Type I Film / Documentaries / Performance

Client l Hong Kong Dance Company

​​Role l Cinematographer

Production House l Storeroom No.9

Year l 2022

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Synopsis: 

OPERA

Like Them, Like Us is a documentary that follows the making of Love Streams, a dance-opera that fuses two operas—Heart of Coral, a biopic of female Republican writer Xiao Hong, and Women Like Us, a combination of two short stories by Hong Kong author Xi Xi—with gripping dance movements. In this tender, cinematic look at the creative process and rehearsals involving singers and dancers from Hong Kong Dance Company, the personal lives of these performers overlap with those of the characters they play, far removed by time and space, in a way they could never have imagined.

Oscillating between video essay and documentary, the film weaves interviews, opera lyrics and behind-the-scenes rehearsals footage into an intricate web of inter-generational conversations about life and death between women, real and fictional. 

歌劇

三個女子，兩段故事，一個舞台。 

《像她們這樣的女子》是舞蹈歌劇《兩生花》的幕後創作紀錄，同時也呈現演創人員的心路歷程。《兩生花》是一齣兩幕舞蹈歌劇，分別結合了講述民國女作家蕭紅一生的《蕭紅》歌劇和改編自香港作家西西兩篇小說的《兩個女子》歌劇。紀錄片採訪了主創藝術家、參演《兩生花》的歌者、幾位香港舞蹈團舞者並紀錄其排練過程，通過她們與劇中人物的跨世代生死對話，交織出一個另類香港故事。 

電影以劇中人物及歌詞為切入點，將不同訪問片段以及幕後花絮交叉剪輯，並引導表演者與自己飾演的角色互相凝視、對照，進而把她們的內心世界嫁接到虛實交錯、疑幻似真的舞台空間，讓觀眾共同踏上一段自我和解之旅。