Shorts Program 2 at the Los Angeles Chinese Film Festival

The Los Angeles Chinese Film Festival presents a collection of short films.

Hsiang Yi

On a summer afternoon, two brothers take the longest road home.

Fish Tank

The work Fish Tank has adopted a structure of multiple narratives, combining non-narrative and conscious images, The fictional, fragmental images and video clips have in fact been assembled and linked up with various ideologies and stories, with the effect of"breathing". With daily objects and shifts in graphic consciousness, this work displays various themes: the constraint of people and objects; the mass unconscious people getting constrained in space like fish in fish tanks ; and people's understanding of the multi-dimensional space and time in a fish tank. Like time and space, everyone has to circle back from beginning to the end-just like a Mobius strip.

The Test

The term "Hong Kong anchor babies " refers to children born in Hong Kong whose parents (usually from Mainland China) are not Hong Kong permanent residents. A mainland mother who isn’t a Cantonese gave birth in Hong Kong. In order to let her 3-year-old son pass the entrance examinations held by the kindergartens in Hong Kong, she begins to learn Cantonese with her son.

Winter Break

Winter Break is a tragicomedy about the subtleties in single family relationships. A daughter comes back from college in the U.S. to her home in China to unite with her single mother.  They come to discover that they no longer share the same behaviors and expectations.  The test of their bond emerges in a series of small moments over the course of the break.

Arnie

Docked at the port of Kaohsiung, Filipino seaman Arnie buys a ring with the help of his mates, to propose to his girlfriend back home. The supposedly happiest moment of his life soon takes a downward spiral when he finds out she is pregnant - but he is not the father of the child.

The Day Before Chinese New Year

The day before Chinese New Year, Mr. Monkey chopped the wood, lit-up the fire, cooked the food as if nothing was gonna happen; Eventually, nothing ever happened.

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