The Chanel Heritage Fund fully pivots to Asian Champion Films, making waves in Hong Kong and Thailand, as Academy Award winner Tilda Swinton and Palme d'Or winner Apichatpong Weerasethakul join forces for a landmark collaboration .
In Hong Kong, Chanel is leading a restoration program in partnership with the M+ Museum, under the direction of Silke Schmickl, Chief Curator of Chanel Moving Pictures, who will oversee the M+ Moving Pictures Center’s collections, commissioning and curatorial packages. The project will restore nine Hong Kong New Wave films, three of which will premiere at major film festivals around the world in 2025: Tong Shu-suan’s The Arch (1968), Peter Yung’s The System (1979) and Tam Yao-man’s The System “Love Is Bloody” (1981).
“I’ve always felt that there’s no such thing as a dated movie because what a movie is, it’s now, so you can watch a movie made in 1923 and you might think it’s right there, and you’d think of a movie made 100 years later. film, and then you’re right there,” Swinton said of film preservation. “And there's no such thing as new movies, because all the movies before you see it are just a bit of technology. So it's an actual distillation of electricity. So the idea of film preservation is built into this look.”
Veteran Hong Kong filmmaker Tong Shu Shuen emphasized the universal appeal of film: “Film is a window into trying to understand the human condition, so it's a very effective medium.”
The luxury housing scheme, led by international arts and heritage director Yana Peel, will even host an experimental film competition in Bangkok.
The masterful Thai filmmaker reflects on his cultural roots: “My Asian cinematic form and where we live has always been about ghosts – traces of history, traces of sunlight, unspoken questions. “Conversations with the Sun” (VR) is part of that lineage, but unique in its genre. It is a cinema without a display, and the solar energy itself becomes a contemplative object. It was important to bring this work to the Bangkok Experimental Film Competition. Yes, because this metropolis and this region understand impermanence. With one blow, our bodies disappear and our memories disappear.”
The program includes “M+ Rediscoveries,” a recurring series showcasing restored classics and experimental films by emerging Asian artists, and “Avant-Garde Now,” which brings together prominent video artists and experimental filmmaking from across Asia. people. The French trend giant can support the Asian Avant-garde Film Competition and build a complete film distribution library.
The collaboration also includes “An Encounter: The Last Thing You Notice, It Feels Like a Movie,” a lecture in conversation between Swinton and Weerasethakul, directed by Konridi (Kong Rithdee), mixing sound, light and film to explore memory and concepts.
“I’m delighted and honored to be able to highlight the region’s central significance to film and the moving image throughout its analogue history and digital future,” said Peele.
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