Department of Comparative Literature

WE HAVE BOOTS: A FILM SCREENING AND Q&A WITH DIRECTOR EVANS CHAN

Speaker: Evans Chan

We Have Boots is a moving sequel to Raise the Umbrellas, featuring young activists, Agnes Chow, Ray Wong, Alex Chow, Tommy Cheung; artist Kacey Wong; legislator Shiu Ka-chun; and Occupy initiators, Benny Tai and Chan Kin-man. In the post-Umbrella era of disqualification and prosecution, they reflect on their personal paths – from pursuing graduate studies or seeking political asylum overseas, to accepting the political cost of dissent by confronting the prospect of imprisonment. “Affecting… intellectual discussions blending into the melancholic meditative space of post-Occupy Hong Kong… [We Have Boots is a film] about holding on to hope despite despair.” (HKOI, 14/1/19)

About the Director:
Evans Yiu Shing Chan is a New York- and Hong Kong-based critic, librettist and an independent filmmaker of more than a dozen fiction and documentary films, which have been screened around the world. His directorial debut To Liv(e)(1991) was listed by Time Out as one of the 100 Greatest Hong Kong Films. A critical anthology about his work, Postcolonalism, Diaspora, and Alternative Histories: The Cinema of Evans Chan was published by the HKU Press in 2015. We Have Boots is the sequel to his acclaimed documentary Raise the Umbrellas (2016).

Date: Tuesday 23 April 2019
Time: 5:30-8pm
Venue: CPD 3.04, Sir Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU

All are welcome.

For enquiries, please contact Christine Vicera at viceracn@hku.hk