June 30, 1997 (a.k.a celebrate what?)
Yau Ching / 1997 / 8min / Cantonese / Chinese Subtitles
Invited to screen at Donnell Media Center Auditorium, New York Public Library, among others
A music video shot entirely in public spaces during the handover evening in Hong Kong. June 30, 1997, Hong Kong. Tourists flocked to expensive gourmet parties with a harbor view, or got drunk on the streets. Mainstream media coverage described how happy the local Hong Kong people were about being taken over. I was invited to a gathering at Hong Kong Arts Centre to watch television and the fireworks together. It turned out to be a gathering of local artists singing songs and telling stories, against a room decorated in words of bright red: ‘Reunification in 1997: I am very happy.’ Later I went to the Central part of town to find thousands of people rallying in Victoria Square. At midnight they released multi-color balloons, tied a huge yellow ribbon around the Legislative Council, where the newly elected Legislative Council was being disbanded. The police blocked the area around the Council soon afterwards.
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