One-Way Street on a Turntable poster

One-Way Street on a Turntable

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This essay film is about Hong Kong as a place, or rather as a series of places, each with their own series of histories. Mak is after public and private histories, and the ways they commingle, intertwine and sometimes even obliterate each other. Her materials are multiple: she takes what she calls “appropriated archival footage and propaganda films from the 60s and 70s done by the British Hong Kong Government," and cuts, loops, zooms, slows and manipulates them to make striking distortions. To these “official” materials, made strange through video manipulation, Mak adds black-and-white Super 8 video of her own, digitally altered to sometimes look battered and archival, highly worked into a beautifully ghostly, grainy, evanescently visible texture. Images are juxtaposed promiscuously in double and quadruple frames, often paired images of intangibly related material, elegantly matched to be thought provoking as well as to offer visual delight.

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Status
Released
Budget
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Box office
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Language
Cantonese

Behind the camera

Director

Anson Mak

Produced in

Hong Kong

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • Theatrical9 Feb 2006

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One-Way Street on a Turntable was released on 9 February 2006.

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