SINOPHONE FILMMAKING
In cooperation between the Taiwan Studies Program, International Visiting Professorship Support by the University, Worldmaking CATS Kolleg Epochal Lifeworlds: Narratives of Crisis and Change, the Confucius Institute and our Hong Kong Film Night Team. Films from Hong Kong, Taiwan, Tibet and the People’s Republic of China which discuss complex and conflicted Sinophone realities and address issues of subjectivities, vulnerabilities and the effects of biopolitics in the Sinophone world will be shown in this series! 

WHEN? July 14, 2025, 18:30-21:00 WHERE? CATS Auditorium R. 010.01.05, Heidelberg University WHAT?

  Worlding Hong Kong: Perma-cinema and Slow Hope  

This screening program features six young artists from Hong Kong whose creative practices embody the emerging perma-cinema movement. Inspired by permaculture, perma-cinema refers to a cinematic approach deeply rooted in sustainability—encompassing filmmaking, daily life, and community building. Set in the context of Hong Kong, an island-city shaped by border politics, neoliberal pressures, and cultural hybridity, perma-cinema also serves as a form of self-sustaining art, which acts to maintain one’s own autonomy of memory and affect against the societal inertia and isolation amid global and local upheavals.

Artists featured (in alphabetical order): Chan Hau Chun, CHAN Ting,  HUANG Ting, LO Lai Lai Natalie, Chung WONG, Long WONG

Curated by Worldmaking fellow: Dr. Zimu Zhang (Assistant professor, Education University of Hong Kong)

See the full list of film screenings this summer term here.