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Colleen Kwok

Born

1987-11-07 (38)

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Credits

7 titles

Born in Beijing and raised in Hong Kong, Colleen begins making analogue, experimental films when she studied at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She moved to New York in 2011 and graduated from the MFA writing/directing program of Tisch-New York University. Her directorial works includes Rectangibles, premiered at Edinburgh International Film Festival and established her style of storytelling; The Stars The Sun The Moon, shot in Hong Kong on 35mm, was supported by the Hong Kong Fresh Wave International Film Grant; and That is Circling All Round the Sun, a landscape driven piece shot at the Spiral Jetty in Utah and currently in festival circuit. As a cinematographer, she has shot films …

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Behind the camera

The Stars The Sun The Moon poster
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On a random night of summer 1998, two good friends from a boarding school travel through time to 15 years ahead by pure happenstance. Wandering in the same neighbourhood where they were still growing up, they discover changes in their friends and loved ones - some of which are inevitable. Places which they enjoyed moments ago became remnants of the past while other shops appear to be timeless. In this magical tale which is also a social commentary, the two children seek to understand the world and themselves in 2013 through their innocent minds, and perhaps learn the first lesson on the passage of time.

The Stars The Sun The Moon

2014

The Stars The Sun The Moon poster
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On a random night of summer 1998, two good friends from a boarding school travel through time to 15 years ahead by pure happenstance. Wandering in the same neighbourhood where they were still growing up, they discover changes in their friends and loved ones - some of which are inevitable. Places which they enjoyed moments ago became remnants of the past while other shops appear to be timeless. In this magical tale which is also a social commentary, the two children seek to understand the world and themselves in 2013 through their innocent minds, and perhaps learn the first lesson on the passage of time.

The Stars The Sun The Moon

2014

From Hong Kong to Raufar­höfn: the Birt­hday Archives poster
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When filmmaker Colleen travels to Raufarhöfn—a tiny, vibrant town on Iceland’s northern edge—she retraces the year her classmate Brian spent there 17 years earlier. Bound by a shared birthday and parallel journeys, their stories weave a meditation on diaspora, serendipity, and the quiet ways places shape us.

From Hong Kong to Raufar­höfn: the Birt­hday Archives

2026

From Hong Kong to Raufar­höfn: the Birt­hday Archives poster
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When filmmaker Colleen travels to Raufarhöfn—a tiny, vibrant town on Iceland’s northern edge—she retraces the year her classmate Brian spent there 17 years earlier. Bound by a shared birthday and parallel journeys, their stories weave a meditation on diaspora, serendipity, and the quiet ways places shape us.

From Hong Kong to Raufar­höfn: the Birt­hday Archives

2026

That Is Circling All Around The Sun poster
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A young man from Hong Kong comes to America to look for his long-lost sister, without learning her fatal accident. In Utah, instead of finding her, he finds a special landscape where it echoes her soul.

That Is Circling All Around The Sun

2017

That Is Circling All Around The Sun poster
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A young man from Hong Kong comes to America to look for his long-lost sister, without learning her fatal accident. In Utah, instead of finding her, he finds a special landscape where it echoes her soul.

That Is Circling All Around The Sun

2017

Rectangibles poster
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Two teenagers find a collection of Kodachrome film and must rush to have it developed before the last facility still developing it closes down.

Rectangibles

2014