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, born in Hong Kong, began her art career while studying radiography at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, creating her first experimental super-8 film, The Glove. She co-founded Videotage in 1986 and received the Asia Cultural Council Fellowship in 1992, creating Song of the Goddess in the U.S. Her international career launched at the 1995 Gwangju Biennale, followed by exhibitions at “City on the Move”, Asia Pacific Triennial, Shanghai Biennale and Taipei Biennale. Since 1996, she has been a director at the Microwave International Media Art Festival. At the 2001 Venice Biennale, she presented Recycling Cinema. Recent exhibitions include Awakening: Art in Society in Asia 1960s–1990s (2019) at the National Gallery Singapore, What About Home Affairs (2019) at Para-site and Shape of Light at M+ Facade (2022). Her works are held in collections of the Hong Kong Museum of Art, M+, and Griffith University. The Asia Art Archive launched her archive in 2023.