Break No.1 & Break No.2

Break No.1 & Break No.2

休息一下

Unclassified 18+
Dir. Lei Lei / 2024 / 18 mins / China / Mandarin / Experimental / Australian Premiere

A thrillingly bold montage of still images and video work that pays tribute to memory and time.

An exploration of the fragility of memory and the moving image, this two-part film is a consistently inventive work of imagination. In the first episode, a silent narrator contemplates his friend’s suicide over dreamy, rainbow-coloured archival images, while the second finds him floating through a hall of videos, haunted by the spectre of government censorship. A fascinating blend of love, loss, cinema and materiality.

Tickets

14 Aug 8:45pm ACMI 2
Access: Assistive listening Wheelchair Accessible 100 percent subtitled
Past Session
18 Aug 11:15am ACMI 2
Access: Assistive listening Wheelchair Accessible 100 percent subtitled
Past Session

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