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"Local Concerns
— Hong Kong
Documentaries
Before and After
the 1997
Handover"
Curator: Bryan
CHANG (Film
critic, Hong
Kong independent
film director)
Speakers: LEE Wai-yi (v-artivist
Director),
Vincent CHUI
(Independent
filmmaker, Ying
E Chi Artistic
Director)
It is common for
documentaries to
be initiated by
the emergence of
major
socio-political
events,
especially at
times in search
of
self-identification
and sense of
belonging out of
uncertainties.
Hong Kong is
under the
spotlight of the
international
media at the
historic moment
of “one country,
two systems” in
1997 – when
visionary locals
used
documentaries to
mark a
spontaneous
study of their
identification(s),
the fear of
Communism is not
the only voice
raised. We
cannot speak of
local
identification
nor become who
we are today
without first
strengthening
local
consciousness.
Together we
project hope
while doing
retrospection,
and to walk
through the slow
pace of
development of
Hong Kong
documentaries.
Date and time:
6/ 1/ 2012 (Fri)
7:30pm
Venue: agnès b.
CINEMA, Hong
Kong Arts Centre
Conducted in
Cantonese. Free
Admission.
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