Is There Anything Specific You Want Me To Tell You About?

Is There Anything Specific You Want Me To Tell You About?

Yau Ching / 1991 / 12min / English / Chinese Subtitles

Awarded Honorable Mention, Ann Arbor Film Festival; Cindy Film Bronze Award; Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival; Best Original Conception, New School Invitational Film Show

Loosely structured as a letter home, a “writer” explicates the longings, nostalgia and regrets that exile, even voluntary exile, produces. B. Ruby Rich, writing in The Village Voice, states, “A subtle answer to travelogue mentalities… turns the tables on the tourists in their native land and reflects on the strangeness of the self, the other, and even its own attempt to communicate between cultures.”

References

Lucretia Knapp, “Something Borrowed, Something Blue,” essay translated into Chinese and published in the exhibition catalog for “The Future in Past Tense–A Retrospective of Yau Ching’s Film and Video Art,” Guangdong Times Museum, China, 2013-2014.

Hong Kong Women Filmmakers Database

Yau Ching, “Many and Two of (a) Kin(d): An Imaginary Dialogue with Hong Kong Independent Filmmaker Yau Ching.” Chinese History and Society (Berliner China-Hefte) Issue 40 (Aug): 127-137, 2012, Berlin: Freie Universität

invited to participate in the exhibition AFTERIMAGE: NEW MEDIA ART IN CHINA, HONG KONG AND TAIWAN | 残像 中 ‧港 ‧台新媒体艺术27 MARCH — 23 JUNE 2023, The University of Melbourne, Australia.

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