Ho Sin Tung’s new 80-minute video shows a sequence of 17 people reading a passage* from a book they have chosen themselves, at different indoor and outdoor locations in Hong Kong, the mainland and Macau.

Readers in the video include: Au Hoi Lam, Au Wah Yan, John Batten, Sushan Chan, Cu Zheng, t t Ho, Alice Ho, Lau Kam Hung, Eli Lau, Liu Wei, Michelle Lee, Leung Wing Kwan, Joao Li, Aenon Loo, Iris Sham, Sindy Wong, Wong Wai Yin.

This deceptively simple video, however, has a psychological tension reflected in its title, Folie à deux, a term describing “a condition in which symptoms of a mental disorder, such as the same delusional beliefs or ideas, occur simultaneously in two individuals who share a close relationship or association.” In Ho’s video, the intimate relationship is between the reader and the on-looking viewer, heightened by each reader filmed with their back to the viewer. The view becomes an almost confessional as each read passage reflects an intimate and potentially embarrassing part of the personality or ‘soul’ of the reader; viewers listening, identifying with the reader.

Ho Sin Tung graduated from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2008 and held her inaugural solo exhibition, Don’t Shoot the Messenger, at Hanart TZ Gallery in 2010. She has participated in group exhibitions and received the Best Creativity Award (Student Division) at the 2008 Fresh Wave Short Film Competition.

* the video has full Chinese & English subtitles