Elysa Wendi is a Hong Kong–based artist and filmmaker. Since 2008, she has explored choreographic ideas through film, performance and curatorial projects. Her work examines memory detached from place, time and biography. Her short film 1958 Delivery won Best Experimental Film at the South Taiwan Film Festival (2018), and Forgive or Not to Forgive received Best Documentary at the Hong Kong Arthouse Film Festival (2020).
As I Imagine My Body Moving
As I Imagine My Body Moving
As I Imagine My Body Moving
Synopsis
After a sudden health crisis, a former dancer confronts a buried wound carried for over twenty years. The film explores kinaesthetic separation between body and consciousness, where illness fractures time, space and self-perception. In states of immobilisation and depersonalisation, the body reveals an autonomy beyond conscious control.
Elysa Wendi: 'In organising my personal archives, I witness my body across time — the connection between past and present, and the persistent fragility beneath. The film moves freely through space and time via improvised editing and collage, an ironic counterpoint to my own immobility following repeated trauma.'
Festivals & Awards
2022 Jumping Frames - Hong Kong
2024 South Taiwan FF
Director's Profile
Elysa WENDI
Filmography
2012 One Min of Breath
2013 Mountain and a Flower
2017 1958 Delivery
2019 Someday I Will Become a Rock
2019 Stay If You Can / Go If You Must
2019 Forgive or Not to Forgive
2019 Room 525
2022 As I Imagine My Body Moving
2023 Room 404
Credit
Editor｜Shing LEE, Elysa WENDI
Sound Design｜Ellison Bryan Kong
Cinematographer｜Shing LEE, Elysa WENDI, CHAN Hau-chun
Print Source
Elysa WENDI｜elysawendi@gmail.com
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