Viral Films Produced by Visual Suspect
Hong Kong,
flipped.
The films that made the internet look at our city twice.
Staff Picks. Five times, Vimeo’s own curators chose a film we made.
Hong Kong, seen twice.
The city’s own newsrooms ran them. Its art fair screened them. The world kept writing about a Hong Kong it had never seen like this.
8 days
From upload to eight outlets for The Allegory of the Cave, July 2016.
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Hong Kong newsrooms ran them.
Hong Kong Free Press, twice. Coconuts HK. Hypebeast.
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Films on show at the Hong Kong Affordable Art Fair.
2019. Allegory, Theory of Relativity, Singularity, Pandemia.
301,981
Plays for one film.
Low Earth Orbit, our most watched.
2025
Still being written about.
Moss and Fog featured The Allegory of the Cave in January 2025, eight years after it first went round.
How a film goes viral · The Allegory of the Cave · Vimeo Staff Pick
Eight outlets.
Eight days.
On 12 July 2016 we put The Allegory of the Cave on Vimeo: Hong Kong, folded onto itself. Vimeo made it a Staff Pick. Three days later Gizmodo, PetaPixel and Laughing Squid had it. By the 20th, so did Hong Kong Free Press, Hypebeast, DPReview, Coconuts HK and The Awesomer.
- 12 JulUploaded to Vimeo
- 15 JulGizmodo · PetaPixel · Laughing Squid
- 16 JulHong Kong Free Press
- 18 JulHypebeast
- 19 JulDPReview · Coconuts HK
- 20 JulThe Awesomer
- 30 JulMetalocus
“break-your-eye-balls stunning”
“kaleidoscopic visuals are bending our minds”
Shown at the Hong Kong Affordable Art Fair, 2019. More about the film
The headlines
wrote themselves.
Keep scrolling and they write themselves again. Tap any one to flip it over.
The films.
Press play. What each one did, and what people wrote about it.
Vimeo Staff Pick · 2017
Theory of Relativity
The city’s glass towers as moving mirrors. No effects, only the camera.
“The essay, beautifully haunting in its imagery”
Shown at the Hong Kong Affordable Art Fair, 2019. More about the film
Vimeo Staff Pick · 2017
Singularity
Hong Kong through the eyes of an artificial intelligence, meeting our world for the first time.
Vimeo Staff Pick · 2020
Circulatory Systems
Highways as arteries and veins. Real footage, nothing but crop and repeat.
“deftly compares major highways to human arteries and veins”
“beautifully dizzying, surreal experimental film”
2019 · Documentary short
Pandemia
Hong Kong’s public spaces, crossed by people walking alone inside their screens.
“another thought-provoking take on Hong Kong”
Shown at the Hong Kong Affordable Art Fair, 2019. More about the film
Vimeo Staff Pick · 2017 · Folegandros, Greece
Low Earth Orbit
Orbital drone-lapses over one Greek island. Our most watched film.
“drone footage from Hong Kong-based production company Visual Suspect will provide it”
“A Mesmerizing Drone Time-lapse Short by Visual Suspect”
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Gizmodo · Colossal · PetaPixel · ArchDaily · DPReview · Hong Kong Free Press · Hypebeast · Coconuts HK · Laughing Squid · The Drive · The Awesomer · Metalocus · Uncrate · Moss and Fog
In colour: Hong Kong’s own newsrooms.
Hong Kong,
seen everywhere.
Produced by Visual Suspect.
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