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The Works：20A Special II: Photography & Independent Films

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Last week, we showed you how different music genres have reflected social and political aspects of Hong Kong over the past two decades. This week, in the second of our specials on the 20th anniversary of the Handover, we look at Hong Kong’s changes over the same period through the lenses of photographers and filmmakers. In a constantly changing Hong Kong where an airport can be built on reclaimed land, century-old buildings can be bulldozed to give way to skyscrapers, or a historical pier can be removed and “saved” in a warehouse, the art of photography becomes an ever more crucial record of our past history.
In the late 1970s to the early 1980s Hong Kong had a number of young filmmakers who became considered part of a “New Wave” of Hong Kong cinema. A group of around 30 young directors, including Ann Hui, Patrick Tam, Yim Ho, Tsui Hark, mostly educated in the West, started working in the television industry and later moved into the film industry. Their films often addressed social and cultural issues. Even before the Handover British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher had described negotiations with China during the drafting of the Joint Declaration as “not always easy” and as having “moments of tension”. It hasn’t always been easy or lacking in tension since the Handover either, and the increasing anxieties and polarisation of our society in recent years is now motivating another generation of Hong Kong filmmakers.
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