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Key Words
Death, Death Houses, Desire, Dream, Homage, Maternal Instinct, Memory, Motherhood, Motherly Love, Outdoor Performance, Yearning for Mother,About
A woman desires to be a mother. Another desires for a mother. And one who is a mother. Stories of a woman’s hidden desires and memories are told through a series of five intimate episodes. Share in her longing as she crosses between time and space, between dreams and reality. Set against ‘Mother’s Grief’, a black-and-white Hong Kong film made in 1961, Ma: Moment is presented in an architectural pavilion of reimagined old shophouses and cinema screens, built on the site of Chinatown’s infamous Death Houses.
Once a year, Precious Pig prepares for her death. At twenty, she got malaria and spent two months in a coma, hardly breathing. She woke to the sound of her own coffin being nailed shut. Today is the fortieth anniversary of that day, but she takes nothing for granted. Thirty-nine times she has celebrated her Deathday/Unbirthday/Anti-birthday, and each time, naturally, she treats it as her last. She gets up early to say goodbye to the sunrise. It’s the first of the day’s many farewells…
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