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(2022), (2022) by Janfer Chung Single channel video What is the function of our memories when history is always written and rewritten by those in power? It didn’t take me long to realize that we rewrite our memories, just like how history is (re)written. Then, reading, rereading, writing, rewriting, forgetting, and remembering becomes directly related to the question of ownership and property. This film is set in the context of and is informed by the political situation in Hong Kong–the city of migration, diaspora, and flow. In the companionship of memories, I strolled around Edinburgh and London, the two cities filled with new Diaspora Hong Kongers. I live with them, share meals, and talk about our home that has recently become inaccessible. While still in search of our positions in the new home, we ask ourselves, could the alternative, seemingly minor and personal, narrative and stories be written outside of Hong Kong? How could these stories be preserved and shared with a future generation? is a reader-writer from Hong Kong, with a background in art history and sociology. Because of her fascination in words and languages, she leads her research through literature. In her recent work, she drills and excavates personal memories to comprehend and reinterpret them with literature to expand her and her readers’ immediate realities.
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