Anatomy of the ordinary: new perspectives in Hong Kong independent cinema
Sebastian Veg, Anatomy of the ordinary: new perspectives in Hong Kong independent cinema, Journal of Chinese Cinemas 2013. DOI: 10.1080/17508061.2013.875731
Hong Kong cinema is generally considered to be in the midst of a crisis brought about by the growing weight of the Chinese market and a loss of cultural identity due to the territory’s growing assimilation into the mainland. However, in recent years a group of independent directors, mostly born in the 1970s and 1980s, have sought to redefine the issue of Hong Kong identity while side-stepping both knee-jerk opposition to China and colonial nostalgia. This article proposes a broad survey of independent films made in the past few years in Hong Kong. Highlighting several recurrent themes – working-class lives, cross-border connections, critical reflections on both colonial history and the new connections with China – it suggests that these films lay out an aesthetics of the ordinary to define Hong Kong’s distinctiveness. Resisting the spectacular aesthetics of genre films and the hyperbole of the ‘Hong Kong success story’, they probe Hong Kong’s everyday experience from the angle of the quotidian and the ordinary.
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