My director friend Adeline C. Kayee, is now working on a new project
about life in Hong Kong named “A Very Selfish Documentary”, which will be
basically aboutselfish social
behaviours in Hong Kong. It’s a 100% indie project (she’s the producer,
director, cameraman, editor etc...) and she’s looking for people who want to be
in it. The shooting schedules are mid-July (started already) to August 2009 and
the interviewees can speak in any language (The final film will be subtitled in
English).
Adeline C. Kayee (right) in 2008, shooting "La Carava des 10 Mots - Hong Kong"
Here is her presentation of “A Very Selfish Documentary”:
“We live in a very compact city. Conflicts are what we experience every
day. We constantly suffer from or witness certain selfish behaviours in this
city. The most common ones could be: the person who enters a building before
you lets the door bang at your face, people who "stand by" their
finger on the "close door" button long time before you get out from a
lift, landlords ready to do every dirty things to discriminate certain people
in order to keep the price of their properties, or EVEN WORSE!
How do we react to these behaviours? Some of us go to talk to those
people. Some of us keep silence. Some of us talk about that with friends. Some
of us seek help from authorities when the behaviours become too much of an
offense.
With my so-called artistic mind, I want to make a documentary that can
do some impact on our way of seeing urban life in Hong Kong, a city that we all
share.
I am looking for some people who accept to be filmed to talk about their
unique experience and point of view of "selfish behaviours". As long
as you live in Hong Kong, ALL AGES and ALL NATIONALITIES are welcome. This
documentary will be done in a relaxed tone (even funny at some moments). I am
not putting any judgement onto those behaviours. I simply need your point of
view and your personal experience.
We look for communication, understanding, different voices, different
cultures and the love of sharing life experience!
If you are interested, please feel free to contact me and I will discuss
with you how and where to film your part.
But since it is a self-financed project, I can’t offer any money in
return (I hope I will one day!).
Hope to see you through my camera lens some day!
MERCI !”
Last year, Adeline directed another 26-minute documentary in Hong Kong
for the "La Caravane des 10 Mots" (The Caravan of 10 Words), a
cultural project about French language, created in France in 2003, which became
international since 2006.
"La Caravane des 10 Mots - Hong Kong" (2008)
In her documentary, she explores a tough, loving and
unsettling Hong Kong through the eyes of contesting artists, questioning youths
and stories by long-established dwellers.
You can watch it below in original language
(French, English, and Cantonese) with French subtitles only.
Btw, that was the only abit 'unhappy' incident I experienced at Hong Kong in my short stay there then. Tried to watch the documentary video above but barely a minute into it, it 'hanged' on me :( Will try again later on.
Hi there, I believe I am 'camera-shy' too :P anyway, I do not 'qualify' since I dun live in Hong Kong (wish to in a way) but I remember 'experiencing' some people 'knocking' into my shoulders while walking fast around but I understand that HK is a fast-pace place (and similiar selfish acts can be found in Singapore too). But I do wish people will at least apologise (in appropriate situations) where-ever. 1 unhappy incident b4 when a boy stepped on my foot and didn't, shortly later, I discovered it turned a big nasty 'purple' (blood clot I think) below the nail :(
Would love to... but too selfish to help;P Just kidding, I would like to help but don't like being filmed. But I know lots of selfish people, may be they can help.
Frederic Ambroisine is a Hong Kong cinema expert and documentary director who has made over 140 DVD bonus features for film distribution companies in France, the UK, the USA and Germany...
Frederic Ambroisine is a Hong Kong cinema expert and documentary director who has made over 140 DVD bonus features for film distribution companies in France, the UK, the USA and Germany. Born in France, his passion and knowledge of Asian cinema led him to become a regular writer since 2002 for the French magazines Kumite, Asia Pulp and Mad Asia. He is an artistic consultant, writer and director of DVD extra features for Wild Side Film’s 100+ DVD/Blu-Ray collection “Shaw Brothers – Les Essentiels”. Fredederic visits Hong Kong annually and has interviewed hundreds of cinema industry personalities over the years. Many of his interviews and extra features have appeared on dvds/blu-rays from CTV International, Pathé Distribution, Des Films, StudioCanal, BQHL, One Plus One, Eureka Entertainment, Image Entertainment, Koch Media, Anolis, Tiberius Film and Galileo Medien Ag. His feature-length documentary “Fica: From the Near East to the Far East” was screened in 2010 at the Vesoul International Asian Film Festival. In 2011 Frederic directed the official “Making Of” documentary for Michele Placido’s action thriller “Le Guetteur” (The Lookout) starring Daniel Auteuil, Matthieu Kassovitz, Olivier Gourmet and Violante Placido.
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