In September 2014, a pro-democracy movement, Umbrella Movement, broke out in Hong Kong, asking for western democracy from Communist China. This film captures different kinds of people involved in this revolution that was deemed impossible to succeed. They will be remembered in history as such. My mission was to record this most significant event that’d ever happened in Hong Kong for the last 160 years. From the footages gathered during the movement, what I saw was a kind of romance, one that’s never appeared in the city where only utilitarianism was celebrated. Though beautifully felt, this romance didn’t last long. In this video poem, I want those people to be remembered like the way they were.
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2016
France
Official Selection, 39th Outdoor Short Film Festival of
Grenoble
2016
Japan
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Award, Tokyo Video Festival
Born in Hong Kong in 1986, Jeff Kwok obtained his bachelor degree
from English Department of The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Then he
furthered his studies in Beijing Film Academy from where he graduated with a
master degree in Directing Department. For years Jeff has directed a great number
of fictional and documentary shorts. His works have been screened and awarded
in many international film festivals, such as Venice Your Film Festival,
International Film Festival of Cinematic Arts (Los Angeles) and Tokyo Video
Festival for the People. In 2016, he co-directed an internet feature film
called Realm of the Immortals.
Filmography 2016Realm of the Immortals
2016MOKSHA
2012 One Night in the Capital City
2012 Coffee, Cigarettes and Chinese Massage
Remarks shared after Festival
“I have been an independent filmmaker since my
graduation in 2012. It has been a long road and will be my career for life. As a creator, it is not easy from the beginning to
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“I have been an independent filmmaker since my
graduation in 2012. It has been a long road and will be my career for life. As a creator, it is not easy from the beginning to
the end. To find an inspiring topic, to single out the subject, to make a film out of it; no steps are easy. Yet the hardest part
is always to get your voice heard, which is to bring your film to more and more
audience if possible. I do not have the support from famous producers or studios so
that I can make a film without having to worry
about distributing it. So I must work alone and try to make it public myself.
The only thing I can do is to apply for film
festivals around the world on my own expense. But without any financial backup,
I do need help during such process. I am delighted I could receive help from NAE so that I
could attend to the festival to share my work with the world. I hope NAE will keep helping people like me
all the way down.”
—Shared by Jeff Kwok, director of MOKSHA, after
attending the 39th Outdoor Short Film Festival of Grenoble in France, under the
sponsorship of NAE.
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