Y.H.A. 30+ Young Hong Kong Artist Dialogue
Artist Documentary | 95 mins | 2010 |
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Hong Kong Asian Independent Film Festival 2010
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4th Tapei Fringe Festival 2010
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Art Video Exchange at Atopia, Oslo, Norway
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“My Favorite Hong Kong” My Small Project Galleri, Tromso, Norway
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Art Video Exchange Forum, Bergen, Norway
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EAST ASIAN VIDEO WINDOW Series, Pori Art Museum, Finland
This film has documented 9 interviews with local young artists of approximately the same age and same generation as I am, the Post-70, one might say using the fashioned term. After finishing tertiary education, they were immediately challenged with the recurrent economy downturn and a society too rigid and suffocating for alternatives. Sustaining their arts pursuit under such circumstances, and take it as a career is simply suicidal. While we keep our fingers crossed for these hearty young people, their reasons and journey to becoming artists are ant-biting our curiosity. Previous art-related experiences, upbringings, studies, works or life-turning incidents may be the explanations, but what is it they most concern about after all? Is Hong Kong a feasible place for their arts development?