The workshop will be divided into four panels:

1st panel: 9 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. BST (4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. HKT)

Presenters:

Enoch Tam: Hong Kong Political Cinema Since 2014

Kristof Van Den Troost: Criminal Realism: Crime Film and Censorship in 1970s Hong Kong

Gina Marchetti: Oppositional gaze in films by women about the 2014 and 2019 protests

2nd panel: 11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. BST (6 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. HKT)

Presenters:

Jason Coe: Remembering the Losers: The Hopeful Politics of Memory in Raise the Umbrellas

Timmy Chen: Leftwing Modernism and Cold War Cinephilia: Ho Fan’s Intermedial Cinema between Experimentation and Eroticism, 1959-1972

Ting Chun Chun: Cinema of Death: Youth and Necropolitics in Hong Kong

3rd panel: 1 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. BST (8 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. HKT)

Presenters:

Ruby Cheung: Definitions of Hong Kong independent cinemas

Victor Fan: Extratemporality: Surveillance, Governmentality, and Digital Existence

Malte Philipp Kaeding and Heidi Wang-Kaeding: Visualising Hong Kong - Agency in Documentary Filmmaking

4th panel: 3 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. BST (10 p.m. – 11:30 p.m. HKT)

Presenters:

Jessica Yeung and Chris Berry: A Conversation with Tammy Cheung

Hong Kong Independent Cinema Workshop