New // Upcoming book & film KWAI SHING WEST ESTATE
Release date - only available through the eponymous book via a QR code inside of it
«Hong Kong. A film, a portrait, a tribute to the atypical architecture of public housing - in particular, Kwai Shing West Estate - and its streets, but also to the loneliness experienced in these complexes where around half the population lives. Between March 2019 and January 2020, demonstrations filled these streets. Led by black protesters, mainly young people, they were defending their rights to democracy in Hong Kong. Out of a total population of 7.4 million, around 2 million demonstrators took to the streets a Sunday in June. The sound captured in the streets and on Kwai Shing West Estate has been modified and processed, by composer Lea Bertucci, to become a raw sound material, reflecting the image of these places where concrete is omnipresent. This is the theatre of a living environment and it was the theatre of protest, which is now punishable by life imprisonment in Hong Kong since a law came into force on July 1, 2020.»
“With the film Kwai Shing West Estate, Pascal Greco and musician Lea Bertucci have produced an impressionistic and above all impressive audiovisual work.” Philippe Simon, Le Temps.
The film has been selected in different film festival as the GIFF, Ecrans Urbains or the Solothurn Film Festival.
Avant-première of the film : Cinémas du Grütli, Genève : - 07.03.2024, 19h
Cinéma Bellevaux, Lausanne : - 25.04.2024, 19h30
The film is coproduced by the Mapping Festival. With the support of the City of Geneva and also of the Republic and the Canton of Geneva.
