Film Fest Gent - Videodroom 2026: Yu Su x 'Life is Cheap... But Toilet Paper Is Expensive': Dates, Cities & Tickets

Film Fest Gent, Videodroom 2026 presents a unique live‑music–film experience: Yu Su x “Life is Cheap… But Toilet Paper Is Expensive.”

Prepare to be transported to pre‑handover Hong Kong where Wayne Wang’s early masterpiece “Life Is Cheap… But Toilet Paper Is Expensive” unfolds. The film follows a nameless “cowboy” courier, played by Spencer Nakasako, who races across every layer of the city’s social strata to deliver a mysterious briefcase to a mercurial mob boss. Along the way he becomes entangled with the femme‑fatale mistress Cora Miao. Wang layers genre deconstruction, guerrilla docu‑fiction, and fierce political commentary into a sharp‑swept Neo‑noir narrative, supported by memorable monologues from fortune families, cab drivers, hustlers, and butchers that capture a now‑distant era in Hong Kong history.

The film’s original score is an all‑new electronic extravaganza by London‑based, Kaifeng‑born artist Yu Su. Known for her dubby textures and left‑field dance pulses, Yu Su has released music on the UK’s Technicolor, the Netherlands’ Music from Memory, and China’s Bie Records, earned a Polaris Prize nomination, and remixed tracks for Parquet Courts and King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard. She has performed worldwide at Dekmantel, Glastonbury, Boiler Room, Nuits Sonores, and many other festivals, where her intuitive DJ sets turn dancefloors into ethereal spaces of transforming rhythms.

For those who want to experience this maverick tour de force, a film celebrated on the 1990s international festival circuit yet long overlooked in North America, don't miss this rediscovery event.

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