Para Site

Filmic deTours – A Screening Programme by Para Site & Eaton HK

Date
Jun 5, 2026
Time
7:00 pm – 10:00 pm

Venue

Kino Theatre, 1/F, Eaton HK, 380 Nathan Road, Jordan, Kowloon
Key visual: Still images from Meriem Bennani and Orian Barki, ‘2 Lizards: Episode 1’, 2020. Courtesy of the artist. François Ghebaly, Los Angeles/New York; Lodovico Corsini, Brussels; and Sadie Coles HQ, London; Cheng Ran, ‘CK2K2X’, 2017–2022; Hu Wei, ‘Proposal for Public Assembly/Encounter’, 2019; Haig Aivazian, ‘All of Your Stars are but Dust on My Shoes’, 2021. Courtesy of the artists. | 主視覺：Meriem Bennani及Orian Barki，《2 Lizards》第一集，2020年；影像靜幀由藝術家提供，鳴謝François Ghebaly（洛杉磯／紐約）、Lodovico Corsini（布魯塞爾），以及賽迪HQ畫廊（倫敦）；程然，《CK2K2X》，2017至2022年；胡偉，《為公共集會（邂逅）的提案》 ，2019年。Haig Aivazian，《你的星星不過是我鞋上的塵土》 ，2021年。影像靜幀由藝術家提供。

We invite you to a night of cinematic wandering! Kino Theatre (Eaton HK) is a private venue and it is compulsory for all attendees to complete prior registration via this form here.

An accompanying programme of Para Site’s 30th Year Anniversary exhibition, ‘Site-seeing’, Para Site and Eaton HK are pleased to present a screening programme that dialogues with the exhibition’s inquiries into spatial politics, construction of memory, and urban perception.

Screened in Hong Kong for the first time, film works by Haig Aivazian (b. 1980, Beirut), Meriem Bennani and Orian Barki (b. 1988, Rabat/b. 1985, Tel Aviv), Cheng Ran (b. 1981, Inner Mongolia), and Hu Wei (b. 1989, Dalian) will be on view. Opening with Bennani and Barki’s humorous short animation reflecting on friendship and community, before addressing the politics of urban space in Aivazian and Hu Wei’s works, the programme will end with Cheng Ran’s feature-length film CK2K2X, the product of a five-year artistic endeavour that offers a poetic take on present-day China and its different faces.

The screening will be followed by a short Q and A session with artist Cheng Ran, moderated by Yuanyu Li, Assistant Curator, Para Site. The session will be conducted in Mandarin with English translation.

 

Programme, in order of screening:

Meriem Bennani and Orian Barki
2 Lizards, Episode 1
2020
Video with color and sound
1 min 26 secs

HU Wei
Proposal for Public Assembly/Encounter
2019
B&W HD video with stereo sound
16 mins 1 sec

Haig Aivazian
All of Your Stars Are but Dust on My Shoes
2021
Video with color and sound
17 mins 34 secs

CHENG Ran
CK2K2X
2017-2022
Anamorphic widescreen, video with sound
65 mins
Commissioned by By Art Matters Museum

 

Remarks:

This screening programme is open only to attendees who have completed registration.

Para Site and Eaton HK reserve the right to postpone, cancel or modify the programme format at any time, and reserve the right to refuse admission. All decisions regarding admission and programme changes are at the organisers’ discretion and are final, including but not limited to operational, safety, capacity limits or force majeure reasons. Please do not record moving image work in this screening.

About the artists

Haig Aivazian

Haig Aivazian’s practice grapples with the metamorphic nature of three technologies: artificial light, computation, and law. He examines the ways in which the administration of light and darkness makes and unmakes persons and transforms material conditions of architecture and geography—how they are inhabited and moved through by humans, animals, objects, machines, and other strange creatures. Aivazian was the Artistic Director of Beirut Art Center (BAC) from 2020 to 2022, where he founded and edited thederivative.org.

 

Orian Barki

Based in New York, filmmaker Orian Barki specialises in shooting and editing her own raw, character-driven documentaries, with works featured on ESPN, PBS, Vogue, and Dazed, among other platforms. Her debut animated feature, Bouchra, co-directed with Meriem Bennani, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) before screening at the New York Film Festival (NYFF) and ICA London. The critically acclaimed film won the Grand Prix at the Festival International du Film Indépendant de Bordeaux and the Gold Q-Hugo at the Chicago International Film Festival, amongst other awards. Distributed by Film Movement, Bouchra will launch its US and French theatrical releases in the summer of 2026.

 

Meriem Bennani

Meriem Bennani’s practice grapples with the hybridity of contemporary cultural flows and global online media. Combining reality television, documentary, animation, and science fiction, her work utilises a ‘hyperactivity of genre’ to reflect the disjointed state of digital mediation. Bennani amplifies these narratives through immersive installation settings where moving images are mapped onto sculptural projection structures. Blending humour and critique, and frequently rooted in Moroccan life, her work navigates the intimacy of family while analysing larger systems of power across a networked world. She holds a BFA from the Cooper Union, New York, and an MFA from the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, Paris.

 

Cheng Ran 

A representative of China’s new generation of video and cross-media artists, Cheng Ran explores film, poetry, drama, novel, and installation. He participated in the artist residence programme at the Royal Academy of Visual Arts in the Netherlands (2013–2014), and he founded the art space, Martin Goya Business, in 2017.

Relying on a vibrant, experimental spirit, he excels at changing the sense of space, structure, and one’s conception towards objects through undefined use of materials. His switch between texts and visual language allows the audience to float between reality and imagination, presenting the poetics of nihilism. By re-patching aesthetic elements into a unique language, his works reflect the existential state of the Chinese young generation under globalisation. Cheng focuses less on identity and more on discovering new values from diverse cultures. His work reflects deep thoughts on universal themes including boundary, distinction, confrontation, and marginalisation in an all-round way.

 

Hu Wei 

Hu Wei lives and works in Beijing. He graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts and obtained an MA from the Dutch Art Institute in the Netherlands. He works in a variety of media, including filmmaking, installation, printed images, performance and drawing. Hu’s interest often begins from ‘silenced’ and local microhistories or archives, using the cinematic frame as a means to process and reflect on the ways in which (trans)personal narratives of social, cultural and historical belonging structure our experiences. His work unfolds through research, translation, and imagination, combining moving images and essayistic aesthetics to explore the porous and speculative connections between art and reality, as well as the precarious relationship between affect and value judgments in different political and economic contexts.