This group ticket includes:
- Film ticket for Blue Island 憂鬱之島@SODA, Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) (25/3/2023 Saturday 11:30)
- Film ticket for The Battle of Orgreave 歐格里夫抗爭事件@SODA, Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) (25/3/2023 14:00)
- Ticket for Event Blue Island X The Battle of Orgreave Screen Talk 'Art as a Dissident Form : Re-invention of Living memory, history & identity' @SODA, Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) (25/3/2023 15:00)
Parallel Screenings: “Resistance, Reenacted in HK & UK” in Manchester
Date/Time:
25 March, 2023 (Sat) 11:30-16:00
Program rundown:
11:30-13:15: Blue Island
13:15-14:00: Lunch Break
14:00-15:00: The Battle of Orgreave
15:00-16:00: Panel Discussion
Venue: G12 Cinema, School of Digital Arts (SODA), Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester M15 6ED
Language: English, Cantonese and British sign language interpretation
Co-organised by
Hong Kong Film Festival, UK
The School of East Asian Studies, University of Sheffield
The Manchester Metropolitan University
Screenings:
-Blue Island 憂鬱之島 (2022), 97 mins (Director Chan Tze Woon, HK)
-The Battle of Orgreave 歐格里夫抗爭事件 (2001), 60 mins (Director Jeremy Deller, UK)
Post-screening Panel discussion:
Reenactment is often used in documentaries to help retell the past more vividly. performative “act” appears to be a powerful medium to evoke critical reflection on historical events, because the re-experience can help transform the performers’ and the viewers’ understandings about different details of the events. Both films in this parallel-screening programs involve reenactment to reveal the resistance history in Hong Kong and the UK. While Blue Island weaves the stories of three different generations of Hongkongers who have participated in social movements to fight for values important to them, The Battle of Orgreave mainly captures one important confrontation during 1984’s Miners' Strike in South Yorkshire.
The current programme invites the film director(s), film scholars and artists to have a post-screening panel discussion with audience members, to compare the different styles of applying the reenactment technique in documentaries, and also to think about how this art form help with our critical reflection on the civil resistance history in Hong Kong and the UK.
事件重演的表達手法，在「紀錄片」製作中時會出現，這有助作品更形活現。重「演」有助於以批判角度重塑歷史，演員的表達、觀眾的代入，都不斷強化被重演事件的各項細節。這兩齣分別來自香港及英國的紀錄片，都呈現其一 / 多段抗爭歷史，當中同時包含「重演」元素：來自香港的《憂鬱之島》講述三代香港人參與社會運動，爭取其當時認為重要的價值；來自英國的The Battle of Orgreave，集中講述1984年南約克郡的礦工抗爭事件。
是次「雙」電影欣賞，邀請到電影導演、電影學者及藝術家，與參與觀眾進行映後討論，比較兩齣紀錄片的拍攝手法、討論「事件重演」式手法如何有助電影去批判這兩段不同時空的抗爭歷史。
Moderator:
Dr Wayne Wong (Film Scholar, Lecturer in East Asian Studies)
Panellists:
Chan Tze Woon (Director of Blue Island)
Dr. Andy Willis (Film Scholar, Professor of Film Studies at University of Salford)
JJ Chan (Artist and Filmmaker, Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at Kingston University London)
Wayne Wong’s bio:
Wayne Wong is a Lecturer in East Asian Studies in The University of Sheffield. He holds a joint PhD in Film Studies and Comparative Literature from King’s College London and the University of Hong Kong and has published in Asian Cinema, Global Media and China, and Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art. He is currently working with artists, curators, and filmmakers in the UK on Hong Kong-UK Diaspora.
Chan Tze Woon’s bio:
Chan Tze Woon is a Hong Kong-based director and writer. Born 1987 and raised in this city, his debut feature-length documentary Yellowing (2016) examined the Umbrella Movement, a large-scale civil occupation in 2014, exploring Hong Kong's fraught relationship with mainland China. Blue Island is Chan's second feature-length film.
香港獨立電影導演及編劇，畢業於浸會大學電影學院電影電視及數碼媒體（製作）碩士。
他的首部紀錄長片《亂世備忘》（ 2016 ）記錄雨傘運動，奪得山形國際紀錄片影展的「小川紳介獎」，亦入圍金馬獎最佳紀錄片、2020年鹿特丹國際影展等。
過去創作一直嘗試模糊記錄劇情的界線，短片作品《香港人不知道的》（ 2013 ）、《作為雨水：表象及意志》（ 2014 ）亦以偽紀錄片方式切入香港的政治景況。《憂鬱之島》維他第二部長片作品。
Andy Willis’s bio:
Andy Willis is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Salford. His most recent publications include: the forthcoming Women in East Asian Cinemas (co-edited with Felicia Chan and Fraser Elliott); DVD, Blu-ray and Beyond: Navigating Formats and Platforms within Media Consumption (2017, co-edited with Jonathan Wroot); Cult Media: Re-packaged, Re-released and Restored (2017, co-editor with Jonathan Wroot); Chinese Cinemas: International Perspectives (2016, co-edited with Felicia Chan); East Asian Film Stars (2014, co-editor with Wing Fai Leung). He is also currently a Senior Visiting Curator for Film at HOME Manchester, where he has curated and programmed a wide variety of film seasons and events.
JJ Chan’s bio:
JJ Chan is an artist living and working in London. They were born in South Yorkshire to migrant parents from Hong Kong. Working across and amidst sculpture, moving image, and writing, their work draws from lived experience and stories stolen from eavesdropped conversations, to explore the edges of our everyday realities and the ways in which we construct our identities. Through storytelling and world-building, their work (re)searches for an alternative space beyond aggressively progressive capitalist time, seeking new worlds from the ashes of the present. Chan’s artworks are presented across a variety of platforms which include galleries, film festivals, nightclubs, house parties, and academic publications. They are currently Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at Kingston University London.