What Comes After Disappearance? Ann Hui at the End of Hong Kong Cinema

時間 Date｜2025.11.11 (Tue.) 19:00-21:30

地點 Venue｜牯嶺街小劇場二樓藝文空間 Guling Street Avant-Garde Theatre 2F

主講人 Speaker｜Prof. Jean Ma（香港大學比較文學系孔慶熒梁巧玲基金教授席藝文講座教授 Mr. and Mrs. Hung Hing-Ying Professor in the Arts, Department of Comparative Literature, The University of Hong Kong）

主持人 Host｜王潔瑩 Dr. Klavier Wang（國立陽明交通大學視覺文化研究所助理教授 Assistant Professor, Institute of Visual Studies, NYCU）

講座摘要 Abstract

In her most recent film Elegies (2023), Ann Hui documents Hong Kong's poetry through several of its leading lights. Although the film focuses on living poets, its English-language title points to a poetic form defined by loss and retrospection. In exploring Hui's mobilization of elegy as that which connects poetry and cinema, this talk develops a critical reassessment of the notions of death and disappearance that have theoretically framed Hong Kong cinema in the contemporary period. Hui's cinematic elegy sets into clear contrast the double edge of disappearance as both an obstruction to and source of historical insight.