Screening + Director’s Q&A
Friday, 11 March 2022, 18:30–21:00 PST
Fear(less) and Dear 誠惶 (不) 誠恐，親愛的 (2020)
Dir. Anson Hoi Shan Mak
Asian Centre Auditorium, UBC
1871 West Mall, Vancouver
Free and open to all
106 mins. | Cantonese with English subtitles
Film screening will be followed by a (remote) Q&A session with Director Anson Mak. Please note that mask and vaccination proof are required to attend this in-person event.
A City Reassembled event
Registration required
Hong Kong has been going through one of the toughest periods in its history as a result of social turbulence and the COVID-19 pandemic. Director and visual artist Anson Mak invites three local artists who are also parents—performing artist and district councilor Clara Cheung, political comic artist Justin Wong, and writer Cheung Yuen-Man—to genuinely share their stories regarding the notion of fear. How do young parents feel? What do they think about fear, their kids, and the future? Their artworks also powerfully respond to political unrest and personal innermost emotions, as this film in itself.
Watch the trailer here.
★ 2020 Busan International Film Festival
★ 2020 Hong Kong Asian Film Festival
★ 2021 Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival
Anson Hoi Shan MAK is a researcher-artist who specializes in moving image and sound. She is especially interested in experimental ethnography. Her works have been shown in many international film festivals and exhibitions, including the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, the Golden Horse Film Festival, and the Hong Kong International Film Festival. Dr. Mak is also an associate professor in the Academy of Visual Arts at the Hong Kong Baptist University.
誠惶 (不) 誠恐，親愛的
麥海珊 | 2020 | 香港 | 廣東話 | 英文字幕
恐懼是概念，還是實在的經驗？從社會動盪至疫症陰霾，香港經歷著極其艱難的時刻。年輕父母有何感受？他們如何面對恐懼、孩子和未來？三位藝術家——區議員兼表演藝術家張嘉莉、政治漫畫家黃照達及作家張婉雯，真誠地分享自身故事和為人父母的經驗，他們的作品也有力地回應了社會的不安，以至最內在個人情感。
恐懼與無懼，實不只是有與無，而是心的探索，也是調心的力量。在過程中定必反映外境，但外境不是重點，透過電影想了解的，是人內在的狀態。這作品探索紀錄與實驗影像、小說、舞踏、音樂與現場聲境的融合，嘗試把內在感覺與思考、回憶與想像、個人與社會、私密與公共的經驗並置，讓我們找到相互重疊的位置，和自己的內心打個照面。
★ 2020 釜山國際影展
★ 2020 香港亞洲電影節
★ 2021 日本山形國際紀錄片節
麥海珊，電影及錄像藝術家，創作領域涵蓋單頻道電影及錄像、攝影、聲音藝術及網路藝術，並鑽研實驗民族誌錄像及超八電影。其電影及錄像作品曾參展多個電影節，包括阿姆斯特丹國際紀錄片影展、釜山影展、金馬影展、香港國際電影節等。
This screening+conversation is organized by the UBC Hong Kong Studies Initiative and co-sponsored by: Department of Asian Studies, Department of History, Centre for Chinese Research, Centre for Migration Studies, Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies, Public Humanities Hub, and the Interdisciplinary Histories Research Cluster.
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