Just Dance: NAMIAINITE
A dancer creates her own rhythms responding to the ebbing tides of an ever-changing natural landscape
GROUNDED
Films celebrating our connection to nature, in honour of Earth Day
NOWNESS Shorts: Chai-Coffi
Following her husband’s demise, 60-year-old Lata embarks on an unexpected journey away from home in search of solace
Poetic License: I am still here
A tender portrait of a tender person. Four days with poet Xiuhua Yu.
ART IN ACTION
Other Voices: China
A lesson in glamor from an effervescent drag queen in her eighth decade
Video Art Visions: Image
Human faces are glitched beyond recognition in this wild audio-visual experiment
Todd Selby x Christine Sun Kim
The Selby Profiles Deaf Performance Artist Sun Kim's Sonic Experiments
Private View: Artist is Not Present
The riveting inner world of Bhasha Chakrabarti. Directed by Shaikh Ayaz and Dhruvin.
Private View: Chen Wei
The man who wasn’t there
NOWNESS Experiments:
Ghost Like Us
Riar Rizaldi critically examines the trajectory of Indonesian horror films, from its roots as New Order propaganda to a subversive tactic repositioning rural filmmakers and audiences
ART & DESIGN
Animated and Offbeat:
When it was 2008
In a charming 3D-animated short, Alice Chen reflects on her hometown memories after studying abroad
Constructed Views: Ikigai
Discover the extraordinary tranquillity of a traditional Japanese house which has travelled 20,000 km – from the mountains of Japan to a town in Buenos Aires
Video Art Visions:
The Disappearing City
A personal reflection on loss and change under shifting power structures
FASHION & BEAUTY
America Fever - Miss Koreatown
Emanuel Hahn evokes nostalgia while honoring the Korean diaspora’s changing concepts of beauty in a heartfelt short inspired by K-Town pageants in 1980s and ’90s L.A.
NOWNESS Shorts:
A SHOT IN THE FOOT
A young woman moonlighting as an assassin becomes exposed to the dangers of LA’s underground when she flies too close to the sun
NOWNESS Experiments:
Soft Like Steel
A poetic and surreal vision of the future where machines and humans come together to protect the gift of sensitivity
CULTURE & LIFESTYLES
The Young Ones: Glorious Nightfall
A young Youtuber with hidden memories about his family briefly encounters a wandering Girl torn between worlds
NOWNESS Shorts: A Cold Summer Night
In a conformist Goan neighborhood, Ketan, a Maharashtrian migrant finds himself in cold sweat one fateful night
NOWNESS Shorts: A Distant Noise
Adriá Guxens directs an introspective docu-fiction short about a Spanish man of Asian descent torn between two cultures
MUSIC & DANCE
Just Dance: NAMIAINITE
A dancer creates her own rhythms responding to the ebbing tides of an ever-changing natural landscape
Yobi Alan: Snowball
Journey through Tbilisi in this atmospheric experimental music video featuring Yobi Alan
Just Dance: HAPPYLAND
An ode to one of the most impoverished slums in the Philippines, where hope emerges through chaos. Directed by Blake Atienza & featuring Vince "Crazy Beans" Mendoza
FOOD & TRAVEL
Portrait of a Place: Waterfruit
From the lake to the market, take a glimpse into the daily lives of a group of fishermen active in a small village in Burdwan, West Bengal
NOWNESS Shorts: Sweet Refuge
After going door-to-door with his fresh baklava, a refugee baker befriends a lady selling ladoo
Artists in Focus: Petr Davydtchenko
In Hong Kong, the Russian-born artist and “self-sustaining scavenger” collaborates with the “Snake Queen” and Alison Tan to demonstrate an unsettling anti-capitalist praxis of consumption over an experimental dinner
One on One
MOST WATCHED
LoveSick: The Third Solar Term
A teenager living in two worlds returns home to his mother during spring break. Things get complicated when a man he met online enters his “peaceful” family life.
MOST LOVED
NOWNESS Shorts: Miss World
A young Taiwanese woman grapples with her father’s incarceration through a rocky journey of self-destruction
SHARE THE LOVE
MORE TO LOVE
EXPERIMENTA 2024: The 12th International Festival of Moving Image Art in India
4 - 8th December: Experimenta 2024, the acclaimed biennial festival of experimental film and moving image art, returns for its 12th edition with an exciting lineup of both Indian and international films. The 2024 edition’s Program is focussed on Contemporary New cinema from Asia, South East Asia and its diaspora. The festival brings a selection of works that explore the tension of transformation—of societies in flux, landscapes reshaped, and identities refracted. Films from India, Hong Kong, Lebanon,Thailand, Egypt, Philippines, and Singapore—offer fresh perspectives and daring experimentation. Visit the Experimenta website to know more!
M+ presents Avant-Garde Now: Performing for the Camera
7th December, Hong Kong: M+ offers a day-long immersion into performance art on film, demonstrating how contemporary artists create at the intersection of performance and moving image. Featuring screenings, talks, and live performances by Eisa Jocson (Philippines), Florence Lam (Hong Kong), Melati Suryodarmo (Indonesia), and Kawita Vatanajyankur (Thailand), this lively programme explores the body’s relationship to spectacle, labour, capitalism, technology, endurance, vulnerability, and failure. Click to know more!
NOWNESS ASIA is Hiring
Accepting Applications for: Sales & Marketing Manager. Full-time position based in Hong Kong. Click to know more!