Hong Kong used to be termed the “borrowed place living on borrowed time” because of its political history. Since 1997, its label became “a returned place with a fixed borrowed time of 50 years”. This absurd fate, however, has made Hong Kong even more prominent on the world map. Despite skeptical prophecies of its future and destiny, the seemingly indifferent populace of this borrowed place continues to thrive and survive. This kind of striving energy is unique while such survival skills are amazingly shocking. DECADE is a project that intends to comprehend such energy by revitalising archival moving images from the past century, and to trigger new interpretations of this metropolis that shall bring along new thoughts and hopes to the next generation who shall continue to strive and survive on. DECADE is also a creative digital project that experiments with new music to go along with the moving images, marrying 10 chapters of historical footage with 10 new creative music pieces. These 10 audio-visual pieces will then be placed on the virtual highway to be appreciated in an interactive mode by an international audience. Particular efforts were made to source the most representative images of each DECADE , to cover not only the city texture and landscapes, but also the overall sentiment of the populace at their respective time and space.
． TURN OF THE CENTURY – Shadow Kim (Vocal)
． COLONIAL IMPRESSION – Chin King (Gu Zheng)
． GATEWAY TO CHINA – Alain Chiu (Piano)
． WARTIME TURMOILS – Shane Aspegren (Percussion)
． POST-WAR LANDSCAPES – Leung Yan Chiu (Sheng)
． WORK HARD & PLAY HARD – Dennis Wong aka Sin:Ned (Chapman Stick)
． FLY HIGH & ASPIRE – Sascia Pellegrini (Percussion)
． BOOM & DRAIN – Kung Chi-shing (Electric Viola)
． TENSIONS & PASSIONS – Wilmer Chan (Double Bass)
． NETWORKED METROPOLIS – Choi Sai-ho (Electronics)

4/1*

(Sat)

2:30pm

Cinema, Hong Kong Film Archive

18/1**

(Sat)

7:30pm

Cinema, Hong Kong Film Archive

* Post-screening talk with Bobo Lee, Conor Roche, Winnie Fu
** Post-screening talk with Steve Hui, Winnie Fu
December 14 and 15 at the
Freespace Fest 2013.
Digital Initiative by West Kowloon Cultural District Authority,
Co-curated by Hong Kong Film Archive and Fieldwork Productions
Co-produced by West Kowloon Cultural District Authority and Fieldwork Productions