Spacked Out (無人駕駛) (2K Restoration) + Introduction (HKFFUK)
<b>This screening will have an introduction, and is programmed and presented in partnership with Queer East.</b>
On the 25th anniversary of its release, we celebrate <i>Spacked Out</i> – a rarely-seen landmark of Hong Kong independent cinema and a vivid time capsule of early 2000s fashion and culture. Channelling the punkish energy of 1990s productions like <i>Made in Hong Kong</i> (Fruit Chan, 1997) and <i>Kids</i> (Larry Clark, 1995), <i>Spacked Out</i> follows four teenage girls wandering around Tuen Mun, spending their days hustling for cash, taking drugs, and sleeping around: preferring the company of delinquents and triads over their parents, teachers, and unsupportive institutions. After 13-year-old Cookie has a pregnancy scare, the group come together to help secure an abortion.
Given a rare adults-only age rating for its honest representation of youth rebellion, <i>Spacked Out</i> remains a riotous piece of social realism, a testament to found family, and a vital documentation of life for Hong Kong’s angry, queer, and disillusioned teenagers in the uncertain years after the 1997 handover to China. Produced by Johnnie To.DramaPT1H35MN/C 18