Movement

Directed by Alice Rensy and Andreas Guzman

This film is a short impressionistic record of Eaton HK’s 24 Hours Movement Festival in 2019, conceived as a homage to Hong Kong. Its original dance performances feature choreography ranging in scale from small physical gestures to a city’s collective transformation.

Walking

Directed by Kong Kee

Walking by legendary cyberpunk Hong Kong animator Kong Kee (the creator of Dragon’s Delusion) was produced for his 2020 ‘Moon in the Water’ exhibition at Eaton HK's Tomorrow Maybe gallery. This animated short film captures the sentiments of displacement, isolation, and longing.

Street

Directed by Kong Kee

Street by legendary cyberpunk Hong Kong animator Kong Kee (the creator of Dragon’s Delusion) was produced for his 2020 ‘Moon in the Water’ exhibition at Eaton HK's Tomorrow Maybe gallery. This animated short film plays much like a visual diary, capturing the irreversibility of life thereby rendering every moment as unique to an experience, time, and feeling.

River

Directed by Kong Kee

River by legendary cyberpunk Hong Kong animator Kong Kee (the creator of Dragon’s Delusion) was produced for his 2020 ‘Moon in the Water’ exhibition at Eaton HK's Tomorrow Maybe gallery. This animated short film captures the sentiment of a post-apocalyptic city as everything is washed away: rubbish bins, street signs, relics, lovers and dreams.

Like A Stone Vain Hope

Directed by Natalie Lo Lai Lai 

A three-minute video-art piece where a woman interrogates a plant, trying to tease out responses in vain. Holding nature up as a mirror for mankind, Lo’s photography, videos and installations reflect on a myriad of topics, from survival and supply chains to religion and freedom. But the artist is also hyper-aware of her own limitations in articulating nature – “after all, I’m a human being”. …

The Condor and the Eagle

Directed by Clement and Sophie Guerra

Never-before-seen images expose the global rise of land and water protectors across the Americas. Midst of the burning of the Amazon, the mega-fires in Australia, and the global climate strikes, this award-winning documentary documents the ongoing collective climate awakening and the imperative of urgent change. Facing this overwhelming current political climate, a great many people are looking for answers that are adapted to today’s urgency. As world climate scientists predict unprecedented global catastrophe, “The Condor & The Eagle” features Indigenous women leaders deploying unparalleled global response.

This Is My Home

Directed by Gaby Magallanes

Activist Holok Chen revisits his homeland in the ecologically significant wetlands of Nam Sang Wai, in the New Territories of Hong Kong—a region that is a point of contention between developers and conservationists. This short film is a meditation on land and its development, and how we come to find a home somewhere in between.

Mother's Heartbeat

Directed and Produced by Eaton Workshop

 A week after his viral confrontation with a group of MAGA hat-wearing teenagers on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, Nathan Phillips, an Omaha elder and water protector, speaks from a tender heart. This short film is a glimpse of a long, emotional conversation on a rainy night at Eaton Radio in D.C. It’s neither a caricature nor a polemic. It’s just Nate, in his words.

The Land

Directed by Jesse Littlebird

Director Jesse Littlebird, a Pueblo filmmaker from Albuquerque, asks “Who are these Americans?” with this evocative visual poem inspired by Kerouac, shot in seven days on a cross-country trip from L.A. to D.C. charting the historic and contemporary environmental justice struggles faced by communities of color. Jesse and the Eaton founding team journeyed across Turtle Island, centering the voices of Natives and POC and subverting the Great American Road Trip by listening to the heartbeat of the nation. This film weaves together vignettes from a Native American community fighting the Bayou Bridge oil pipeline in Louisiana, a Vietnamese-American community protesting the construction of a landfill and a power plant in their neighborhoods, a former slavery plantation in South Carolina and more. 

No Justice No Pride

Co-directed by Katie Petitt and Sean Mattison

No Justice No Pride (NJNP) is a D.C.-based activist group working to end complicity and oppression in the LGBTQ+ movement that marginalizes queer and trans individuals. The group's members come together to recognize that there can be no pride for some without liberation for all. This 9-minute film centers around NJNP and its director Emmelia Talarico and organizing trainer Tiara Moten. In addition to finding ways to organize and raise awareness around the NJNP non-profit, Emmelia and Tiara provide housing and resources for transgender women in D.C., with the goal of creating long-term, holistic solutions to the systemic problems faced by trans communities. 

Hibakusha

Directed by Luke Adams

American bomber the Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, killing 135,000 people and forever changing the world. Michiko Kodama is one of few living people who survived it, as a 7 year old girl. Now, she’s a global ambassador for peace and nuclear disarmament. In this short film, she shares her experience to inspire future generations to end the use of nuclear weapons.

Dreamrave

Directed by Adrian Yu

In an age of technological overreach, Dreamrave—a multimedia and electronic music installation co-curated by Eaton Workshop and Offline Projects that takes place during Art Basel —interrogates the intersection of the digital and physical via collective dreaming. Dreamrave originally existed as a four-act installation, which transformed Eaton HK into an ambient dream space, mimicking the stages of sleep, with visuals generated by online and in-person participants. This film, which shares its title, is an experimental art film that aims to capture the visceral experience of visiting the exhibition.