FRI 11 SEPT
The Muse ART GALLERY
269 Portobello Road, W11 1LR




Asian Films


6 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.

4 : 4
Hongxiang. Zhou. Experimental 3 mins U Shanghai.
A square study of multiple situations, exploring the life and vitality of objects.
Concrete, abstract, tangible, and disorderly.
The interpretation of the concepts of mathematics and physics, the long and short vitality, presents a variety of possibilities in the unknown state.

Allegory of the Cave
Huang Weipeng,Wang Yajing. Experimental 8 mins. 12A China.
The world and I are lost in the maze.

Wild Cursive
Hongxiang. Zhou. Experimental 6 mins U Shanghai.
Grass script in Chinese calligraphy.
The most indulgent type of cursive script.
The strokes are continuous and winding, and the shapes are wildly varied.
Like a dance with life.

Infinite and boundless
Hongxiang. Zhou. Experimental 31 mins U Shanghai.
A recording of thoughts and imagination during a flight. Singing the
Diamond Sutra with two Q&A sessions between Buddha and his disciple
Subhuti to extend the questioning of doubts in today's world. An all
encompassing and bizarre journey, individual and collective thoughts,
inexplicable celestial phenomena, and the impermanence of the universe. The world is full of confusion and confusion!

Windows@Wheel of Nature
Hongxiang. Zhou. Experimental 12 mins U Shanghai.
The world is a big window, and home is a small window. In the window era of the Internet,you can see a lot of the world. The longing for freedom, equality, and happiness hasformed the circulation and nomadism of human beings since ancient times. Countries,territories, and borders become walls, and power, race, and identity issue cards, joys andsorrows, dreams and disappointments. There are successes and failures, and differentstories are derived around people.

The La s t Da y of Fe br ua r y
Al i s he r Abdr a khym. Family Drama 29 mins.15 Kazakhstan
Vitek, a troubled young man, seeks out his younger brother Pepa - a well adjusted adoptee with a stable home life - for help.

THE TIME TO MELT CHOCOLATE
PARK BO YOUNG. Drama 17 mins. 12. REPUBLIC OF KOREA.
IN A HOUSE WHERE SHE LIVES ALONE, HAJIN RELIES ON CHOCOLATE TO ENDURE EACH DAY. AN UNEXPECTED MEMORY DISRUPTS HER ROUTINE,
FORCING HER TO CONFRONT THE EMPTINESS SHE HAS BEEN AVOIDING.

TRUST
Tomofumi. Inoue. SF/Noir. 11 mins. 12A Japan
Violet, an AI detective, is assigned to question Mia, a defiant youth. But upon hearing Violet’s name, Mia reveals a shocking truth. In this sealed interrogation room, what revelation awaits?

Life goes on
Vardanyan Mery. Drama. 20 mins. 12A. Armenia
Even in the simplest routines lie unseen stories of struggle, loss, and overcoming. Jrarbi is no exception. This film is about the paradox of life and death, where life wins — because it always goes on.

THAT UGLY GREEN PLANET
ANANT V KENI. ANIMATION/SATIRE. 2 mins U INDIA
Rico, a 10 year old metropolitan kid ,who is grown up amid all sorts of pollution,gets baffled when he finds himself surrounded by nature

The Great City
Zeki Yahya. 12 mins 15 Iraq.
Philosophical Drama / Experimental
The film explores the “Illusion Industry” and the ontology of truth in the digital era, utilising AI-assisted visual direction to achieve a cinematic aesthetic rooted in the traditions of Andrei Tarkovsky.

PANHA
SAKSHI MISHRA. DISPLA CEMENT & BELONGING / SOCIAL
FAMILY DRAMA. 23. Mins. U India
As eviction looms over their ancestral mango farm, a fractured family hides the truth
from their 7-year-old—until the boy secretly sets out on a journey to save their legacy.
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Broken Spear
Sun Chuanlin   Martial Arts Drama  94 min 15. China
In the twilight of the Tang Dynasty, a legendary spear master who once bathed in blood must take up his broken weapon again — when the ghosts of his past come hunting for him.

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