Hou Chi-jan: Director’s Q&A
Closing the first series this special Q&A session will give attendees the opportunity to ask questions and discuss with the director
30 October, 2020 2:00 pm
The Hou family’s cat has disappeared in a night of torrential rain; they say if you point a pair of scissors to your doorstep and silently call the cat’s name, a mysterious force will lead your cat back. Half a world away, I silently call my cat’s name, and my memories take me across the waters of the underworld, as things I have lost in the past now stand before my eyes. As the scissors slice time open, can the cat find its way home? Composed of video clips and photographs shot on mobile phones and interlaced with old news footage as well as the director’s family photos, this short film is an extremely personal account of a family’s private history and traumas, which becomes tied in with a former stray cat.
