Music Video Appreciation Club: Simon Liu

Did you know that some of our most visionary film directors like Spike Jonze and Michel Gondry started with music videos? Masterful MV directors don't just illustrate songs—they elevate them into cinematic experiences with craft and experimentation. So we thought, why not screen them like we would a feature length film? Join us for the launch of a new monthly series - the ✨Music Video Appreciation Club✨, bringing in an hour-long of MVs curated by our favourite creatives. With drinks and popcorn, we encourage you to enjoy experimental filmmaking while discovering new music the old way - through friends instead of the algorithm. 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩 Artist-filmmaker Simon Liu will show a series of skateboarding video clips he grew up watching in early 2000s and discuss how they influenced his moving image practice. His selection considers alternative uses of civic space, interactive approaches of camera perspective, and the joys of disobedience. Alongside these skate clips, Liu will screen several of his recent short films, ending with an artist sharing. Simon Liu (b. Hong Kong, 1987) is an artist filmmaker whose practice centers on the rapidly evolving psychological and sociopolitical landscapes of his homeland of Hong Kong through material abstraction, speculative history, and subversion of documentary cinema practices via short films, multi-channel video installations, mixed media prints, and 16mm projection performances.