Home and a Distant Archive
2021, English. Directed by Dorothy Cheung.
A poetic, experimental portrait of four Hong Kong women in London working to digitise records of the handover agreement between the United Kingdom and China. Impressionistic and precise, personal and expansive, Cheung's elegant, eloquent work decodes history and how politics are enacted.
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- 0h 24m
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- Language
- English
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- Released
- 1 May 2021
- Original title
- 見光
- Country
- Hong Kong, Netherlands
- Written by
- Dorothy Cheung
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Home and a Distant Archive runs 24 minutes (0h 24m).
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Home and a Distant Archive isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 1 May 2021. (Checked 11 November 2026.)
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Who directed Home and a Distant Archive?
Home and a Distant Archive (2021) was directed by Dorothy Cheung.