Overview of articles
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Wong Ping’s Fables 2
What does an ex-activist cow and a three-headed rabbit have in common? They’re both doomed in Wong Ping’s political animated fable.Published on: -
Kin’s Hair
Hong Kong’s story is a history of loss, embodied (or rather disembodied) in the hairs on Kin’s head, which fall out one by one.Published on: -
Home, and a Distant Archive
Cinema decodes history in this elegant, experimental portrait of four Hong Kong women working on their city’s archives in London.Published on: -
Eye Bags
An insomniac woman discovers that the particularly large bags under her eyes have become an attractive home for A Gum, a goldfish with a thing…Published on: -
Gangs
A searing portrayal of marginalised, underclass Hong Kong youth raging in a city under British colonial rule.Published on: -
Ten Years
Five shorts by young directors asked to imagine, in 2015, what their city might look like ten years later. Surprisingly prophetic.Published on: -
From Its Mouth Came a River of High-End Residential Appliances
A journey through Hong Kong’s dragon gates as research into contemporary fengshui practices while contemplating the mythology and selfhood.Published on: -
Once Upon a Time in Shanghai
A Hong Kong ode to pre-war Shanghai. The legendary city of pulsating nightclubs, Japanese spies and dandy gangsters, summed up in stylish black-and-whPublished on: -
La dialectique peut-elle casser des briques? (animated version)
A vibrant reworking of René Viénet’s very own 1973 situationist comedy monument in a most surprising form: a digitally rotoscoped animatPublished on: -
Ordinary Heroes
Director Ann Hui develops interlocking stories of several activists and HKers in the 1980s, building subdued melodrama to a shattering climax.Published on: