Flowing Stories 河上變村 + The Dispute 原來我是不速客 | Southampton | Waving Kites

Venue: Avenue Campus, LTB, University of Southampton

'Ho Chung Tetralogy' includes the interactive web piece All About My Ho Chung, the short film The Life and Times of Ho Chung Village, the feature film Big Blue Lake, and the director’s first feature-length documentary Flowing Stories. Through depicting the recurrent reunions and partings of the villagers and the intimate details of their lives, the film examines issues about urban and rural development. Filmed on locations in Hong Kong and in various cities in France and UK, Flowing Stories is an ode to village life and a journey in search of Hong Kongers’ collective roots. Tsang’s camera records the beautiful scenery and time-honored customs of the local village, as well as a once-a-decade village festival, which serves as a continuation of a tradition passed down through generations and a testament of family bonding. Today, Hong Kong citizens are confused about the future, the director hopes to review the village’s development in order to search for the meaning of home and diaspora through this meaningful local documentary.

曾翠珊繼《蠔涌》（網絡互動作品）、《河上風光》（短片）和《大藍湖》（長片）後的「蠔涌四部曲」，精心經營的首齣紀錄片製作。從蠔涌村民的聚散離合、生活點滴，看城鄉經濟的發展。導演走訪英、法等國家多個城市，用鏡頭捕捉美景和風俗，探討漂流他鄉的村民對鄉土的感情，尋回那遺忘失落的根。十年一度的太平清醮，除了是代代相傳的禮節儀式，更是家庭團聚及遊子思鄉情的見證。在今日香港人面對不明前景，思考何去何從之際，導演希望藉著作品，從離鄉別井的經歷去探索家的定義，並從社群流徙的故事去反思過去和展望村落的未來發展。這是一部極具誠意及啟發性的本地紀錄片製作。

The Dispute 原來我是不速客

Dir. Fredie CHAN Ho-lun 陳浩倫, 2022, 34m, Documentary

Shortly after moving from Hong Kong to Edinburgh and settling into his student flat, filmmaker Fredie Chan discovers a clash among locals and overseas students over the massive housing shortage in Edinburgh. Developers are converting empty lots and unused old buildings into new housing stocks for international students rather than the locals. Through an empathetic and personal documentary lens, Chan befriends 91-year-old Harry, a long-time resident and community councillor, and follows a group of grassroots housing advocates in order to understand the clash and today’s global housing crisis.

導演留學蘇格蘭愛丁堡期間遇上社區爭議。當地居民曾要求，在他入住的學生宿舍原址建成公屋，但政府因應大學城發展而擱置了計劃，令居民感到不公，並視留學生為不速之客。議題熟口熟面，令人聯想到香港長久以來的住屋危機：外來人口與原生居民的房屋爭議，及房屋政策不公義而引發的民間抗爭，原來大家都是命運共同體。紀錄片聚焦當地的草根住房倡導者，試圖了解衝突的源起和當今的全球住屋危機。導演在異地生活，從離散的身份中看連結，一窺香港以外的土地問題。

This event is part of Waving Kites: Hong Kong Diasporic Cinema UK Tour, organised by the Chinese Independent Film Archive at Newcastle University, in partnership with the Department of Film Studies at University of Southampton.

Waving Kites is curated by CIFA, with the support of the BFI Screen Heritage Fund, awarding National Lottery funding.

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