It’s often said that despite its fast-paced nature, Hong Kong is a city where time stands still. Old relics remain as new developments spring up, and those who initially planned on just a short stay struggle to comprehend how they’ve remained here for generations.
This idea is something that clearly resonated with Italian artist and scholar Giovanni Aloi, who shot this surreal but absorbing mini-doc on a recent trip to the Kong.
Described as “a deep meditation by a human, lost in forgetting Hong Kong”, the short film loosely examines life, death and everything in between through images of fish flipping in wet markets, oldies rocking the tai chi in the park, and young’uns grooving out on their headphones or posing for modelling shoots.
The dreamy spoken word voiceover insists: “In a timeless city, you don’t need a clock to be on time”, suggesting, we reckon, that there’s a place for everyone in modern Hong Kong.
Unless, that is, we’ve totally missed the point.
