서울국제여성영화제

주 메뉴

as a bird that briefly perches

Dorothy CHEUNG

Hong Kong, United Kingdom
2025
17min
G
DCP
color

Korean Premiere

Synopsis

Departing from the personal experience as a diasporic artist, this three-part video work is a cinematic diary that weaves together her 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.

Code	Time	Theater	Grade
Asian Shorts 1015	2026-08-21 \| 15:00 - 16:36	MEGABOX Sinchon 5
Asian Shorts 1081	2026-08-24 \| 13:00 - 14:36	MEGABOX Sinchon 4

Director

Dorothy CHEUNG

Dorothy Cheung is an artist from Hong Kong. She works with moving-image and poetry to examine identity and home from both personal and political angles, focusing on memory and forgetting. Her moving-image works have been screened at the Whitney Museum of American Art, EYE Filmmuseum, Objectifs, and M+, and internationally at festivals, including the IFF Rotterdam, the Asian Avant-Garde Film Festival, the London Short Film Festival, and the Taiwan Intl. Documentary Festival.