‘A New New Town’ is an allegorical architecture-film that aims to narrate Hong Kong’s new collective consciousness, by suggesting that its New Town Plaza mall is a microcosm of Hong Kong.

By transporting the viewer to a parallel dimension of the mall, the short film ultimately prompts the allegorical questions: Is the destiny of the mall fixed? Might a different future reflect an alternative fate for Hong Kong?

The film follows a boy who enters a surreal parallel dimension of New Town Plaza and wanders through its three spaces. These explore ideas of remembering the past, savouring the present and building the future. The three spaces act as architectural characters who spatially guide the boy through a ‘coming-of-age journey in reverse’ to rediscover his lost childhood and innocence. Allegorically, the boy’s journey represents Hong Konger’s rediscovery of their love towards the city and their innocent dream to preserve their expiring identity and reclaim their right to the city. Universally, it is a story that encourages one to break free from worldly social expectations and forge their own future according to their own beliefs.