A Molotov cocktail disguised as a film reel — 15 minutes that could get you arrested in 1978.
Letter to the Young Intellectuals of Hong Kong is a 35mm film that utilised and appropriates footage from a documentary Henry Moore exhibition in Hong Kong, through over-dubbing, painting directly onto the film and other gestures, Mok turns the material into an incendiary address to Hong Kong's youth. Intercut with newly filmed material creates, the film also functions as a personal diary of Mok's political activity throughout the 1970s.
Direction
Mok vandalizes his own medium — film as direct action.
Editing
Jarring cuts between Moore's sculptures and Hong Kong's unease.
Director
Mok Chiu-Yu
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during Hong Kong's 1970s leftist resurgence, when activists challenged British colonial rule through culture, not just protests.
Henry Moore's sculptures — symbols of Western high culture — become targets of Mok's vandalism, turning colonial prestige into raw material for anti-colonial fury.
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