Green Thoughts (2020) dir. William Hong-xiao Wei

With GREEN THOUGHTS, young director William Hong-xiao Wei takes us on a journey under the auspices of Emily Dickinson’s world. Early in the film, we catch a glimpse of a volume of poetry, by way of a clue, and then we hear the mysterious verses of the poet: “It was not Death, for I stood up, And all the Dead, lie down It was not Night, for all the Bells Put out their Tongues, for Noon.” The dying love between two young women – one writes, the other takes photographs – are an opportunity to immerse ourselves in image, time and sensations. When the writer asks – as if to us as well – “where are we?”, the young photographer answers: “somewhere, in the world”, and then adds: “somewhere, in the past”.