{"id":2032597,"date":"2026-07-02T04:35:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T01:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2032597"},"modified":"2026-07-02T04:35:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T01:35:35","slug":"m-chanel-senior-curator-silke-schmickl-on-building-a-new-era-for-asian-avant-garde-cinema","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2032597","title":{"rendered":"M+ CHANEL Senior Curator Silke Schmickl on Building a New Era for Asian Avant-Garde Cinema"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/image-cdn.hypb.st\/https%3A%2F%2Fhypebeast.com%2Fimage%2F2026%2F06%2F04%2Fchanel-curator-silke-schmickl-on-asian-cinema-tw.jpg?w=1080&amp;cbr=1&amp;q=90&amp;fit=max&#8221;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"col-post-body col\">\n<div class=\"row post-body\">\n<aside class=\"post-body-sidebar\">\n<div class=\"post-body-sidebar-upper\">\n<div class=\"post-body-sidebar-category d-none d-lg-block\">\n<p>    Art\n                                                                                                    <\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"post-body-sidebar-published d-none d-lg-block\"><time>Jul 2, 2026<\/time><\/div>\n<ul class=\"post-body-sidebar-hype-comments-container list-unstyled d-none d-lg-block\">\n<li><span class=\"hype-count grey\"><br \/>\n             407<br \/>\n    <\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"floating-tooltip\" role=\"tooltip\"><span>Views<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"disqus-comment-count\"><span>0<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"d-none d-sm-inline text\">Comments<\/span><\/span>\n<div class=\"floating-tooltip\" role=\"tooltip\"><span>Comments<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"text\">Save<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"post-body-sidebar-author d-none d-lg-block\">\n<hr class=\"sidebar-divider share-divider\">\n<h6>Text By<\/h6>\n<p><span class=\"author-name\">Keith Estiler<\/span><\/div>\n<hr class=\"sidebar-divider d-none d-lg-block\">\n<div class=\"post-body-sidebar-share d-none d-lg-block\">\n<h6>Share this article<\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<hr class=\"sidebar-divider d-none d-lg-block\">\n<div class=\"brand-sidebar-widget d-none d-lg-block\">\n<h6>In This Article<\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<article class=\"post-body-article\">\n<div class=\"post-video-container small inner-media \">\n<div class=\"embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9\">\n<div class=\"vast-media embed-responsive-item\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"M+ CHANEL Senior Curator Silke Schmickl on Building a New Era for Asian Avant-Garde Cinema video\">\n<div class=\"video-ad-main-container\">\n                    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tuSv4u5FZaA\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>?si=xxmElLVXZ2oG-sAY\n                    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"post-body-top-bar\" class=\"post-body-top-bar d-block d-lg-none\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"post-body-top-bar-share-meta-container\">\n<div class=\"post-body-top-bar-meta\"><span class=\"post-body-top-bar-category\"><\/p>\n<p>    Art<br \/>\n                                                    <\/span><span class=\"post-body-top-bar-published\"><time>Jul 2, 2026<\/time><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-body-top-bar-hype-comments-container \"><span class=\"hype-count grey\"><br \/>\n             407<br \/>\n    <\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"floating-tooltip\" role=\"tooltip\"><span>Views<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"disqus-comment-count\"><span>0<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"d-none d-none text\">Comments<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"floating-tooltip\" role=\"tooltip\"><span>Comments<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"text\">Save<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-body-content\">\n<p>The third edition of the M+ Asian Avant-Garde Film Festival (AAGFF), supported by CHANEL, concluded on May 31st after three days of film, music and performance exploring space as both an artistic principle and a geopolitical subject. Highlights included the world premiere of \u2018Lamya Gargash \u00d7 Vivian Wang: Tracking Nomadism (Live)\u2019, a newly commissioned live cinema collaboration supported by Chanel, alongside Rirkrit Tiravanija\u2019s interactive ping-pong installation and screenings of landmark works by Nam June Paik and Xu Bing.<\/p>\n<p>Now in its third year, AAGFF has cemented itself as one of Asia\u2019s most vital platforms for experimental film and moving image art, drawing independent filmmakers, artists and creative communities across the region under one roof. This edition\u2019s theme built on last year\u2019s exploration of time, turning its attention to space as a subject that cuts across composition and perspective in artmaking, the evolution of lens-based technologies and the geopolitical realities reshaping the world today. Below, CHANEL Senior Curator and Head of Moving Image at M+ in Hong Kong, Silke Schmickl, reflects on the programming.<\/p>\n<p><q>\u201cSpace is a critical principle of artmaking in all media and particularly interesting in lens-based media where artists have challenged the frame through expanded cinema and now \u2018frameless\u2019 immersion.\u201d<\/q><\/p>\n<p><strong>The festival title, \u201cSpace Enter Shift,\u201d is pretty open. How did you land on it?<\/strong><br \/>\nThe title is first and foremost an invitation for audiences to enter the festival space and to be shifted by what they experience. It acknowledges the importance of technology in the creation and reception of time-based art forms and is a playful nod to three essential keyboard keys: \u2018space\u2019, which inserts a blank character; \u2018enter\u2019, which confirms input or begins a new line; and \u2018shift\u2019, which modifies other keys. Space is a critical principle of artmaking in all media and particularly interesting in lens-based media where artists have challenged the frame within the image, through expanded cinema and now \u201cframeless\u201d immersion. The theme is also a subject matter to reflect on the global geopolitical shifts we are witnessing at the moment.\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Larissa Sansour\u2019s film tells of a Palestinian pirate reclaiming colonial artefacts. What made you want to bring that work to M+?<\/strong><br \/>\nSansour\u2019s practice investigates the political, social, economic and cultural dimensions of space grounded in her personal experience of exile. Her latest film \u2018A Sunken Tale of Losses Delayed\u2019 provided an excellent opportunity to premiere her work in Asia. The repatriation of looted objects is an important topic in the context of Asia\u2019s post-colonial institutional history, and the motif of a ship interested us as a heterotopia in the sense of Foucault. The position of the main character, a pirate, introduces a radical shift in perspective. This edition has also seen several presentations of female artists from West Asia including Sansour, Samia Halaby, Basma Al-Sharif and Lamya Gargash.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"shortcode-slider before-booted full-screen-enabled light\" data-width=\"100%\" data-animate=\"slide\" data-slideshow data-loop data-slideshowspeed=\"7000\" data-group-cells=\"1\">\n<div class=\"flickity-carousel\">\n<div class=\"flickity-carousel-cell\" data-gallery-index=\"1\"><span class=\"gallery-image-index\"><span class=\"image-index\">1 of 9<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/image-cdn.hypb.st\/https%3A%2F%2Fhypebeast.com%2Fimage%2F2026%2F06%2F25%2F2R8A8960-scaled.jpg\" alt><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"flickity-carousel-cell\" data-gallery-index=\"2\"><span class=\"gallery-image-index\"><span class=\"image-index\">2 of 9<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/image-cdn.hypb.st\/https%3A%2F%2Fhypebeast.com%2Fimage%2F2026%2F06%2F04%2Fchanel-curator-silke-schmickl-on-asian-cinema-1.jpg\" alt><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"flickity-carousel-cell\" data-gallery-index=\"3\"><span class=\"gallery-image-index\"><span class=\"image-index\">3 of 9<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/image-cdn.hypb.st\/https%3A%2F%2Fhypebeast.com%2Fimage%2F2026%2F06%2F04%2Fchanel-curator-silke-schmickl-on-asian-cinema-2.jpg\" alt><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"flickity-carousel-cell\" data-gallery-index=\"4\"><span class=\"gallery-image-index\"><span class=\"image-index\">4 of 9<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/image-cdn.hypb.st\/https%3A%2F%2Fhypebeast.com%2Fimage%2F2026%2F06%2F04%2Fchanel-curator-silke-schmickl-on-asian-cinema-3.jpg\" alt><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"flickity-carousel-cell\" data-gallery-index=\"5\"><span class=\"gallery-image-index\"><span class=\"image-index\">5 of 9<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/image-cdn.hypb.st\/https%3A%2F%2Fhypebeast.com%2Fimage%2F2026%2F06%2F04%2Fchanel-curator-silke-schmickl-on-asian-cinema-4.jpg\" alt><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"flickity-carousel-cell\" data-gallery-index=\"6\"><span class=\"gallery-image-index\"><span class=\"image-index\">6 of 9<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/image-cdn.hypb.st\/https%3A%2F%2Fhypebeast.com%2Fimage%2F2026%2F06%2F04%2Fchanel-curator-silke-schmickl-on-asian-cinema-5.jpg\" alt><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"flickity-carousel-cell\" data-gallery-index=\"7\"><span class=\"gallery-image-index\"><span class=\"image-index\">7 of 9<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/image-cdn.hypb.st\/https%3A%2F%2Fhypebeast.com%2Fimage%2F2026%2F06%2F04%2Fchanel-curator-silke-schmickl-on-asian-cinema-6.jpg\" alt><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"flickity-carousel-cell\" data-gallery-index=\"8\"><span class=\"gallery-image-index\"><span class=\"image-index\">8 of 9<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/image-cdn.hypb.st\/https%3A%2F%2Fhypebeast.com%2Fimage%2F2026%2F06%2F04%2Fchanel-curator-silke-schmickl-on-asian-cinema-7.jpg\" alt><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"flickity-carousel-cell\" data-gallery-index=\"9\"><span class=\"gallery-image-index\"><span class=\"image-index\">9 of 9<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/image-cdn.hypb.st\/https%3A%2F%2Fhypebeast.com%2Fimage%2F2026%2F06%2F04%2Fchanel-curator-silke-schmickl-on-asian-cinema-8.jpg\" alt><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Xu Bing built <em>Dragonfly Eyes<\/em> entirely from surveillance footage. Where do you see the most interesting boundary-pushing in moving image right now?<\/strong><br \/>\n\u2018Dragonfly Eyes\u2019 is a prime example of how conceptual artists might no longer create their own images but find new ways of recontextualising and critically analysing the huge amounts of visual data that is produced every day, such as surveillance camera footage in Xu Bing\u2019s case. Such self-reflexive approaches that shed new light on the excessive production of images and their potential instrumentalisation are some of the most boundary-pushing responses by contemporary artists today.\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Paik\u2019s <em>Wrap Around the World<\/em> was a live global broadcast in 1988. What does it feel like to screen that in 2026?<\/strong><br \/>\nIt was powerful to revisit his techno-optimism in a pre-globalised world. The utopian tone, freespirited and eccentric performances of some of the late 20th century\u2019s most remarkable makers showed us what we have lost when the internet became a market-driven utility, but also what is always possible when we bring people together to converse and co-create.\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>CHANEL has been backing this festival for three years. How do you manage that relationship when the programming is often deliberately uncommercial?<\/strong><br \/>\nThe working relationship between M+ and CHANEL has always been very cordial, open and inspiring. M+ has full autonomy over the curatorial content while CHANEL helps us tell the stories with greater impact and bring artists, filmmakers, cultural practitioners and audiences together \u2014 which is critical for the festival\u2019s success in establishing itself as an essential platform for artists\u2019 moving images.<\/p>\n<div class=\"show-article\">\n<p>                                                            Read Full Article<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<footer>\n<div class=\"related-stories-main-wrapper\">\n<h3>Related Stories<\/h3>\n<div class=\"stories-container\" data-layer-list-name=\"related_stories\" data-layer-list-offset=\"0\" data-layer-list-child-selector=\".story-item\">\n<div class=\"story-item\" data-layer-item-id=\"6749950\" data-layer-item-blog-id=\"1\" data-layer-item-type=\"post\"><span>&gt;<\/span>Fairy Tale or Everyday Adventure? 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Don\u2019t miss out on the latest news by signing up for our newsletters.<\/h3>\n<div class=\"terms\">By subscribing, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-body-author d-block d-lg-none\">\n<hr class=\"sidebar-divider share-divider\">\n<h6>Text By<\/h6>\n<p><span class=\"author-name\">Keith Estiler<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"post-body-share d-block d-lg-none\">\n<hr class=\"sidebar-divider\">\n<h6>Share this article<\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"brand-post-body-widget\">\n<hr class=\"sidebar-divider d-block d-lg-none\">\n<h6>In This Article<\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-body-content-tags\">\n<div class=\"body collapsed\">\n<p>    Chanelfilmm+\n                                                            <\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<section class=\"post__body__author_info\">\n<div class=\"post__body__author_info__inner\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/image-cdn.hypb.st\/https%3A%2F%2Fhypebeast.com%2Fimage%2F2026%2F06%2F05%2Fkeith-300.jpg?w=100&amp;cbr=1&amp;q=90&amp;fit=max\" alt=\"Keith Estiler\" class=\"post__body__author_info__avatar\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"post__body__author_info__body\">\n<p>                    Keith Estiler<\/p>\n<p>                                    <span class=\"post__body__author_info__title\">Managing Editor, Hypeart<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post__body__author_info__bio_wrapper\">\n<p class=\"post__body__author_info__bio\">Keith Estiler is a New York-born curator, writer, and the Managing Editor of Hypeart, the contemporary art arm of Hypebeast. Based in NYC, Keith heads up editorial strategy at the intersection of contemporary art and culture, capturing the icons and outliers of both the local and international scenes. He has curated exhibitions worldwide, dedicated to championing the emerging voices and subcultures currently redefining contemporary visual culture.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/footer>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"post-footer\" class=\"post-footer row\">\n<div class=\"col-shopping-break\">\n<hr>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-comments\">\n<div id=\"comments\" class=\"post-comments none \">\n<header>\n<div class=\"heading\"><span class=\"comment-count\">0<\/span><span>Comments<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"comment-dropdown-tooltip\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<li><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row post-body\">\n<aside class=\"post-body-sidebar\">\n<div class=\"post-body-sidebar-upper\">\n<div class=\"post-body-sidebar-category d-none d-lg-block\">\n<p>    Art\n                                                                                                    <\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"post-body-sidebar-published d-none d-lg-block\"><time>Jul 2, 2026<\/time><\/div>\n<ul class=\"post-body-sidebar-hype-comments-container list-unstyled d-none d-lg-block\">\n<li><span class=\"hype-count grey\"><br \/>\n             407<br \/>\n    <\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"floating-tooltip\" role=\"tooltip\"><span>Views<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"disqus-comment-count\"><span>0<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"d-none d-sm-inline text\">Comments<\/span><\/span>\n<div class=\"floating-tooltip\" role=\"tooltip\"><span>Comments<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"text\">Save<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"post-body-sidebar-author d-none d-lg-block\">\n<hr class=\"sidebar-divider share-divider\">\n<h6>Text By<\/h6>\n<p><span class=\"author-name\">Keith Estiler<\/span><\/div>\n<hr class=\"sidebar-divider d-none d-lg-block\">\n<div class=\"post-body-sidebar-share d-none d-lg-block\">\n<h6>Share this article<\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<hr class=\"sidebar-divider d-none d-lg-block\">\n<div class=\"brand-sidebar-widget d-none d-lg-block\">\n<h6>In This Article<\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<article class=\"post-body-article\">\n<div class=\"post-video-container small inner-media \">\n<div class=\"embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9\">\n<div class=\"vast-media embed-responsive-item\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"M+ CHANEL Senior Curator Silke Schmickl on Building a New Era for Asian Avant-Garde Cinema video\">\n<div class=\"video-ad-main-container\">\n                    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tuSv4u5FZaA\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>?si=xxmElLVXZ2oG-sAY\n                    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"post-body-top-bar\" class=\"post-body-top-bar d-block d-lg-none\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"post-body-top-bar-share-meta-container\">\n<div class=\"post-body-top-bar-meta\"><span class=\"post-body-top-bar-category\"><\/p>\n<p>    Art<br \/>\n                                                    <\/span><span class=\"post-body-top-bar-published\"><time>Jul 2, 2026<\/time><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-body-top-bar-hype-comments-container \"><span class=\"hype-count grey\"><br \/>\n             407<br \/>\n    <\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"floating-tooltip\" role=\"tooltip\"><span>Views<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"disqus-comment-count\"><span>0<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"d-none d-none text\">Comments<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"floating-tooltip\" role=\"tooltip\"><span>Comments<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"text\">Save<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-body-content\">\n<p>The third edition of the M+ Asian Avant-Garde Film Festival (AAGFF), supported by CHANEL, concluded on May 31st after three days of film, music and performance exploring space as both an artistic principle and a geopolitical subject. Highlights included the world premiere of \u2018Lamya Gargash \u00d7 Vivian Wang: Tracking Nomadism (Live)\u2019, a newly commissioned live cinema collaboration supported by Chanel, alongside Rirkrit Tiravanija\u2019s interactive ping-pong installation and screenings of landmark works by Nam June Paik and Xu Bing.<\/p>\n<p>Now in its third year, AAGFF has cemented itself as one of Asia\u2019s most vital platforms for experimental film and moving image art, drawing independent filmmakers, artists and creative communities across the region under one roof. This edition\u2019s theme built on last year\u2019s exploration of time, turning its attention to space as a subject that cuts across composition and perspective in artmaking, the evolution of lens-based technologies and the geopolitical realities reshaping the world today. Below, CHANEL Senior Curator and Head of Moving Image at M+ in Hong Kong, Silke Schmickl, reflects on the programming.<\/p>\n<p><q>\u201cSpace is a critical principle of artmaking in all media and particularly interesting in lens-based media where artists have challenged the frame through expanded cinema and now \u2018frameless\u2019 immersion.\u201d<\/q><\/p>\n<p><strong>The festival title, \u201cSpace Enter Shift,\u201d is pretty open. How did you land on it?<\/strong><br \/>\nThe title is first and foremost an invitation for audiences to enter the festival space and to be shifted by what they experience. It acknowledges the importance of technology in the creation and reception of time-based art forms and is a playful nod to three essential keyboard keys: \u2018space\u2019, which inserts a blank character; \u2018enter\u2019, which confirms input or begins a new line; and \u2018shift\u2019, which modifies other keys. Space is a critical principle of artmaking in all media and particularly interesting in lens-based media where artists have challenged the frame within the image, through expanded cinema and now \u201cframeless\u201d immersion. The theme is also a subject matter to reflect on the global geopolitical shifts we are witnessing at the moment.\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Larissa Sansour\u2019s film tells of a Palestinian pirate reclaiming colonial artefacts. What made you want to bring that work to M+?<\/strong><br \/>\nSansour\u2019s practice investigates the political, social, economic and cultural dimensions of space grounded in her personal experience of exile. Her latest film \u2018A Sunken Tale of Losses Delayed\u2019 provided an excellent opportunity to premiere her work in Asia. The repatriation of looted objects is an important topic in the context of Asia\u2019s post-colonial institutional history, and the motif of a ship interested us as a heterotopia in the sense of Foucault. The position of the main character, a pirate, introduces a radical shift in perspective. This edition has also seen several presentations of female artists from West Asia including Sansour, Samia Halaby, Basma Al-Sharif and Lamya Gargash.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"shortcode-slider before-booted full-screen-enabled light\" data-width=\"100%\" data-animate=\"slide\" data-slideshow data-loop data-slideshowspeed=\"7000\" data-group-cells=\"1\">\n<div class=\"flickity-carousel\">\n<div class=\"flickity-carousel-cell\" data-gallery-index=\"1\"><span class=\"gallery-image-index\"><span class=\"image-index\">1 of 9<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/image-cdn.hypb.st\/https%3A%2F%2Fhypebeast.com%2Fimage%2F2026%2F06%2F25%2F2R8A8960-scaled.jpg\" alt><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"flickity-carousel-cell\" data-gallery-index=\"2\"><span class=\"gallery-image-index\"><span class=\"image-index\">2 of 9<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/image-cdn.hypb.st\/https%3A%2F%2Fhypebeast.com%2Fimage%2F2026%2F06%2F04%2Fchanel-curator-silke-schmickl-on-asian-cinema-1.jpg\" alt><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"flickity-carousel-cell\" data-gallery-index=\"3\"><span class=\"gallery-image-index\"><span class=\"image-index\">3 of 9<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/image-cdn.hypb.st\/https%3A%2F%2Fhypebeast.com%2Fimage%2F2026%2F06%2F04%2Fchanel-curator-silke-schmickl-on-asian-cinema-2.jpg\" alt><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"flickity-carousel-cell\" data-gallery-index=\"4\"><span class=\"gallery-image-index\"><span class=\"image-index\">4 of 9<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/image-cdn.hypb.st\/https%3A%2F%2Fhypebeast.com%2Fimage%2F2026%2F06%2F04%2Fchanel-curator-silke-schmickl-on-asian-cinema-3.jpg\" alt><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"flickity-carousel-cell\" data-gallery-index=\"5\"><span class=\"gallery-image-index\"><span class=\"image-index\">5 of 9<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/image-cdn.hypb.st\/https%3A%2F%2Fhypebeast.com%2Fimage%2F2026%2F06%2F04%2Fchanel-curator-silke-schmickl-on-asian-cinema-4.jpg\" alt><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"flickity-carousel-cell\" data-gallery-index=\"6\"><span class=\"gallery-image-index\"><span class=\"image-index\">6 of 9<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/image-cdn.hypb.st\/https%3A%2F%2Fhypebeast.com%2Fimage%2F2026%2F06%2F04%2Fchanel-curator-silke-schmickl-on-asian-cinema-5.jpg\" alt><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"flickity-carousel-cell\" data-gallery-index=\"7\"><span class=\"gallery-image-index\"><span class=\"image-index\">7 of 9<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/image-cdn.hypb.st\/https%3A%2F%2Fhypebeast.com%2Fimage%2F2026%2F06%2F04%2Fchanel-curator-silke-schmickl-on-asian-cinema-6.jpg\" alt><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"flickity-carousel-cell\" data-gallery-index=\"8\"><span class=\"gallery-image-index\"><span class=\"image-index\">8 of 9<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/image-cdn.hypb.st\/https%3A%2F%2Fhypebeast.com%2Fimage%2F2026%2F06%2F04%2Fchanel-curator-silke-schmickl-on-asian-cinema-7.jpg\" alt><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"flickity-carousel-cell\" data-gallery-index=\"9\"><span class=\"gallery-image-index\"><span class=\"image-index\">9 of 9<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/image-cdn.hypb.st\/https%3A%2F%2Fhypebeast.com%2Fimage%2F2026%2F06%2F04%2Fchanel-curator-silke-schmickl-on-asian-cinema-8.jpg\" alt><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Xu Bing built <em>Dragonfly Eyes<\/em> entirely from surveillance footage. Where do you see the most interesting boundary-pushing in moving image right now?<\/strong><br \/>\n\u2018Dragonfly Eyes\u2019 is a prime example of how conceptual artists might no longer create their own images but find new ways of recontextualising and critically analysing the huge amounts of visual data that is produced every day, such as surveillance camera footage in Xu Bing\u2019s case. Such self-reflexive approaches that shed new light on the excessive production of images and their potential instrumentalisation are some of the most boundary-pushing responses by contemporary artists today.\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Paik\u2019s <em>Wrap Around the World<\/em> was a live global broadcast in 1988. What does it feel like to screen that in 2026?<\/strong><br \/>\nIt was powerful to revisit his techno-optimism in a pre-globalised world. The utopian tone, freespirited and eccentric performances of some of the late 20th century\u2019s most remarkable makers showed us what we have lost when the internet became a market-driven utility, but also what is always possible when we bring people together to converse and co-create.\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>CHANEL has been backing this festival for three years. How do you manage that relationship when the programming is often deliberately uncommercial?<\/strong><br \/>\nThe working relationship between M+ and CHANEL has always been very cordial, open and inspiring. M+ has full autonomy over the curatorial content while CHANEL helps us tell the stories with greater impact and bring artists, filmmakers, cultural practitioners and audiences together \u2014 which is critical for the festival\u2019s success in establishing itself as an essential platform for artists\u2019 moving images.<\/p>\n<div class=\"show-article\">\n<p>                                                            Read Full Article<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<footer>\n<div class=\"related-stories-main-wrapper\">\n<h3>Related Stories<\/h3>\n<div class=\"stories-container\" data-layer-list-name=\"related_stories\" data-layer-list-offset=\"0\" data-layer-list-child-selector=\".story-item\">\n<div class=\"story-item\" data-layer-item-id=\"6749950\" data-layer-item-blog-id=\"1\" data-layer-item-type=\"post\"><span>&gt;<\/span>Fairy Tale or Everyday Adventure? The Chanel &#8220;Gaby and the Beanstalk&#8221; Collection Rewrites Haute Couture\n                                                                        <\/div>\n<div class=\"story-item\" data-layer-item-id=\"6750443\" data-layer-item-blog-id=\"1\" data-layer-item-type=\"post\"><span>&gt;<\/span>I&#8217;m donut ? x UNIQLO&#8217;s NYC Capsule Packs Five Designs and a Nine-Character Cast\n                                                                        <\/div>\n<div class=\"story-item\" data-layer-item-id=\"6749430\" data-layer-item-blog-id=\"1\" data-layer-item-type=\"post\"><span>&gt;<\/span>McLaren Special Operations Reconstructs the Legendary One-Off M6GT for Goodwood 2026\n                                                                        <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-email-signup-wrapper impression-tracker\">\n<h3>We got you covered. Don\u2019t miss out on the latest news by signing up for our newsletters.<\/h3>\n<div class=\"terms\">By subscribing, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-body-author d-block d-lg-none\">\n<hr class=\"sidebar-divider share-divider\">\n<h6>Text By<\/h6>\n<p><span class=\"author-name\">Keith Estiler<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"post-body-share d-block d-lg-none\">\n<hr class=\"sidebar-divider\">\n<h6>Share this article<\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"brand-post-body-widget\">\n<hr class=\"sidebar-divider d-block d-lg-none\">\n<h6>In This Article<\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-body-content-tags\">\n<div class=\"body collapsed\">\n<p>    Chanelfilmm+\n                                                            <\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<section class=\"post__body__author_info\">\n<div class=\"post__body__author_info__inner\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/image-cdn.hypb.st\/https%3A%2F%2Fhypebeast.com%2Fimage%2F2026%2F06%2F05%2Fkeith-300.jpg?w=100&amp;cbr=1&amp;q=90&amp;fit=max\" alt=\"Keith Estiler\" class=\"post__body__author_info__avatar\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"post__body__author_info__body\">\n<p>                    Keith Estiler<\/p>\n<p>                                    <span class=\"post__body__author_info__title\">Managing Editor, Hypeart<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post__body__author_info__bio_wrapper\">\n<p class=\"post__body__author_info__bio\">Keith Estiler is a New York-born curator, writer, and the Managing Editor of Hypeart, the contemporary art arm of Hypebeast. Based in NYC, Keith heads up editorial strategy at the intersection of contemporary art and culture, capturing the icons and outliers of both the local and international scenes. He has curated exhibitions worldwide, dedicated to championing the emerging voices and subcultures currently redefining contemporary visual culture.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/footer>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-body-sidebar-upper\">\n<div class=\"post-body-sidebar-category d-none d-lg-block\">\n<p>    Art\n                                                                                                    <\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"post-body-sidebar-published d-none d-lg-block\"><time>Jul 2, 2026<\/time><\/div>\n<ul class=\"post-body-sidebar-hype-comments-container list-unstyled d-none d-lg-block\">\n<li><span class=\"hype-count grey\"><br \/>\n             407<br \/>\n    <\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"floating-tooltip\" role=\"tooltip\"><span>Views<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"disqus-comment-count\"><span>0<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"d-none d-sm-inline text\">Comments<\/span><\/span>\n<div class=\"floating-tooltip\" role=\"tooltip\"><span>Comments<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"text\">Save<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"post-body-sidebar-author d-none d-lg-block\">\n<hr class=\"sidebar-divider share-divider\">\n<h6>Text By<\/h6>\n<p><span class=\"author-name\">Keith Estiler<\/span><\/div>\n<hr class=\"sidebar-divider d-none d-lg-block\">\n<div class=\"post-body-sidebar-share d-none d-lg-block\">\n<h6>Share this article<\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<hr class=\"sidebar-divider d-none d-lg-block\">\n<div class=\"brand-sidebar-widget d-none d-lg-block\">\n<h6>In This Article<\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-body-sidebar-category d-none d-lg-block\">\n<p>    Art\n                                                                                                    <\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"post-body-sidebar-published d-none d-lg-block\"><time>Jul 2, 2026<\/time><\/div>\n<div class=\"post-body-sidebar-author d-none d-lg-block\">\n<hr class=\"sidebar-divider share-divider\">\n<h6>Text By<\/h6>\n<p><span class=\"author-name\">Keith Estiler<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"post-body-sidebar-share d-none d-lg-block\">\n<h6>Share this article<\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<article class=\"post-body-article\">\n<div class=\"post-video-container small inner-media \">\n<div class=\"embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9\">\n<div class=\"vast-media embed-responsive-item\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"M+ CHANEL Senior Curator Silke Schmickl on Building a New Era for Asian Avant-Garde Cinema video\">\n<div class=\"video-ad-main-container\">\n                    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tuSv4u5FZaA\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>?si=xxmElLVXZ2oG-sAY\n                    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"post-body-top-bar\" class=\"post-body-top-bar d-block d-lg-none\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"post-body-top-bar-share-meta-container\">\n<div class=\"post-body-top-bar-meta\"><span class=\"post-body-top-bar-category\"><\/p>\n<p>    Art<br \/>\n                                                    <\/span><span class=\"post-body-top-bar-published\"><time>Jul 2, 2026<\/time><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-body-top-bar-hype-comments-container \"><span class=\"hype-count grey\"><br \/>\n             407<br \/>\n    <\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"floating-tooltip\" role=\"tooltip\"><span>Views<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"disqus-comment-count\"><span>0<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"d-none d-none text\">Comments<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"floating-tooltip\" role=\"tooltip\"><span>Comments<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"text\">Save<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-body-content\">\n<p>The third edition of the M+ Asian Avant-Garde Film Festival (AAGFF), supported by CHANEL, concluded on May 31st after three days of film, music and performance exploring space as both an artistic principle and a geopolitical subject. Highlights included the world premiere of \u2018Lamya Gargash \u00d7 Vivian Wang: Tracking Nomadism (Live)\u2019, a newly commissioned live cinema collaboration supported by Chanel, alongside Rirkrit Tiravanija\u2019s interactive ping-pong installation and screenings of landmark works by Nam June Paik and Xu Bing.<\/p>\n<p>Now in its third year, AAGFF has cemented itself as one of Asia\u2019s most vital platforms for experimental film and moving image art, drawing independent filmmakers, artists and creative communities across the region under one roof. This edition\u2019s theme built on last year\u2019s exploration of time, turning its attention to space as a subject that cuts across composition and perspective in artmaking, the evolution of lens-based technologies and the geopolitical realities reshaping the world today. Below, CHANEL Senior Curator and Head of Moving Image at M+ in Hong Kong, Silke Schmickl, reflects on the programming.<\/p>\n<p><q>\u201cSpace is a critical principle of artmaking in all media and particularly interesting in lens-based media where artists have challenged the frame through expanded cinema and now \u2018frameless\u2019 immersion.\u201d<\/q><\/p>\n<p><strong>The festival title, \u201cSpace Enter Shift,\u201d is pretty open. How did you land on it?<\/strong><br \/>\nThe title is first and foremost an invitation for audiences to enter the festival space and to be shifted by what they experience. It acknowledges the importance of technology in the creation and reception of time-based art forms and is a playful nod to three essential keyboard keys: \u2018space\u2019, which inserts a blank character; \u2018enter\u2019, which confirms input or begins a new line; and \u2018shift\u2019, which modifies other keys. Space is a critical principle of artmaking in all media and particularly interesting in lens-based media where artists have challenged the frame within the image, through expanded cinema and now \u201cframeless\u201d immersion. The theme is also a subject matter to reflect on the global geopolitical shifts we are witnessing at the moment.\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Larissa Sansour\u2019s film tells of a Palestinian pirate reclaiming colonial artefacts. What made you want to bring that work to M+?<\/strong><br \/>\nSansour\u2019s practice investigates the political, social, economic and cultural dimensions of space grounded in her personal experience of exile. Her latest film \u2018A Sunken Tale of Losses Delayed\u2019 provided an excellent opportunity to premiere her work in Asia. The repatriation of looted objects is an important topic in the context of Asia\u2019s post-colonial institutional history, and the motif of a ship interested us as a heterotopia in the sense of Foucault. The position of the main character, a pirate, introduces a radical shift in perspective. This edition has also seen several presentations of female artists from West Asia including Sansour, Samia Halaby, Basma Al-Sharif and Lamya Gargash.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"shortcode-slider before-booted full-screen-enabled light\" data-width=\"100%\" data-animate=\"slide\" data-slideshow data-loop data-slideshowspeed=\"7000\" data-group-cells=\"1\">\n<div class=\"flickity-carousel\">\n<div class=\"flickity-carousel-cell\" data-gallery-index=\"1\"><span class=\"gallery-image-index\"><span class=\"image-index\">1 of 9<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/image-cdn.hypb.st\/https%3A%2F%2Fhypebeast.com%2Fimage%2F2026%2F06%2F25%2F2R8A8960-scaled.jpg\" alt><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"flickity-carousel-cell\" data-gallery-index=\"2\"><span class=\"gallery-image-index\"><span class=\"image-index\">2 of 9<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/image-cdn.hypb.st\/https%3A%2F%2Fhypebeast.com%2Fimage%2F2026%2F06%2F04%2Fchanel-curator-silke-schmickl-on-asian-cinema-1.jpg\" alt><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"flickity-carousel-cell\" data-gallery-index=\"3\"><span class=\"gallery-image-index\"><span class=\"image-index\">3 of 9<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/image-cdn.hypb.st\/https%3A%2F%2Fhypebeast.com%2Fimage%2F2026%2F06%2F04%2Fchanel-curator-silke-schmickl-on-asian-cinema-2.jpg\" alt><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"flickity-carousel-cell\" data-gallery-index=\"4\"><span class=\"gallery-image-index\"><span class=\"image-index\">4 of 9<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/image-cdn.hypb.st\/https%3A%2F%2Fhypebeast.com%2Fimage%2F2026%2F06%2F04%2Fchanel-curator-silke-schmickl-on-asian-cinema-3.jpg\" alt><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"flickity-carousel-cell\" data-gallery-index=\"5\"><span class=\"gallery-image-index\"><span class=\"image-index\">5 of 9<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/image-cdn.hypb.st\/https%3A%2F%2Fhypebeast.com%2Fimage%2F2026%2F06%2F04%2Fchanel-curator-silke-schmickl-on-asian-cinema-4.jpg\" alt><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"flickity-carousel-cell\" data-gallery-index=\"6\"><span class=\"gallery-image-index\"><span class=\"image-index\">6 of 9<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/image-cdn.hypb.st\/https%3A%2F%2Fhypebeast.com%2Fimage%2F2026%2F06%2F04%2Fchanel-curator-silke-schmickl-on-asian-cinema-5.jpg\" alt><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"flickity-carousel-cell\" data-gallery-index=\"7\"><span class=\"gallery-image-index\"><span class=\"image-index\">7 of 9<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/image-cdn.hypb.st\/https%3A%2F%2Fhypebeast.com%2Fimage%2F2026%2F06%2F04%2Fchanel-curator-silke-schmickl-on-asian-cinema-6.jpg\" alt><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"flickity-carousel-cell\" data-gallery-index=\"8\"><span class=\"gallery-image-index\"><span class=\"image-index\">8 of 9<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/image-cdn.hypb.st\/https%3A%2F%2Fhypebeast.com%2Fimage%2F2026%2F06%2F04%2Fchanel-curator-silke-schmickl-on-asian-cinema-7.jpg\" alt><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"flickity-carousel-cell\" data-gallery-index=\"9\"><span class=\"gallery-image-index\"><span class=\"image-index\">9 of 9<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/image-cdn.hypb.st\/https%3A%2F%2Fhypebeast.com%2Fimage%2F2026%2F06%2F04%2Fchanel-curator-silke-schmickl-on-asian-cinema-8.jpg\" alt><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Xu Bing built <em>Dragonfly Eyes<\/em> entirely from surveillance footage. Where do you see the most interesting boundary-pushing in moving image right now?<\/strong><br \/>\n\u2018Dragonfly Eyes\u2019 is a prime example of how conceptual artists might no longer create their own images but find new ways of recontextualising and critically analysing the huge amounts of visual data that is produced every day, such as surveillance camera footage in Xu Bing\u2019s case. Such self-reflexive approaches that shed new light on the excessive production of images and their potential instrumentalisation are some of the most boundary-pushing responses by contemporary artists today.\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Paik\u2019s <em>Wrap Around the World<\/em> was a live global broadcast in 1988. What does it feel like to screen that in 2026?<\/strong><br \/>\nIt was powerful to revisit his techno-optimism in a pre-globalised world. The utopian tone, freespirited and eccentric performances of some of the late 20th century\u2019s most remarkable makers showed us what we have lost when the internet became a market-driven utility, but also what is always possible when we bring people together to converse and co-create.\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>CHANEL has been backing this festival for three years. How do you manage that relationship when the programming is often deliberately uncommercial?<\/strong><br \/>\nThe working relationship between M+ and CHANEL has always been very cordial, open and inspiring. M+ has full autonomy over the curatorial content while CHANEL helps us tell the stories with greater impact and bring artists, filmmakers, cultural practitioners and audiences together \u2014 which is critical for the festival\u2019s success in establishing itself as an essential platform for artists\u2019 moving images.<\/p>\n<div class=\"show-article\">\n<p>                                                            Read Full Article<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<footer>\n<div class=\"related-stories-main-wrapper\">\n<h3>Related Stories<\/h3>\n<div class=\"stories-container\" data-layer-list-name=\"related_stories\" data-layer-list-offset=\"0\" data-layer-list-child-selector=\".story-item\">\n<div class=\"story-item\" data-layer-item-id=\"6749950\" data-layer-item-blog-id=\"1\" data-layer-item-type=\"post\"><span>&gt;<\/span>Fairy Tale or Everyday Adventure? 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Don\u2019t miss out on the latest news by signing up for our newsletters.<\/h3>\n<div class=\"terms\">By subscribing, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-body-author d-block d-lg-none\">\n<hr class=\"sidebar-divider share-divider\">\n<h6>Text By<\/h6>\n<p><span class=\"author-name\">Keith Estiler<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"post-body-share d-block d-lg-none\">\n<hr class=\"sidebar-divider\">\n<h6>Share this article<\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"brand-post-body-widget\">\n<hr class=\"sidebar-divider d-block d-lg-none\">\n<h6>In This Article<\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-body-content-tags\">\n<div class=\"body collapsed\">\n<p>    Chanelfilmm+\n                                                            <\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<section class=\"post__body__author_info\">\n<div class=\"post__body__author_info__inner\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/image-cdn.hypb.st\/https%3A%2F%2Fhypebeast.com%2Fimage%2F2026%2F06%2F05%2Fkeith-300.jpg?w=100&amp;cbr=1&amp;q=90&amp;fit=max\" alt=\"Keith Estiler\" class=\"post__body__author_info__avatar\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"post__body__author_info__body\">\n<p>                    Keith Estiler<\/p>\n<p>                                    <span class=\"post__body__author_info__title\">Managing Editor, Hypeart<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post__body__author_info__bio_wrapper\">\n<p class=\"post__body__author_info__bio\">Keith Estiler is a New York-born curator, writer, and the Managing Editor of Hypeart, the contemporary art arm of Hypebeast. Based in NYC, Keith heads up editorial strategy at the intersection of contemporary art and culture, capturing the icons and outliers of both the local and international scenes. He has curated exhibitions worldwide, dedicated to championing the emerging voices and subcultures currently redefining contemporary visual culture.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/footer>\n<\/article>\n<div id=\"post-body-top-bar\" class=\"post-body-top-bar d-block d-lg-none\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"post-body-top-bar-share-meta-container\">\n<div class=\"post-body-top-bar-meta\"><span class=\"post-body-top-bar-category\"><\/p>\n<p>    Art<br \/>\n                                                    <\/span><span class=\"post-body-top-bar-published\"><time>Jul 2, 2026<\/time><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-body-top-bar-hype-comments-container \"><span class=\"hype-count grey\"><br \/>\n             407<br \/>\n    <\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"floating-tooltip\" role=\"tooltip\"><span>Views<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"disqus-comment-count\"><span>0<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"d-none d-none text\">Comments<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"floating-tooltip\" role=\"tooltip\"><span>Comments<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"text\">Save<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-body-top-bar-share-meta-container\">\n<div class=\"post-body-top-bar-meta\"><span class=\"post-body-top-bar-category\"><\/p>\n<p>    Art<br \/>\n                                                    <\/span><span class=\"post-body-top-bar-published\"><time>Jul 2, 2026<\/time><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-body-top-bar-meta\"><span class=\"post-body-top-bar-category\"><\/p>\n<p>    Art<br \/>\n                                                    <\/span><span class=\"post-body-top-bar-published\"><time>Jul 2, 2026<\/time><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"post-body-top-bar-hype-comments-container \"><span class=\"hype-count grey\"><br \/>\n             407<br \/>\n    <\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"floating-tooltip\" role=\"tooltip\"><span>Views<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"disqus-comment-count\"><span>0<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"d-none d-none text\">Comments<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"floating-tooltip\" role=\"tooltip\"><span>Comments<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"text\">Save<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"post-body-content\">\n<p>The third edition of the M+ Asian Avant-Garde Film Festival (AAGFF), supported by CHANEL, concluded on May 31st after three days of film, music and performance exploring space as both an artistic principle and a geopolitical subject. Highlights included the world premiere of \u2018Lamya Gargash \u00d7 Vivian Wang: Tracking Nomadism (Live)\u2019, a newly commissioned live cinema collaboration supported by Chanel, alongside Rirkrit Tiravanija\u2019s interactive ping-pong installation and screenings of landmark works by Nam June Paik and Xu Bing.<\/p>\n<p>Now in its third year, AAGFF has cemented itself as one of Asia\u2019s most vital platforms for experimental film and moving image art, drawing independent filmmakers, artists and creative communities across the region under one roof. This edition\u2019s theme built on last year\u2019s exploration of time, turning its attention to space as a subject that cuts across composition and perspective in artmaking, the evolution of lens-based technologies and the geopolitical realities reshaping the world today. Below, CHANEL Senior Curator and Head of Moving Image at M+ in Hong Kong, Silke Schmickl, reflects on the programming.<\/p>\n<p><q>\u201cSpace is a critical principle of artmaking in all media and particularly interesting in lens-based media where artists have challenged the frame through expanded cinema and now \u2018frameless\u2019 immersion.\u201d<\/q><\/p>\n<p><strong>The festival title, \u201cSpace Enter Shift,\u201d is pretty open. How did you land on it?<\/strong><br \/>\nThe title is first and foremost an invitation for audiences to enter the festival space and to be shifted by what they experience. It acknowledges the importance of technology in the creation and reception of time-based art forms and is a playful nod to three essential keyboard keys: \u2018space\u2019, which inserts a blank character; \u2018enter\u2019, which confirms input or begins a new line; and \u2018shift\u2019, which modifies other keys. Space is a critical principle of artmaking in all media and particularly interesting in lens-based media where artists have challenged the frame within the image, through expanded cinema and now \u201cframeless\u201d immersion. The theme is also a subject matter to reflect on the global geopolitical shifts we are witnessing at the moment.\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Larissa Sansour\u2019s film tells of a Palestinian pirate reclaiming colonial artefacts. What made you want to bring that work to M+?<\/strong><br \/>\nSansour\u2019s practice investigates the political, social, economic and cultural dimensions of space grounded in her personal experience of exile. Her latest film \u2018A Sunken Tale of Losses Delayed\u2019 provided an excellent opportunity to premiere her work in Asia. The repatriation of looted objects is an important topic in the context of Asia\u2019s post-colonial institutional history, and the motif of a ship interested us as a heterotopia in the sense of Foucault. The position of the main character, a pirate, introduces a radical shift in perspective. This edition has also seen several presentations of female artists from West Asia including Sansour, Samia Halaby, Basma Al-Sharif and Lamya Gargash.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"shortcode-slider before-booted full-screen-enabled light\" data-width=\"100%\" data-animate=\"slide\" data-slideshow data-loop data-slideshowspeed=\"7000\" data-group-cells=\"1\">\n<div class=\"flickity-carousel\">\n<div class=\"flickity-carousel-cell\" data-gallery-index=\"1\"><span class=\"gallery-image-index\"><span class=\"image-index\">1 of 9<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/image-cdn.hypb.st\/https%3A%2F%2Fhypebeast.com%2Fimage%2F2026%2F06%2F25%2F2R8A8960-scaled.jpg\" alt><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"flickity-carousel-cell\" data-gallery-index=\"2\"><span class=\"gallery-image-index\"><span class=\"image-index\">2 of 9<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/image-cdn.hypb.st\/https%3A%2F%2Fhypebeast.com%2Fimage%2F2026%2F06%2F04%2Fchanel-curator-silke-schmickl-on-asian-cinema-1.jpg\" alt><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"flickity-carousel-cell\" data-gallery-index=\"3\"><span class=\"gallery-image-index\"><span class=\"image-index\">3 of 9<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/image-cdn.hypb.st\/https%3A%2F%2Fhypebeast.com%2Fimage%2F2026%2F06%2F04%2Fchanel-curator-silke-schmickl-on-asian-cinema-2.jpg\" alt><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"flickity-carousel-cell\" data-gallery-index=\"4\"><span class=\"gallery-image-index\"><span class=\"image-index\">4 of 9<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/image-cdn.hypb.st\/https%3A%2F%2Fhypebeast.com%2Fimage%2F2026%2F06%2F04%2Fchanel-curator-silke-schmickl-on-asian-cinema-3.jpg\" alt><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"flickity-carousel-cell\" data-gallery-index=\"5\"><span class=\"gallery-image-index\"><span class=\"image-index\">5 of 9<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/image-cdn.hypb.st\/https%3A%2F%2Fhypebeast.com%2Fimage%2F2026%2F06%2F04%2Fchanel-curator-silke-schmickl-on-asian-cinema-4.jpg\" alt><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"flickity-carousel-cell\" data-gallery-index=\"6\"><span class=\"gallery-image-index\"><span class=\"image-index\">6 of 9<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/image-cdn.hypb.st\/https%3A%2F%2Fhypebeast.com%2Fimage%2F2026%2F06%2F04%2Fchanel-curator-silke-schmickl-on-asian-cinema-5.jpg\" alt><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"flickity-carousel-cell\" data-gallery-index=\"7\"><span class=\"gallery-image-index\"><span class=\"image-index\">7 of 9<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/image-cdn.hypb.st\/https%3A%2F%2Fhypebeast.com%2Fimage%2F2026%2F06%2F04%2Fchanel-curator-silke-schmickl-on-asian-cinema-6.jpg\" alt><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"flickity-carousel-cell\" data-gallery-index=\"8\"><span class=\"gallery-image-index\"><span class=\"image-index\">8 of 9<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/image-cdn.hypb.st\/https%3A%2F%2Fhypebeast.com%2Fimage%2F2026%2F06%2F04%2Fchanel-curator-silke-schmickl-on-asian-cinema-7.jpg\" alt><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"flickity-carousel-cell\" data-gallery-index=\"9\"><span class=\"gallery-image-index\"><span class=\"image-index\">9 of 9<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/image-cdn.hypb.st\/https%3A%2F%2Fhypebeast.com%2Fimage%2F2026%2F06%2F04%2Fchanel-curator-silke-schmickl-on-asian-cinema-8.jpg\" alt><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Xu Bing built <em>Dragonfly Eyes<\/em> entirely from surveillance footage. Where do you see the most interesting boundary-pushing in moving image right now?<\/strong><br \/>\n\u2018Dragonfly Eyes\u2019 is a prime example of how conceptual artists might no longer create their own images but find new ways of recontextualising and critically analysing the huge amounts of visual data that is produced every day, such as surveillance camera footage in Xu Bing\u2019s case. Such self-reflexive approaches that shed new light on the excessive production of images and their potential instrumentalisation are some of the most boundary-pushing responses by contemporary artists today.\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Paik\u2019s <em>Wrap Around the World<\/em> was a live global broadcast in 1988. What does it feel like to screen that in 2026?<\/strong><br \/>\nIt was powerful to revisit his techno-optimism in a pre-globalised world. The utopian tone, freespirited and eccentric performances of some of the late 20th century\u2019s most remarkable makers showed us what we have lost when the internet became a market-driven utility, but also what is always possible when we bring people together to converse and co-create.\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>CHANEL has been backing this festival for three years. How do you manage that relationship when the programming is often deliberately uncommercial?<\/strong><br \/>\nThe working relationship between M+ and CHANEL has always been very cordial, open and inspiring. M+ has full autonomy over the curatorial content while CHANEL helps us tell the stories with greater impact and bring artists, filmmakers, cultural practitioners and audiences together \u2014 which is critical for the festival\u2019s success in establishing itself as an essential platform for artists\u2019 moving images.<\/p>\n<div class=\"show-article\">\n<p>                                                            Read Full Article<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-body-author d-block d-lg-none\">\n<hr class=\"sidebar-divider share-divider\">\n<h6>Text By<\/h6>\n<p><span class=\"author-name\">Keith Estiler<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"post-body-share d-block d-lg-none\">\n<hr class=\"sidebar-divider\">\n<h6>Share this article<\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"brand-post-body-widget\">\n<hr class=\"sidebar-divider d-block d-lg-none\">\n<h6>In This Article<\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-body-content-tags\">\n<div class=\"body collapsed\">\n<p>    Chanelfilmm+\n                                                            <\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[analyse_source url=&#8221;https:\/\/hypebeast.com\/2026\/6\/chanel-curator-silke-schmickl-on-asian-cinema&#8221;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/image-cdn.hypb.st\/https%3A%2F%2Fhypebeast.com%2Fimage%2F2026%2F06%2F04%2Fchanel-curator-silke-schmickl-on-asian-cinema-tw.jpg?w=1080&amp;cbr=1&amp;q=90&amp;fit=max&#8221;] Art Jul 2, 2026 407 Views 0\u00a0Comments Comments Save Text By Keith Estiler Share this article In This Article ?si=xxmElLVXZ2oG-sAY Art Jul 2, 2026 407 Views 0\u00a0Comments Comments Save The third edition of the M+ Asian Avant-Garde Film Festival (AAGFF), supported by CHANEL, concluded on May 31st after three days of film, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[226,39],"class_list":["post-2032597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-crawlmanager","tag-hypebeast-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2032597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2032597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2032597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2032597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2032597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2032597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}