In its aim to support the art of independent Hong Kong cinema and show it to audiences the Hong Kong Arts Centre in the years of its 20th anniversary again has designed a program promoting visions and voices of this particular kind of cinema.
As one of its first entries the program features “Our Youth in Taiwan”, a documentary directed by Fu Yue, about youth in Taiwan,and their drive towards freedom, their will to make their dreams come true and how their plan became a part of Taiwanese history.
“Independently Yours x Elemental Dynamite” is a section dealing with the art of animation, its history, use of technology and its socio-cultural context. Featuring a retrospective of the works of director Nobuhiro Aihara as well as two other program presenting the range and relevance of animation audiences will surely find many items of interest.
“Commercials cross over – A world without borders” offers many individual programs regarding the subject of advertisements, their design and the craft behind them. Besides showing the positive aspects of a product the individual ads from Asia as well as all over the world show a large variety of ideas and styles.
