E-TICKET

By Simon LIU

LIUFILMSLIU - as PROD

Animation - Completed 2019

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 forgotten images. 35mm photographs are obsessively cut apart and spliced together in rhythmic patterns. A retelling of Dante's Inferno for the streaming age.

Festivals
& Awards

Sheffield Doc/Fest 2019
Vision
International Film Festival Rotterdam 2019
Tiger Short Competition
Hong Kong International Film Festival 2019
Vienna Independent Shorts 2019
Sheffield Doc/Fest 2019
Athens International Film & Video Festival 2019
Maryland Film Festival 2019
Chicago Underground Film Festival 2019
    • Year of production
    • 2019
    • Genres
    • Animation, Experimental
    • Countries
    • HONG KONG (CHINA), USA
    • Languages
    • No dialog
    • Duration
    • 13 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Simon LIU
    • Producer(s)
    • Rachael LAWE (LiuFilmsLiu)
    • Synopsis
    • 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 forgotten images. 35mm photo negatives and moving pictures (taken during the artist's formative years) are obsessively cut apart, reshuffled then tape spliced together inch by inch in rigid increments. Fragmented views swipe between a school trip to India then culminate with a protest of a 2005 World Trade Organization summit in Hong Kong. My photographs may have all be cut up, mixed around and ruined; but at least they’re all in one place now. A retelling of Dante's Inferno for the streaming age; a freedom of movement reserved for the modern cloud.