A deep wide crack, in splits and lines. It spreads.

The city hides in plain sight, hypnotising people with the spectacle. This story unfolds in parts, to roam in the Young Woman’s distress while immersing in the forest’s uneasiness in anticipation of a city awakening.

Although this film is captured in Hong Kong, the general urban landscape more or less leads to the same condition: a high-strung rhythmic operation that eventually is reduced to quiet chaos. Trapped in the city lights, another place for existence emerges: the forest. I began to think of the city as a creature, sound asleep. Every breath it takes sucks the life out of nature, and exhales into the city. There is something masochistic about this, that as city people we can’t fathom a world without progression, without constant movement.

A deep wide crack, in splits and lines. It rumbles.

這座城市埋藏在眼皮底下，用奇觀迷惑著人們。這個故事分幾個部分展開，遊走於女子的愁苦，同時沉浸在森林的不安中，等待著城市的覺醒。

香港的城市景觀展現了一個狀態：一種最終化為暗湧/寂靜的混沌的節奏。而困在這光景中，另一個有生命的地方出現：森林。我把這座城市幻想成一隻正在沉睡的生物，它從大自然中吸取生命，呼出城市。這是城市人自虐，我們無法想像一個沒有進步、沒有持續運行的世界。

一條又深又寬的裂縫，有線條和分岔，隆隆地在作響。

Nicole IP is a Hong Kong based filmmaker with an interest in engaging the moving image and text. Her work is concerned with the city, nature and finding fiction within the non-fiction. A recent graduate of the BA School of Creative Media programme at City University of Hong Kong, her experimental film CREVASSE (2023) received the Louis Koo Creative Media Award.