Inspired by the director’s own childhood experience, this single-player game places the players into the first-person perspective of a 5-year-old child, who, after being expelled by his father, wanders in the hallway outside his home.
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Kwan Tsz-wai Alan
2016
Hong Kong
Official Selection, "The Interstitial" by Pearl Lam Galleries
2016
United States
Official Selection, MIT Keller Gallery
Born in 1990 in Hong Kong, Alan Kwan is a
digital media artist and researcher. He transforms his personal experiences
through the mediums of film, immersive virtual reality, and flying machine to
study the nature of pain, human memories, and simulation technology.
Kwan’s previous projects
were shown at international venues including the Ars Electronica Center in
Austria, the ZKM Center for Art and Media in Germany, and the Museum of
Contemporary Art (MOCA) Shanghai. In 2015, Kwan was awarded first prize of the
MIT Harold and Arlene Schnitzer Prize. Other recent accomplishments include the
Asian Cultural Council Fellowship and the Hong Kong Arts Development Council
Award for Young Artist (Media Art).
He holds a Master of Science degree in Art, Culture, and Technology from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and currently lives and works in Boston
and Hong Kong.
Remarks shared after Festival
“NAE is one the best
funding programs I have known. It provides real and solid support for artists
and film-makers. It supported my trip to Tokyo participating in the game art
exhibition "PLAY.. [More]
“NAE is one the best
funding programs I have known. It provides real and solid support for artists
and film-makers. It supported my trip to Tokyo participating in the game art
exhibition "PLAY.GROUND: video game art from Hong Kong", which is the
first presentation of Hong Kong video game art to an overseas audience. The
trip has enabled me to share my works and experiences with the Japanese
audiences and I got a lot of great feedback. It was really interesting to
present our works there because Japan has such a deep cultural history with
videogame and I learnt a lot from a number of Japanese artists who work in this
field. ”
— Shared by Kwan Tsz-wai Alan, director of The Hallway after attending PLAY.GROUND:
video game art from Hong Kong in Japan, under the sponsorship of NAE.
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