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Little Shop of Grotesque
Little Shop of Grotesque
Director: Hung Tsz-ching

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Production Country Hong Kong
Production Year 2017
Duration 23'00
Colour Colour
Language In Cantonese with Chinese and English subtitles
Genre Drama
Shooting Format HD
Synopsis Flower shop employee Molly has a passion for flowers and plants, she understands that plants are intellectual and capable of communication. With acute sensitivity she could quickly locate and exterminate bugs hidden in the plants. Up in the shop’s attic is where she experiments in breeding a brand new species of flower, which makes no progress and stays a bud only. New co-worker Anna joins the shop, it was not long before Molly noticed sound of insect crawling and buzzing comes from within Anna’s body and becomes distressingly bothered…
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Remarks shared after Festival
Since it was a Chinese-culture-orientated
festival, more than half of the attending audience were Chinese people residing
or students studying in the UK. The Q&A session of Fresh Wave short films
after screening had become an almost-political debate, on contemporary Chinese
cinema versus Hong Kong film industry. Audience were curious about the changes
in the trend of creative work in Hong Kong.. [More]
Since it was a Chinese-culture-orientated
festival, more than half of the attending audience were Chinese people residing
or students studying in the UK. The Q&A session of Fresh Wave short films
after screening had become an almost-political debate, on contemporary Chinese
cinema versus Hong Kong film industry. Audience were curious about the changes
in the trend of creative work in Hong Kong. When talking about how productions
have shifted to mainland China, and how the China market and funding sources
are influencing the creative process, we expressed concerns towards how
censorship is harming creativity. We believe the freedom of expressing opinion
through creating art is what makes Hong Kong a valuable treasure.





— Shared by Hung Tsz-ching, director of Little Shop of Grotesque after attending
the Chinese Visual Festival in the United Kingdom, under the sponsorship of
NAE.

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