Uneasy Transition: The City Documented in 'Hong Kong Moments' and 'Many Undulating Things'

The mass demonstrations that seized Hong Kong in 2019 thrust the city to the forefront of global attention, emphasising the fraught nature of its status as one-time European outpost and future integrated component of China. Speaking to Hong Kong Moments producer Ricky Choy and Many Undulating Things co-director Bo Wang, Anthony Carew explores how these two new documentaries scrutinise the former colony's present and past, respectively examining its current political fault lines and the history embedded in its architecture and public spaces.

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Zhou Bing, Pan Lu, democracy, elections, police, politics, Frederick Wiseman, People's Republic of China, Kowloon, Karl Marx, Chungking Express, Chungking Mansions, Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing, imperialism, colonialism, Francis Bacon, Joseph Banks