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About the Filmmaker

Rajat is a visual artist from Delhi, having finished his Masters in Media Arts and Practices in Europe. He is currently pursuing his PhD in Hong Kong. Specialising in disciplines of Video Art, Printmaking and Digital Collages, his works resonate between theory and praxis. His films and projects locate harmony between digital and analogue workflows. The political implications of his art do not rest on the reproduction of the subject matter but alter the social (and historical) reality through new modes of representation. These are not centred around replicating reality as one experiences it in our everyday lives but expose the contradictions of reality, thus revealing that social reality is not natural but perhaps subject to change. This formal abstraction allows him to politicise the aspects of social life one considers unquestionable. His academic research primarily focuses on decoloniality, anti imperialism and perversions to statist ideologies in mainstream films and televisions.He has showcased his works and films at exhibitions and festivals across Europe and Asia.

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Synopsis

Rejected by more than thirty landlords and agents across Hong Kong, the artist (rajat sharma) eventually finds a subdivided flat in Sham Shui Po, a low income neighbourhood pulsating with the rhythms of working-class life and adorned by a South and Southeast Asian population. As he soon realises that the urban redevelopment has cleaved Sham Shui Po into two parts, he finds himself situated between the liminal space that bridges these contrasting worlds. Through the voices of its inhabitants, the artist unravels the intricate narratives of Sham Shui Po's past, present, (potential futures?) and the evolving essence that binds its divergent halves.