11th Annual DC APA Film Festival

Fog

“Like wiping chalk off a blackboard.”
“Not everyone can rewind and restart like you…”

A young man wanders an empty schoolyard. Naturally suspicious, the principal asks him why he is there. He went to school there, the young man replies. Well, then you must remember me the principal says. And therein lies the dilemma, for Wai cannot remember his past. He has amnesia and this trip to the school is an attempt to reconnect to his past, to trigger some flash of recognition that may, his doctors hope, open the floodgates of his memory.

Everywhere he goes, Wai meets up with old friends and the first thing they say to him is “Remember…?” But he cannot. He has no memory of any of the people in his life… not his mother or sister… not his classmates and friends… nor any of his love interests. He struggles to recall even the most mundane detail. What would life be like with no past? How much of our lives are dependent on knowing what came before? This is the philosophical crux that Kit Hui’s magnificent new film Fog leaves us with.

The film has subtle, intense performances by Terence Yin as Wai and Eugenia Yuan (Charlotte Sometimes, DC APA 2002) as his ex. Excellent cinematography, editing and great music and sound make this film a must-see for any cinephile.
— Tad Doyle

Kit Hui, Director
Born in Hong Kong, Kit Hui received her MFA from Columbia University’s Graduate Film Program. Her thesis film, Missing, was selected for official competition at the Cannes Film Festival and has screened at numerous film festivals worldwide. Hui’s previous short film, A Rainy Day, won the top prize at the China-American Film Festival and the Best Cinematography award at the International Student Film Festival at Buenos Aires. Fog, a recipient of the Sundance Annenberg Grant, marks Kit Hui’s debut as a feature film director.

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This visually stunning live action experimental drama focuses on a young man’s psychological struggle, which erupts into visions that question what lies below the surface and is extended into an underwater environment that can be seen as nurturing, dangerous, inhospitable, safe, or distant.

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