Looking Through the Cracks: Experimental Cinema in Hong Kong, 1960s–70s
6 films
This programme brings together six experimental films made in Hong Kong during the 1960s and 70s, five of which are featured in Law Kar’s memoir documentary Cinema Strada. Created under British colonial rule, these works articulate the intellectual, cultural, and emotional conditions faced by Chinese filmmakers navigating a fractured society. Through radical forms and non-linear structures, the films register anxieties around identity, displacement, and political silence. More personal works explore repressed sexual desire in young men, functioning as metaphors for broader social constraints. Together, these films reveal experimental cinema as both private expression and historical witness.
Related Project:
Cinema Strada Documentary: General Release Crowdfunding Project | https://labs.giloo.ist/projects/cinema-strada/overview
Curator
An independent creative studio telling stories worth telling 獨立創意工作室，述說值得述說的故事
