Presented by: Firehall Arts Centre Residency
Company: Hong Kong Exile

Performers: Michelle Lui, Milton Lim, Alex Tam
Choreographer: Natalie Tin Yin Gan
Sound Composition and Media Design: Remy Siu
Dramaturge/Mentor: Lee Su-Feh (battery opera performance)
Additional Credits: Zoe Lam

This multimedia dance theatre piece explores the socio-political realities of the Cantonese diaspora, sourcing themes of loss, nostalgia and desire that reoccur within seminal works of acclaimed Hong Kong filmmaker Wong Kar Wai. Room 2048 is the latest project from the Vancouver-based interdisciplinary supergroup Hong Kong Exile, known for their loud and striking digital aesthetic, tongue-in-cheek humour, and engagement with cultural politics.

Room 2048 — a dream machine. In digital light and smoke, we pursue a history that is not ours. A living past, a dying future, and a stillborn present. We will lie. We will cheat. We will spend thousands of years here.