Hong Kong independent documentary
Before and after 2000
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21788624 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Shiyu Wei (0000-0002-7191-0824, City University of Hong Kong, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Pages | 1-20 |
| Publication date | 2025-11-17 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Chinese Cinemas (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1750-8061 • E-ISSN: 1750-807X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17508061.2025.2565539 |
| OpenAlex | W4416276871 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 15 |
Hong Kong independent documentaries remain an underexplored subject of scholarly study due to their accessibility—suppressed first by the city’s commercial film culture and recently by the closure of cinemas due to pedantic and censorship reasons. By examining works produced between 1965 and 2025, mainly in four thematic categories, this paper aims to demonstrate that HK indie docs resist any grand narratives in favor of unorthodox, sometimes conflicting, techniques and juxtapositions that capture the social and personal experience of Hong Kong itself
China · Cinema and Media Studies · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics · South Asian Cinema and Culture
Postcolonialism, Diaspora, and Alternative Histories
The making and screening of independent films in the absence of radical Revolution
The ‘We’ in two pairs of documentaries about protests by The 70’s Biweekly syndicate and the 2019 Hong Kong Documentary Workers
Introduction
Hong Kong Culture and Society in the New Millennium
Documenting Taiwan on Film
Twentieth Century Colonialism and China
Space of disobedience
Insurrection and Gramsci's “War of Position”
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |