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Caspiar

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In 1998, the island of Caspiar sinks, forcing all its inhabitants to flee and become refugees in places such as Hong Kong. Su’s fictional story about one such refugee unfolds through a seemingly stoic interview. The interviewee – a French-speaking white man – works as a domestic worker, a role that subverts colonial expectations of the white expatriate living in Hong Kong. The video concludes with a quotation from the famous “madeleine” passage in Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time, foregrounding the centrality of memory and recollection in the reimagination of places, identities and histories.

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  • TMDB

    5.0/10

    1 votes

Status
Released
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Language
English

Behind the camera

Director

Angela Su

Produced in

Hong Kong

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Release dates

  • Hong KongHK

    • Theatrical (limited)1 Jul 2017
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Caspiar was released on 1 July 2017.

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