Daisies + SUGAR【The 13th Hong Kong Independent Film Festival】Hong Kong Independent Film Festival

🔻 Daisies
Director： Věra Chytilová
Czech | 1966 | 74 min | B&W, Colour
In Czech with English subtitles

Known for her playful and experimental style, director Věra Chytilová puts together a kaleidoscopic world in this iconic Czech New Wave film—a surrealist rebuke of the oppressive times. The film starts with black-and-white historic images of war, as the two main characters takes center stage in their swimsuits. Like a pair of marionettes that has lost their souls, they capriciously decide that the world is “spoiled” and their response is to turn the world upside down with their mischievous ways. Its surprise mix of food, butterflies, human bodies, and flowers is an aesthetic feast that may seem nonsensical at first glance, but its sharp critique on patriarchy and authoritarianism is crystal clear. Daisies is an unstoppable revolutionary march that has never ceased to be funny.

Goethe Institut Presents
Oberhausen International Short Film Festival’s Selection

🔻 SUGAR
Director：Bjørn Melhus
Germany | 2019 | 21 min | Colour
In English with English subtitles

SUGAR takes a leap to the post-apocalyptic world, where humans go underground while their senses are dulled by technology. Yet Sugar the sophisticated robot has acquired the ability to think and feel. When a robot is livelier than a human, what does it tell us about our kind?