Director Shu Kei travelled to Venice, Canada, London and Hong Kong, collecting accounts of the Tiananmen impact. Among his interviewees are: award-winning Taiwanese filmmaker Hou Hsiao-hsien; Hong Kong director Alfred Cheung, a witness to the massacre; actress Deanne Ip, whose national consciousness is fired by the event; as well as his own brothers, one who soon migrates from Hong Kong, and the other, already an Australian emigre. Their personal testimonies are pieced together into a mural of the Chinese people united in their horror and outrage.
Direction
Shu Kei weaves family into global tragedy.
Editing
Four cities, one wound—seamless mosaic construction.
Director
Shu Kei
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made just one year after June 4, when Hong Kong's future deadline loomed and emigration surged.
Deanie Ip's interview was reportedly shot in a single unbroken take—no cut could contain her.
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