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HO YUK(LET'S LOVE HONG KONG)AND URBAN UNIVERSE IN A CONTEXT THAT POINTS TOWARDS THE 21ST CENTURY" International Critics' Jury, Figueira da Foz Film Festival |
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"Made-in-China Chan" (in Chinese: Chan Kwok Chan) works as a stripper in cyberspace but she often has headaches. Her only solace is from her mother who is clueless about what her daughter does for a living nor what she is thinking. Nicole has money and power but she depends on "Made-in-China" to play with virtually at night in order to get some sleep. Zero does not have anything but she knows what she wants and is determined to get it. Three women's lives quietly intersect in a futuristic yet realistic Hong Kong.
"Sassy, witty, with an arresting mixture of playful perversion and melancholia, Ho Yuk - Let’s Love Hong Kong is an unconventional valentine to a city that keeps losing and reinventing itself." - Bérénice Reynaud, film critic "The characters and the film itself exude a haunting presence in Hong Kong that is at once charming, funny, poignant, sad, and exciting. Both Ho Yuk - Let’s Love Hong Kong and its characters demand to be cherished." - Chris Berry, Associate Professor of Film Studies, University of California, Berkeley "The social
sketch is told in a passionate, colourful style. A metropolis, where loneliness
gnaws at souls, is the stage for a search after security and a home. Little
hopeful signs in the 21st century, where cybersex and prostitution
replace love and affection. The film is a shocking,
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Director, Writer, Producer: Yau Ching
Hung-yut Chen, Cam Kam
Editor:
Chen Po-wen
Production
Designer: Gill Wong
Music Composer:
Kung Chi Shing
Sound Editor:
Robert Porter
Assistant
Director: Kit Hung, May Fung, Emu
Special
Effects: Kit Hung, Kuen Chung,
Nacka Graphic
Studio (Sweden)
CAST
Wong Chung
Ching as Chan Kwok Chan
Erica Lam
as Zero
Colette
Koo as Nicole
Maria Cordero
as Mama
Wella Cheung
as Sex Worker
Fung Manyee
as Real Estate Agent
Leung Mantao
as Fengshui Master
Director Yau Ching (right)
and Actress Wong Chung Ching
on location
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DIRECTOR'S BIOGRAPHY
YAU CHING was born in Hong Kong in 1966, received her BA in Comparative Literature and Philosophy in Hong Kong, MA in Media Studies in New York and PhD in Media Arts in London. A graduate of the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York and an award-winning filmmaker and writer, she is currently living and working in Hong Kong. Her short films and videos have been awarded at festivals worldwide including Image Forum in Japan, Ann Arbor Film Festival and Cindy Film Competition in the US, German Video Art Prize, Brno 16 Film Festival in the Czech Republic and Hong Kong Independent Film and Video Awards. Her works have been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Guggenheim Museum, New York Public Library, London Film Festival, Yamagata Film Festival, Hong Kong International Film Festival, Flaherty International Film Seminars, and the Worldwide Video Festival, among others. Yau Ching currently teaches media production at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. "Ho Yuk - Let's Love Hong Kong" is her feature film debut. FILMOGRAPHY Is There
Anything Specific You Want Me To tell You About? (90)
More Information on these works: BOOKS BY
YAU CHING
Building A New Stove (96) Stripping Trousers and Skirts (99) The Impossible
Home (01)
Ho Yuk (Script
and Critical Essays) (02)
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