Here's Looking at You, Kid!
This video provides a provocative look at the history of Hong Kong as a British colony in Asia, as constructed by the media. It combines TV commercials, British Government footage and films made...
East Is Red
East Is Red is made in one shot. The lighter with young Chairman MAO’s photo imprinted on it, the blurred TV screen, the music ‘East Is Red’, all connote light or brightness. The lighter falls after...
Ninety Five/Two or Three
Six years after the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, FUNG uses a ping-pong to symbolise the fact that Hong Kong is merely being pushed from one side to another, leaving one coloniser only to find...
re-touch (1)
A woman picks up and starts reading the book The Hero in History: A Study in Limitation and Possibility by Sidney HOOK. Her image juxtaposes with found footage of the 1967 riots showing thousands...
Memorandum of the Rock
YUNG superimposes 4-letter idioms on the bright and colourful image of a parade at the Tiananmen Square. The idioms dissolve one after another and become more and more irrelevant and even vulgar....
Out of Position
YUAN is highly adept at combining symbolic metaphors with technological media. His works vividly illustrate contemporary human conditions. Despite its original emphasis on the dialectical dialogue...
How Was History Wounded
Three commentators sit in a news studio in front of a TV discussing the Tiananmen Square massacre as reported by local and foreign media. This film aims to examine the politics of image and the image...