What does the only surviving reel of a feature-length silent film urgently tell us about the fragility of the medium?

In collaboration with the Asian Film Archive (AFA) for their 20th anniversary, Perspectives Film Festival (PFF) presents a special event in conjunction with this year’s theme: Tradition & Modernity.

We will be screening the remaining 23-minute segment of Hou Yao’s A Poet from the Sea (1927) that follows a quixotic poet who seeks to escape the constraints of modernity along the shores of Stanley, Hong Kong.

Alongside talks by AFA’s programmer Natalie Khoo and senior archivist Chew Tee Pao, about film preservation, archiving and restoration, the session will also include a programming talk with Q&A by PFF programmers and co-festival advisor Eternality Tan.

Date: 11 Oct, Saturday
Time: 1.30pm-4.00pm
Location: Imagination Room @ National Library