Heart Murmurs
Director：Dorothy Cheung
Screenwriter：None
Cast：None
Producer：None
Cinematographer：None
Running Time：9 min
Region：Hong Kong,China
Year：2023
Language：Cantonese
Production Company：None
SYNOPSIS
Heart Murmurs is a poetic dialogue between the filmmaker and Dean, a young man living in Hong Kong. Reflecting on his experience of living with a congenital disability and HIV, Dean expresses his sense of self in the face of regular medical challenges.
Director Biography
Dorothy Cheung (b. 1987) is a filmmaker and artist from Hong Kong. Her practice explores the notion of identities and home through a double perspective – personal and political, memory and forgetfulness. Her moving-image works are internationally exhibited in Whitney Museum of American Art, Kunstinstituut Melly (formerly known as Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art) and EYE Filmmuseum, and selected for film festivals including International Film Festival Rotterdam, Leeds International Film Festival, Seoul Women’s Film Festival, Taiwan International Documentary Festival, South Taiwan Film Festival and Queer Lisboa.
Director's Statement
I made this work in 2023. At that time, in 2013, I worked for a few months in an HIV/AIDS organization. I learned a lot about the disease, but more importantly, how HIV/AIDS would create tensions of control and trust in relationships. The protagonist of this documentary faces issues of social class, relationships, and genetic disease. His rare disease also means that there is no known antidote, even the doctors have no suggestion. But as he said, to our own bodies, we should be creative and find ways to work with our bodies. We should think about it together.
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