Angela

Dunet CHAN Sheung Shing

Release year: 2015

Run time: 25 minutes

Film type: Fiction

All clothes have a story to tell. Ma was about to close the Angela laundry shop for the day when Sham appeared. A young man with a head injury and handful of dirty clothes from his stay at the street during the Umbrella Movement, Sham needs his clothes washed. Full of passion for the social cause, Sham initially chided Ma for staying in the comfort of the shop. However, these two strangers slowly opened up to each other when a number of characters passed by the shop, revealing the tumultuous world behind Ma’s stoic silence. Sham also gained new insight on meaningfulness, which exists not only within a worthy cause but also at seemingly abandoned clothes.

Dunet Chan Sheung Shing is a Hong Kong-based filmmaker who graduated with an MA in Fine Arts from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Still Life is his first feature film. The documentary was awarded the Best Experimental Film prize at the Veneto International Film Festival and received the Best Documentary award at the Indian Independent Film Festival. The film was additionally selected for screening at the Swedish International Film Festival. Chan’s script and direction of the short film Angela (2015) won the Best Creativity Award at the Fresh Wave International Short Film Festival. From 2015 to 2018, he directed three episodes of the popular television series Below the Lion Rock (1972–ongoing) for Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK).

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