The Quiet Corner is a Truman Show-esque filmset that explores the poetry of longing for home through architecture and film. Sited in Mong Kok, which directly translates as ‘Busy Corner’, a singular street is enveloped with a cage-like structure and converted into a series of film sets. In a touching, yet delusional frenzy, the architect (the protagonist) places himself within the film in the hope of finding comfort in the virtual world he has now created for himself.

Poetic moments of long-lost memories puncture the street-sets, reminding the protagonist of home. Run-down façades, scaffolding structures, bridges, newspaper stalls and taxis are all augmented through set design and film techniques to help transport him to another place and time.

With the architecture created and the script written, the film begins. From his rented flat in London, the protagonist uses a hand-made greenscreen to (dis)place himself into his virtual memories. His computer unlocks and reveals the poetry of this place, also showing us – the viewer – his delusions of what reality is to him now.