Letter to the Young Intellectuals of Hong Kong
1978・Hong Kong・15 minutes
Shot in 35 mm Cinemascope in 1978, Letter to the Young Intellectuals of Hong Kong is Mok Chiu-yu and Li Ching’s provocatively personal “open letter” to a generation whose earlier utopian fervour was giving way to the economic boom and cultural realignment of late-1970s Hong Kong. Co-founder of the radical 70s Bi-weekly magazine, Mok riffs on revolutionary possibility with playful sarcasm and collage—intercutting bohemian hangouts, painted film stock, over-dubbed voices, archival fragments and Henry Moore exhibition outtakes—to ask: if the movement is dying, what’s left for the social critic? The result is a buoyant critique of capitalist complacency and ideological drift, at once diaristic and incendiary, capturing a moment when political hope sounded like a question rather than a slogan.
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莫昭如
Mok Chiu-yu