The Works：Japanese film director Kiyoshi Kurosawa, an exhibition about migrant workers called "After

The 15-day Hong Kong International Film Festival, which ended two weeks ago, brought in over 240 movies from 66 countries and regions. Acclaimed directors and actors from around the world came to present their films. Among them was Japanese director, screenwriter, film critic and professor. Kiyoshi Kurosawa, whose latest film “Creepy” closed the festival We caught up with him while he was here and asked him about his work in the Japanese horror genre for which he is best known.
There are an estimated 320,000 domestic workers working in Hong Kong, most from the Philippines or Indonesia, but while they may be the largest minority group in the city, their stories are often overlooked. Last year, we featured Xyza Cruz Bacani who joined her mother in Hong Kong to become a domestic worker, but whose talent with the camera led her on a new path as a street photographer. But of course there’s certainly a lot more than one creatively talented person in the domestic worker community. On show at Parasite till the end of May, “Afterwork” is a major exhibition that explores issues of class, race, labour and migration in Hong Kong through the art space’s Migrant Domestic Workers Project.
The work of artist Shahzia Sikander, whether her small drawings, large scale installations, mural painting or videos, is rooted in the tradition of Indian and Persian miniature painting. Currently showing at the Asia Society and in a satellite exhibition at Maritime Museum, “Apparatus of Power” explores Hong Kong’s colonial history and current situation. Like Shahzia Sikander, the Chinese painter and choreographer Shen Wei also came to Hong Kong last month during Art Basel.
His first Hong Kong solo exhibition at the Asia Society centre “Dance Strokes” ended on April 4th.