Four women, one scanner, and the ghosts of empire clicking through a machine.
A poetic, experimental portrait of four Hong Kong women in London working to digitise records of the handover agreement between the United Kingdom and China. Impressionistic and precise, personal and expansive, Cheung's elegant, eloquent work decodes history and how politics are enacted.
Direction
Cheung finds visual poetry in the mundane act of scanning.
Editing
Seamless weaving of personal testimony and state documents.
Director
Dorothy Cheung
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 'handover agreement' digitised here is the 1984 Sino-British Joint Declaration, now increasingly treated as a dead letter by Beijing.
Cheung filmed during the 2019-2020 protests; the women's careful, quiet labour becomes a counter-image to street confrontation.
No ratings yet
Sign in to join the discussion — comments are spoiler-gated to your watch progress.
Discussion starters
HK
NL
