Hong Kong students reflect on the state of their city through film. In the last few years social unrest and public disorder have engulfed the city of Hong Kong, much of the news cropping up in Britain alluding to a notion that the entirety of the region is fervently anti-China. This allusion, however, is false.Continue reading “Generational disparities & polarised politics: Hong Kong student films”
Author Archives: Alexei Hampson
From painter to artist: “China’s van Goghs” challenges the Western perception of ‘Made in China’
Imagine you are standing in a dingy souvenir shop in Amsterdam, browsing the handmade oil painting replicas of van Gogh’s masterpieces. Out of curiosity you ask the store employee where they are made, to which they reply gingerly, “in China”. The omnipresent tag ‘made in China’ springs to mind, bearing connotations of cheap labour andContinue reading “From painter to artist: “China’s van Goghs” challenges the Western perception of ‘Made in China’”
Film Dialectic 