Imagining the future in post-millennial Hong Kong cinema: Visualizing the local, the national and the global in cultural imaginaries

IF 0.4 3区 艺术学 0 FILM, RADIO, TELEVISION
Helena Wu
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Abstract Decolonization in the context of Hong Kong involves a ‘complex series of cultural-political struggles to re-imagine the future for the next 30 years and beyond,’ according to Chan’s “Delay No More: Struggles to Re-Imagine Hong Kong” (2015). In this regard, the bottom-up decolonization to be achieved by the local subjects and the projection of the future extended from cultural imaginaries are reciprocally connected. Building on this, the current study illustrates how locally produced images about the future constellate the local, the national and the global in the transforming post-handover setting of Hong Kong. With an eye to Golden Chicken II (Samson Chiu, 2003), Ten Years (omnibus, 2015) and She Remembers, He Forgets (Adam Wong, 2015), this study examines how Hong Kong’s future is respectively envisioned after the 2003 SARS outbreak and the 2014 Umbrella Movement, as these films by traversing the mainstream and the non-mainstream circuits coincide on the ambivalent feeling towards the future, wherever it is located, and the general concern towards those disappeared/disappearing values, identities and lifestyle that have long been taken for granted as ‘Hong Kong’. From the alternating utopian and dystopian projections of Hong Kong’s future, this study discerns the experimental attempts to self-decolonization by trial and error and unfolds the preferred local-national-global relations especially in the post-Umbrella Movement era before the eruption of the 2019 Anti-Extradition Bill Protests.
后千禧年香港电影的未来想象:在文化想象中视觉化本地、国家和全球
摘要香港背景下的非殖民化涉及一系列复杂的文化政治斗争,以重新设想未来30年的未来 根据陈的《不再拖延:重塑香港的斗争》(2015)。在这方面,由当地主体实现的自下而上的非殖民化与从文化想象中延伸出来的对未来的预测是相互联系的。在此基础上,当前的研究说明了在香港移交后的转型环境中,本地制作的关于未来的图像如何将本地、全国和全球凝聚在一起。本研究着眼于《金鸡II》(Samson Chiu,2003)、《十年》(omnibus,2015)和《她记得,他忘记了》(She Remembers,He Forgets,Adam Wong,2015),研究了香港在2003年SARS爆发和2014年雨伞运动后的未来,无论它位于何处,以及人们对长期以来被视为“香港”的消失/消失的价值观、身份和生活方式的普遍关注。从对香港未来的乌托邦和反乌托邦交替预测中,本研究通过试错发现了自我生态殖民化的实验尝试,并揭示了首选的地方-国家-全球关系,尤其是在2019年反萃取法案抗议爆发前的后雨伞运动时代。
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Journal of Chinese Cinemas
Journal of Chinese Cinemas FILM, RADIO, TELEVISION-
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