Category: Hong Kong
Hong Kong, a Tragedy: From Pearl of the Orient to a City that Dare Not Speak Its Name
Hong Kong descends from Pearl of the Orient to a city that dare not speak its name as filmmaker Quentin Lee watches with sadness.
Snake Eaters
“On Snake Eaters” By Gina Marchetti Jericho Li, an MA Communications student at Baptist University, escorts us through Hong Kong’s Sham Shui Po in this…
Hong Kong Mon Amour (or the Twice Cooked Immigrant)
The most heartbreaking moment in my life was when I was eleven my parents came home in Hong Kong and said that we had to…
Interview with Love Stalk’s Joe Fiorello
CHOPSO interviews director Joe Fiorello who made the Hong Kong feature Love Stalk, now streaming on CHOPSO. C: How did you come to filmmaking and…
Fan Ho 1931-2016
A few years ago, I discovered some photographs taken in the streets of Hong Kong during the fifties and sixties. Most of these photos depict…
Scarlet Johansson Robot Debuts in Hong Kong
Perhaps inspired by Spike Jonze’s 2013 film Her, a Hong Kong man spent $50,000 of his own money and built a lifelike robot that has an uncanny resemblance…
Ten Years Failed to Imagine Hong Kong
Hearing about all the controversy of the Hong Kong feature Ten Years that has promised to ban all the participating filmmakers from making commercial movies…
Scud’s Utopians
Scud is the pseudonym of a Hong Kong filmmaker who has made a string of six awful gay features with an abundance of male nudity….
On Police & Protestor Violence in Hong Kong
Last night and in the early hours of this morning, riots and police confrontation took place in the Mong Kok district of Hong Kong. The…
Hong Kong Student Stands Up against American Racist
International student Enoch Kan from Hong Kong was traveling on a U.S. train and bumped into an ex-marine soldier who hurled racist comments at him,…
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