The video is based on a series of interviews on the streets of Camden in North London, where the artist asks passersby “what is your best-before date?” The respondents’ dates were chosen due to incidents of victory, hope, disappointment, and even death. The video was made both in memory of 1997 and to pay a farewell tribute to the Oil Street Artist Village and the art groups’ resettlement to the Cheung Sha Wan Abattoir.

為了紀念油畫藝術村愈搬愈遠，愈遷愈接近畜牲；再加上九七年拍攝的倫敦街頭訪問，望天打卦事過境遷血肉模糊的過氣話題。

Ellen Pau was born in Hong Kong and enrolled as a student of radiography at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 1982. She is a radiographer by profession, but being a professional radiologist didnot fulfil her creative obsessions with video art and media art. In 1984 Pau made her first film Glove, asuper-8mm artwork, which was screened internationally. She has since worked as an MTV director, cinematographer, video artist, curator, educator and arts administrator. Pau began her international career in 1995 at the Kwangiu Biennale in Korea curated by Kim Hon-Yee and Nam-June Paik. She is the co-founder and artistic director for the media art organization Videotage and has served as a member and curator of the organizing committee for the Microwave International Media Art Festival, Hong Kong since 1996. Pau teaches part-time at The University of Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts in addition to be a full-time medical image technologist. Pau is an advisor to the HK Museum of Art, the HK Arts Development Council and a number of festivals. She has exhibited in exhibitions including One World Exposition by Videotage and the Input/Output Gallery Relocation exhibition.