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"Hong Kong Lost or Found?" is a film series that features four extraordinary works of two documentary film makers – Evans Chan (陳耀成) and Chan Tze-woon (陳梓桓) -- who have chronicled Hong Kong’s two transitions (1997 and 2020) and major social protests in between. The four films are free and accessible to all online, each for a 24-hour period.
Yellowing 亂世備忘 by Chan Tsz-woon (2016, Hong Kong, Documentary, 128 min, in Cantonese and English with Chinese & English subtitles)
The turmoil that has overtaken Hong Kong since its return to Chinese sovereignty in 1997 has spawned a new generation of young, passionately committed activist filmmakers; they want to tell Hong Kong's story with Hong Kong voices. And the best indie documentary to have emerged so far from the HKSAR is this year's Yellowing, by Chan Tze Woon, a 29-year-old with degrees in policy studies and film production. Hong Kong's fraught, tense relationship with its mainland Chinese overseers came to a head with the Umbrella Movement of 2014. A crowd of protesters stormed Civic Square on September 27. The next day police shocked most residents of the HKSAR by attacking the growing crowds with volleys of tear gas, whereupon a wide cross section of Hong Kongers occupied the streets in several areas and stayed for almost 6 weeks. Chan took his camera on the streets for 67 days during these events. He shot 1000 hours of footage, out of which he crafted a sensational and moving document featuring revealing portraits of students who camped out on the streets and organized a temporary, alternative, cooperative and communitarian Hong Kong. Richly detailed, engrossing and dramatic, this film captures the sights, sounds, and feelings of a time when tens of thousands of Hong Kong citizens, led by energized and idealistic youth, defied their government and demanded real democracy.
When Umbrella Movement happened two years ago; when tens of thousands took on the streets of Hong Kong in fight of democracy, student leaders had become the heart of the civil disobedient movement and public attention. But Yellowing is not a documentary that celebrates stars and leaders, nor does it give a journalistic account of the movement. Rather it shed light on the nameless, ordinary young people and their most heartfelt emotions. Their frustration, timidity and sadness- all but to be channeled away in wits and determination. The film is composed of 20 memorandum, each recording a different aspect of the movement. Some being scenes of violence we saw in the news, but more of daily chores, that in the most realistic respect, made this seemingly unrealistic defiance possible. Where there is discord, may we bring harmony; and where there is despair, may we bring hope. With his camera, director Chan Tze-woon had recorded a reminder for his 2014 - the year when he was full of dreams and courage.
Co-organizers: Global Hong Kong Studies@UC, Hong Kong on Screen, Melnitz Movies
Cosponsors: UCLA Asia Pacific center, UCLA Center for Chinese Studies, UC Davis East Asian Studies, UCSD 21st Century China Center, UCSD International Institute, UCI Center for Asian Studies, Pomona College Asian Studies
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Sehr schön, danke.
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Sylvio Constabel
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Gesehen. Gute Zusammenfassung aller Ereignisse von damals. Die Videoaufnahmen zeigen nun nicht unbedingt Neues, führen aber vor Augen, wie viel Vertrauen die Studenten in ihr Unterfangen hatten. Rückblickend und mit den heutigen Erkenntnissen ist das natürlich noch mal bitterer.
