They Say the Moon Is Fuller Here

Director: Clara Law

1985 / 78min / DCP

Law’s shot-on-16mm graduate thesis film from London’s National Film and Television School would become the first entry in her transnational “emigration series,” with the director herself starring as Ling, a Hong Kong fine arts student in the UK working on a dance interpretation of the classic Chinese folk tale of the Butterfly Lovers, struggling to explain the culturally specific intricacies of her project to her Western peers while seeking solace in the company of an engineering student from Beijing who, in the aftermath of the Cultural Revolution, finds himself facing a crisis of faith in the CCP.

Scanned from the 16mm print of Clara Law's thesis film, with the support of the Hong Kong Film Critics Society.

Distributor: Revenante Films

Part of In Limbo: The Films of Clara Law