Blessed Are Those Who Grieve
A collective experimental short / essay film—a fragment of a surreal inner landscape. Two performers torment themselves with immense sorrow in sand and slime, while a narrator from Hong Kong, speaking in a dreamlike monologue, attempts to rename a trauma that has been forced into forgetting. Through somatic exercises, the three creators explore the grief buried within their bodies. Gestures of grieving are captured through 3D scanning and transformed into digital copies so the two bodies become one, questioning how we can share our grief. In a third place beyond memory and reality, grief is born as a creature. Shaped by the embodied research of the creators, it transcends the digital/material realm, flesh, and language—transforming into a shared and liberated presence.
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3 people
Kayu Yeung Director · Zora Arose Ritz Director Evgenia Chetvertkova Director
United States release August 23, 2025
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Languages
Original language
Cantonese
Spoken on screen
Cantonese
Release dates
United States · August 23, 2025
Premiere · North America Premiere - Hong Kong On Screen Film Festival
Hong Kong SAR China
November 16, 2025 · Premiere · Asia Premiere - Jumping Frames Hong Kong International Movement-image Festival 2025
Switzerland
October 16, 2025 · Premiere · European Premiere - Lusanne Underground Film & Music Festival
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