A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Rita Hui Nga-Shu
許雅舒
Birthplace:
Hong Kong
Rita Hui studied at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (HKAPA)’s Department of Film and Television. Her video work has won numerous awards at the IFVA Hong Kong Independent Short Film & Video Awards, and includes such shorts as Ah Ming (1996), She Makes Me Wanna to Die (1997), Invisible City (Wall) (1998), and Alice in the Wonderland (1999). She has also worked on various video art installation projects throughout the 2000s. These include Chionanthus Retusus (2001), IdoLetHerMyHeadHave (2004), Red Riding Hood (2005), and RED (2006). Hui made her feature film debut at the end of the decade with Dead Slowly (2009), a gory and sexually explicit metaphysical thriller involving adultery and murder that starred Joman Chiang and screened at the Pusan International Film Festival. Her feature film Keening Woman (2013) is about a young woman who finds her consciousness undergoing some sort of spiritual journey, after she begins to lose her sense of self at a farewell ceremony for a recently departed family friend. The film screened at the 2013 Hong Kong Independent Film Festival. Aside from her filmmaking endeavors, Hui also teaches at the City University Hong Kong’s School of Creative Media.
Director:
1996 Ah Ming
1997 Subway
1998 She Makes Me Wanna Die
2009 Dead Slowly
2013 Keening Woman
2016 Pseudo Secular
2021 Decameron
2023 Invisible City
Editor:
1996 Ah Ming
1997 Subway
1998 She Makes Me Wanna Die
2009 Dead Slowly
2013 Keening Woman
2016 Pseudo Secular
2021 Decameron
2023 Invisible City
Producer:
1996 Ah Ming
1997 Subway
1998 She Makes Me Wanna Die
2009 Dead Slowly
2011 Big Blue Lake
2013 Keening Woman
2016 Pseudo Secular
2021 Decameron
2023 Invisible City
Writer:
1996 Ah Ming
1997 Subway
1998 She Makes Me Wanna Die
2009 Dead Slowly
2011 Big Blue Lake
2013 Keening Woman
2016 Pseudo Secular
2021 Decameron
2023 Invisible City
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