Director：Vincent Chui
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Hong Kong No Wave
—— Independent Films from the SAR
This is two prosperous cities meeting on a narrow path.
Routines have smoothened the rough edges, as if nothing has disrupted their increasingly similar appearances. But memories and reality keep interrupting these simple stories, asking questions. Beneath the mirror-like stillness, life is in abundance. There are noises even when there is no wave.
A showcase of moving images from outside the mainstream of Hong Kong's film industry. A look at the production and consumption of visuals by the seven million inhabitants of Hong Kong in the past 15 years – within their reality and beyond their imagination. Be it documentary or fiction, weaving in and out of these images, is an attempt to understand Hong Kong and to face up one's dreams.
These are two cities so similar that they draw out a sense of homesickness from each other. But this time, the Hong Kong that walks towards us is a stranger, it beckons the stranger within us. Lion Rock, Suzhou Creek, they are no more; but 2046 is upon us.
Rice Distribution
Saturday July 7th 6P.M.
Director: Tammy Chenung
Hong Kong/ 2003 / 35 min
In Cantonese with Chinese subtitles
Film Synopsis:
During the seventh lunar month, when the Ghost Festival takes place, Chinese pay tribute to their ancestors and offer food to the deceased to appease them and ward off bad luck. In Hong Kong, besides staging ceremonies to honor the dead, many Taoist organizations give away rice to the elderly and the poor. The rice distribution depicted in this film was one of the largest events, and attracted over eight thousand people. The event was scheduled to last from nine in the morning to six in the evening. In order to ensure a place in the line, most of the participants arrived before dawn.
One-Way Street On A Turntable
Saturday July 7th 6:40 P.M.
Director: Anson Mak
Hong Kong/ 2008 /Color, B&W / 74min
In Cantonese, Mandarin and English with Chinese subtitles
Film Synopsis:
Tracing personal histories from spatial memories is the essence of this film. And identities… have been tarrying between moving and rootedness… This film is about how people understand Hong Kong and Hong Kongers, thus also about how we understand ourselves, as Hong Kongers.
Director’s Statement:
This film is about how people understand Hong Kong and Hong Kongers, thus also about how we understand ourselves, as Hong Kongers.
Tracing personal histories from spatial memories is the essence of this film. The juxtaposition of two stories on “first home” ─director’s story (as a local born Hong Konger) in Kwun Tong and the actress’ story (a new immigrant from China to Hong Kong in the 80's) in Mei Foo Sun Chuen, may re-inscribe Hong Kong history and Hong Kongers' changing identities in a more interesting way than what the grand narrative history offers, be it the British colonial government, or the seemingly self-governed Hong Kong government under People's Republic of China.
And identities… have been tarrying between moving and rootedness…
Director’s Biography:
Anson Mak Hoi Shan is a local born Hong Konger. She is a writer, blogger, phonographer, film/video artist and a cultural critic. She has obtained a BSSc from the Department of Cinema and Television, School of Communication at Hong Kong Baptist University in 1991, and a Master of Philosophy in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Hong Kong in 2000; and is at present studying a Doctor of Fine Art programme at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University, and also working in Hong Kong on research projects and teaching – in universities and community centres. She has created more than twenty film/video works, some of which have been awarded in the Hong Kong Independent Short Film and Video Awards. Her works have been screened in many local festivals including the Microwave Media Arts Festival and the Hong Kong International Film Festival. Her many other works were also invited to overseas screenings in Japan, Taiwan, Norway, Spain, Australia, Singapore and United States etc.
‘An "experimental documentary" shouldn't be such a pleasure to watch: a provocative, funny, bristlingly intellectual, discursive, playful, formally challenging, and texturally beautiful film.’
──Shelly Kraicer, Curator of Vancouver International Film Festival
Participating Festivals:
Official Selection, The 31st Hong Kong International Film Festival
Official Selection, The 9th Taipei Film Festival
Official Selection, The 23rdLos Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival
Official Selection, The 26thVancouver International Film Festival
Official Selection, Digital Cinema Seoul 2007
Official Selection, The 14thBarcelona Independent Film Festival
麦海珊
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无浪城市——香港独立影像展
这是两座繁荣城市的窄路相逢。
日常生活把彼此铺平，似乎没有一道巨浪打破愈发相似的风景。但记忆和现实却纠缠和打乱着那些庸常的故事，并提出疑问。平静的水面之下，是生猛鱼虾的自由游曳。波澜不惊处，未必没有拒斥的声音。
这次我们将集中展映一批香港主流电影工业以外的影像，看视觉如何在这过去的十五年间，在700万香港人的现实之内和想象之外，被生产和咀嚼。纪录抑或虚构，穿梭在这些影像内外的，是尝试理解香江，并面对自己的愿望。
这是两座相像到容易唤出乡愁的城市。但这次迎面走来的，却是一个陌生的香港，召唤出陌生的自己。狮子山不再，苏州河不复。2046很近。
《平安米》
7月7日（周六）18：00
导演：张虹
香港Hong Kong / 2003 / 35 mins
粤语对白，中文字幕
故事描述2002年在慈云山球场举行的一次盂兰节派米活动。参加轮米人士约有八千二百人，大部份为长者，当中亦有不少伤残人士。派米活动在早上开始，直至傍晚结束，大部份参加者在零晨已抵达轮候。派平安米活动本为香港的传统习俗，但近年因贫穷的长者数目不断増加，很多长者以此赖以生存。
《唱盘上的单行道》
7月7日（周六）18：40
导演：麦海珊
香港/ 2008 / 彩色及黑白/ 74mins
广东话、国语、英语对白，中文字幕
在历史的小巷中游走，重拾自己与城市的情义。
故事简介：
散文式的实验电影，向主流纪录词组言打个重重的问号，我们走回自己的第一个家（香港作为家），重拾我们本来就应该有的对自己的地方的了解和情感。面对小时候在官塘和美孚走过的地方，还有维多利亚港、天星码头、旺角街头……「移动」与「根着」必须在我们的血肉之中重新重迭的，活过来…
导演的话：
这部电影是一个历史的对照——
没有我们自己（不同的）对现今香港社会的认知和感受，没有我们对自己（最私人的）过去的迷离幻化却又实实在在的反观，和在把自己毫无保留地摊开来看过究竟的过程中抓紧回忆的未来，这个作品，并不成立。
同时，没有对香港和自己的历史的认识，我们也不可能在这个作品中和自己的生命里（比较）自由地穿梭，更谈不上在电影里寻觅必须浮游的主体（相对凝固的香港身份──的问题），和我们，自己（浮游又凝固的主体）。
这不是简化的对大历史提出不满，我只是想用／再挪用──实验电影／纪录片／MV／田野录音的语言去讲故事，去讲好几个我们自己的故事。
导演简介：
麦海珊(Anson)，博客人、电影／录像／声音艺术家，毕业于香港浸会大学传理学院的电影电视系，后于香港大学比较文学系完成哲学硕士，现于Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University 修读艺术博士课程。任教于香港浸会大学视觉艺术院。有超过二十部电影／录像制作，其中多部作品皆于香港独立短片及录像比赛中获奖，及曾被邀请在本地影展放映，包括微波媒体艺术节及香港国际电影节等。此外，作品也多次在外地影展放映，包括日本、台湾、挪威、西班牙、澳洲、新加坡与美国等地。
电影评论
「最有感触是看香港麦海珊的录像片《唱盘上的单行道》，实验式散文拍法，触景生情，有浓郁的香港感怀，成为回归十年一部个人感性之作。」
──石琪，影评人
「从班雅明的《单行道》出发思考城市经验以及香港的意义，影片人物游走于城市，思考在城市的成长经验，也思考城市发展本身对个人的意义...... 透过历史回溯，叙述者重新认知或发现二者本来的连系，但该连系又随着城市自身的发展而朦胧......」
──陈智德，诗人、文化评论人
「独特的节奏，细腻的黑白画面，交织成像格子围巾一样温厚的城市感性。《在唱盘上的单行道》是我城平民生活的光影诗。」
──邓小桦，文化评论人
入选影展及获得奖项包括：
第31届香港国际电影节
第9届台北电影节
第23届洛杉矶亚太平洋区电影节
第26届温哥华国际电影节
2007首尔数码电影节
第14届巴塞隆那独立电影节