Simon Liu's eerie, entrancing portrait of contemporary Hong Kong tracks a series of strange disruptions to the city's urban infrastructure. Deceptively tranquil 16mm images of everyday life are accompanied by muffled music cues, ominous radio transmissions, and intimations of an impending hazardous event that may never arrive.
A film sixteen thousand splices in the making. E-Ticket is a frantic (re)cataloguing of a personal archive and an opportunity for rebirth to forgotten images. 35mm photographs and moving pictures are obsessively cut apart, reshuffled then tape spliced together inch by inch in rigid increments. My photographs may have all been cut up and mixed around, but at least they’re all in one place now. A retelling of Dante's Inferno for the streaming age; a freedom of movement reserved for the modern cloud.
The always-serious rock and roller Spence (Eric Kuehnemann) receives an invitation to visit his ex Monika (Nikki Belfiglio) at her trendy new friend Catherine's (Rose Blanshei), but doesn't expect a party full of EDM-heads and masked revelers, including drug-dealing bad-boy JR (Madison Welles). Full of paranoia and yearning for Monika's attention, Spence struggles to navigate his way out of the 'little labyrinth.'
