devil's Peak

    52021HD

    In the hyperkinetic multichannel video installation Devil’s Peak, Simon Liu surveys the psychogeography of Hong Kong as a feverish dreamscape,...

    Devil's Peak
  • 2020
    Signal 8

    Signal 8

    Signal 8

    6.12020HD

    Simon Liu's eerie, entrancing portrait of contemporary Hong Kong tracks a series of strange disruptions to the city's urban infrastructure....

    Signal 8
  • 1994
    Family Affairs

    Family Affairs

    Family Affairs

    01994HD

    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...

    Family Affairs
  • 2019
    E-Ticket

    E-Ticket

    E-Ticket

    72019HD

    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...

    E-Ticket
  • 2017
    Highview

    Highview

    Highview

    82017HD

    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...

    Highview
  • 2020
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    02020HD

    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...

    - force -
  • 2023
    Let's Talk

    Let's Talk

    Let's Talk

    02023HD

    Produced during the 25th anniversary of Hong Kong’s handover from Great Britain to Mainland China in the wake of cataclysmic regional changes,...

    Let's Talk
  • 2018
    Star Ferry

    Star Ferry

    Star Ferry

    82018HD

    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...

    Star Ferry
  • 2024
    Single File

    Single File

    Single File

    72024HD

    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...

    Single File
  • 2021
    Happy Valley

    Happy Valley

    Happy Valley

    72021HD

    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...

    Happy Valley
  • 2018
    Sneyd Green

    Sneyd Green

    Sneyd Green

    62018HD

    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...

    Sneyd Green
  • 2014
    Donkey Riding

    Donkey Riding

    Donkey Riding

    72014HD

    This past summer I spent a month in Hong Kong with my family in the house I grew up in.

    Donkey Riding
  • 2015
    Harbour City

    Harbour City

    Harbour City

    62015HD

    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...

    Harbour City
  • 2018
    Fallen Arches

    Fallen Arches

    Fallen Arches

    02018HD

    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...

    Fallen Arches
  • 2022
    Hide & Seek

    Hide & Seek

    Hide & Seek

    02022HD

    Hide & Seek offers a layered reflection of Liu’s body of work, playfully repurposing images of urban spaces and personal histories. Composed...

    Hide & Seek
  • 1970
    Refuse Room

    Refuse Room

    Refuse Room

    01970HD

    Tangled spirals, rapid encounters, a quiet war between the vertical and the horizontal: Simon Liu’s Refuse Room captures Hong Kong’s...

    Refuse Room
  • 2012
    Ditchwork

    Ditchwork

    Ditchwork

    02012HD

    Ditchwork uses intimate physicality, folk-tale themes, and lush imagery to imaginatively fill in the blanks of a family history that is, like every...

    Ditchwork
  • 2015
    Shuffle Cove

    Shuffle Cove

    Shuffle Cove

    02015HD

    Harmony (n.) a consistent, orderly, or pleasing arrangement of parts; congruity. Forgive my nerves— rattling of my subjective coloring and...

    Shuffle Cove
  • 2009
    Flyer Boy

    Flyer Boy

    Flyer Boy

    02009HD

    "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...

    Flyer Boy
  • 2014
    Afternoon In

    Afternoon In

    Afternoon In

    02014HD

    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...

    Afternoon In