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The 2021 Jerusalem Design Week, themed Runaway Circus, explored hedonistic escape. The TAKEOFF exhibit transformed an attic into a surreal aircraft-inspired experience, blending fantasy and reality. Visitors stepped into mirrored units, confronting infinite reflections and the post-pandemic longing for travel. Unlike real flights, TAKEOFF offered no destination, focusing instead on introspection and transformation—suspended between places, realities, and climates, challenging the passage of time.

Interrogating the tension between physical and digital, simulation and stimulation, this real-time narrative is orchestrated across three distinct channels. By juxtaposing an iMessage chat, live system operations, and closed-captioned body sensations, the system demands a physical presence while revealing a bodylessness of its own.

The filmmaker joins her mother's annual visit to the house where the latter was born and raised in a village in Hong Kong. This house is still the home of the mother's 95-year-old father, the grandfather of the filmmaker, affectionately known as Gong Gong. The film spans several weeks, and follows the daily routine of the grandfather, mother and granddaughter, which takes place entirely in the compound of the house in the village. The shared and close stay reveals the different and changing relationships between the three generations, which exist in the face of deep gaps. Against the background of the lack of a common language, belonging to separate and distant cultures, differences in lifestyles and a gap between generations, the film describes a longing for closeness and seeks to examine the different forms through which intimacy can emerge.

The filmmaker joins her mother's annual visit to the house where the latter was born and raised in a village in Hong Kong. This house is still the home of the mother's 95-year-old father, the grandfather of the filmmaker, affectionately known as Gong Gong. The film spans several weeks, and follows the daily routine of the grandfather, mother and granddaughter, which takes place entirely in the compound of the house in the village. The shared and close stay reveals the different and changing relationships between the three generations, which exist in the face of deep gaps. Against the background of the lack of a common language, belonging to separate and distant cultures, differences in lifestyles and a gap between generations, the film describes a longing for closeness and seeks to examine the different forms through which intimacy can emerge.

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