Art Basel | Film | The Wildest Thing

These four films explore the tradition of storytelling as a way of understanding and passing on information about what it means to be human at a certain point in time. In Pyramids and Parabolas II, Alice Wang creates a surreal video collage that examines the relationship between our corporal bodies and the infinite and unknowable cosmos. In Sonata for Smoke, Samson Young presents an audiovisual journey that chronicles the different phases of his residency in Kyoto. In Sorry for the Late Reply, Wong Ping brings color to the world of repressed individual desires with a phantasmagoric animated story involving a strange obsession with varicose veins. And while the protagonist of So Yo Hen’s Goodnight, see you later is a white duvet, the way the inanimate object squirms and slithers to life under the hands of two marionettists evokes the artist’s own restlessness and the shared sense of anxiety that has dogged society since the onset of the pandemic.

Art Basel presents a program of three screenings featuring 15 films by and about artists, held at Louis Koo Cinema, Hong Kong Art Centre. The Film sector is curated by Li Zhenhua.

For more details, please refer to artbasel.com/hongkong/film.

According to the Prevention and Control of Disease (Requirements and Directions) (Business andPremises) Regulation (Cap. 599F), here are the latest arrangements from 21 April to 29 April 2022:

• No eating or drinking inside a house is allowed.• Upon entering the cinema, all patrons must wear a face mask and submit to a temperature check.• Alternate seating will be implemented, and must be observed, at all screenings.• “LeaveHomeSafe” mandatory at cinema• Present the valid printed COVID-19 vaccination record or Medical Exemption Certificate with QR code, orthe relevant QR code stored in the 'LeaveHomeSafe', “iAM Smart” or “eHealth” mobile application on their mobile devicefor scanning using the latest version of the “QR Code Verification Scanner”mobile application developed by the Government, upon entering the cinema.