Hong Kong Arthouse Film award
Best experimental film 2017
TAFF honorary mention
Grace Chapters is a schizoanalytic cruising through Grace Kelly's life on and off-screen, and in various media. Situated in a fictional scene of “A Country Girl” (1954) Grace Kelly grapples with the absurdity of waiting in the front hall of a cinema. It is unknown to the viewer if she knows, why she is waiting, and for what, but the viewer witnesses a hypnotic slow jam likening of a trial, albeit a date, every-day maintenance of a cinema, a musical casting. She engages with several homogenously-dressed men, one of whom appears to be her husband. Grace Chapters references and inspects gender politics of the grand era of cinema, in particular the rethorics of interpersonalgendered negotiation and performative gaslighting.