Hong Kong Oral History Collection - Hong Kong Film Archive
Introduction
The Hong Kong Film Archive is dedicated to the preservation of Hong Kong’s film heritage. It collects and conserves films and artefacts, provides public access facilities, and conducts a wide variety of activities that promote Hong Kong’s film culture and facilitate research on the history of local cinema.
Major Presentations and Exhibitions on Hong Kong Film
As a contribution to the Hong Kong International Film Festival held every year, exhibitions and programmes were organized by the Hong Kong Film Archive. They included:
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Year
|
Presentations and Exhibitions
|
|---|---|
| 2005 | Pearl River Delta: Movie‧Culture‧Life |
| 2006 | The Glorious Modernity of Kong Ngee |
| 2007 | Li Han-hsiang, Storyteller |
| 2008 | Epic Times, Simple Stories: The World of Zhu Shilin |
| 2009 | In the Name of Love: The Films of Evan Yang, and presented the newly restored classic Confucius . |
| 2010 | The Kid is All Right: Remembering Bruce Lee |
| 2010 | It was 75 Years Ago...Celebrating Cathay's Anniversary |
| 2011 | All for One and One for All: Union Film |
| 2012 | The Strange Case of Hong Kong Amoy Cinema |
| 2012 | Once Upon a Hero: The Wong Fei-hung Saga |
| 2013 | The Cinematic Matrix of Golden Harvest |
Research on Hong Kong Films and the Oral History Project
The documentation of film history is a race against time. The Archive has been conducting extensive interviews with veteran and contemporary filmmakers with a view to sketching out the history of Hong Kong cinema. The audio/video-taped records are valuable documentations of first-hand personal stories for film researchers.
Besides, another important area of research for the archive are to search and compile all available primary materials for the publication of the Hong Kong Filmography Series and thematic studies; and for the organization of exhibitions and screening programmes.
Publications on Hong Kong Films
Six volumes of HKFA Oral History Series are published. They are
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Year
|
Title
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|---|---|
| 2000 | Hong Kong Here I Come |
| 2001 | An Age of Idealism: Great Wall & Feng Huang Days |
| 2006 | Director Chor Yuen |
| 2007 | Director Wong Tin-lam (2007, in Chinese) |
| 2008 | An Emerging Modernity: Hong Kong Cinema of the 1960s (2008, in Chinese) |
| 2010 | Director Lung Kong |
The HKFA also publish the Hong Kong Filmography Series, thematic books, catalogues （http://www.lcsd.gov.hk/CE/CulturalService/HKFA/en/4-1.php ）
and distribute a quarterly Newsletter
（http://www.lcsd.gov.hk/CE/CulturalService/HKFA/en/4-4.php ）
that reports on our latest developments and includes features on different aspects of film culture.
Website
http://www.lcsd.gov.hk/CE/CulturalService/HKFA/index.php
