Joy ride

Hong Kong's offerings at Udine did not stop at narrative fictions. Interviewed about her documentary Finding Bliss: Fire and Ice - The Director's Cut (2022), actress and singer Josie Ho Chiu-yi says the experience was "really transformative" for the group and herself.

This was a novel documentary project led by Ho, and directed by Kim Chan Chi-yung and Dee Lam Ming-hon. Ho and the documentary team decided to take a group of young musicians from Hong Kong to Iceland. The documentary explores the transformative potential of "play", and follows Hong Kong actor and comedian - and the project's creative director - Jim Chim Sui-man's masterful practice as he leads the group through theatrical exercises designed to undo some of the accumulated stresses of city life.

Ho noted the difference in her own band, Josie Ho & the Uni Boys, in their very first show after returning from Iceland. During the show in Taiwan, the previously low-key musicians performed "like they had some spark or some electric, some crazy energy", she adds.