A Long Walk
Elysa Wendi, Wai Shing Lee
Trailer
This film will be presented during the event La Nuit de la danse on March 16, 2023 at Théâtre Outremont.
A dancer rambles through a dark, endless tunnel. He is struggling, but somehow he keeps going. A Long Walk is a minimalist and contemplative metaphor for life’s ups and downs. Merging reality with visual imagery, the film reflects Malaysian dancer Ong Yong Lock’s inner world and the persistence he demonstrated while navigating the ebbs and flows of his 30-year career.
A dancer rambles through a dark, endless tunnel. He is struggling, but somehow he keeps going. A Long Walk is a minimalist and contemplative metaphor for life’s ups and downs. Merging reality with visual imagery, the film reflects Malaysian dancer Ong Yong Lock’s inner world and the persistence he demonstrated while navigating the ebbs and flows of his 30-year career.
| Director | Elysa Wendi, Lee Wai Shing |
| Director of Photography | Cheung Pak Ming |
| Production | Unlock Dancing Plaza |
| Artistic Direction | Wong Liang Yih |
| Editing | Lee Wai Shing |
| Cast | Joseph Lee, Ong Yong Lock |
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Image tirée du film A Long Walk // Image from the film A Long Walk
Image tirée du film A Long Walk // Image from the film A Long Walk
Production
Elysa Wendi
Elysa Wendi is a dance artist and filmmaker working between Singapore and Hong Kong. Preoccupied with the abstraction of memory from place, time and biographical traces, Wendi explores these themes in her live and filmic works. Straddling between disciplines, Wendi develops her films with a choreographic eye and performative approach. Her short film “1958 Delivery” won the Best Experimental Film award at the 2018 South Taiwan Film Festival, and her film Forgive or Not to Forgive won Best Documentary at Hong Kong ArtHouse Film Festival 2020. She co-founded Cinemovement — a platform for inter-disciplinary film creation together with film producer Jeremy Chua in 2015.
Biographical notes provided by the film production team
Biographical notes provided by the film production team
As I Imagine My Body Moving (2022)
If Forest Remembered (2021)
Someday I Will Become A Rock (2019)
Stay If You Can / Go If You Must (2019)
If Forest Remembered (2021)
Someday I Will Become A Rock (2019)
Stay If You Can / Go If You Must (2019)
Wai Shing Lee
Lee Wai Shing studied Visual Communication and started his career as an independent filmmaker after graduation. In 2019, he won the Gold Award at the ifva Festival with “Family Family Day”. Lee is well known for his diversified improvisation and experimental video-editing style. In recent years, he started to create dance videos. His work “A Rock” won the Jury Prize at the 5th Dance On Screen Film Festival. Lee was the Production Assistant of Chinese Independent Documentary Lab. He is one of the founding members of an independent film ensemble 1930 collective.
Biographical notes provided by the film production team
Biographical notes provided by the film production team
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