Floating Life
Clip 2: ‘Where is my home?’
2 min 51 sec
Taken from the feature Floating Life (1996)
Original title classification MA – this clip chosen to be PG
Availability of the complete title
Curator’s clip description
In Germany, eldest daughter Yen (Annette Shun Wah) has just told her husband Michael (Julian Pulvermacher) that she wants to move to Australia. In bed, she tells him that their daughter wants to live near her grandparents. Michael responds that he and his daughter are German. Yen cries as she asks him what she is.
Curator’s notes
The separation from parents is a powerful theme in this film – and it’s not just the living parents. Mr and Mrs Chan feel a powerful loss in being so far from where their ancestors are buried in Hong Kong.
Paul Byrnes, curator
