Gina_Wong

Road to Day Dream Mine ( 2016 , Hong Kong & Australia )

Mundi Mundi Plains, NSW

Gina_Wong

Road to Day Dream Mine ( 2016 , Hong Kong & Australia )

Mundi Mundi Plains, NSW

Safari on Garden Road : in memory of Siu Fa the Jaguar

Siu Fa the Jaguar in Hong Kong 

In memory of the jaguar that had lived in the Hong Kong Zoological and Botanical Gardens

I used to walk from home to Admiralty MTR station via the Botanical Gardens several times a week. Every time, I would passed by this jaguar , majestically resting on the rock in his cage.  Now that she had gone,  I would never known if it had a name.   

It did not occur to my younger self that this captivity had robbed this beautiful animal of the chance to run and the chance to capture its own food.  I would just walk briskly passed by his cage; most likely to be late for some appointment.   Later, when I had grown a bit older and had understood a bit more about this world,  I began to pause by his cage and tried to wave at him.   Sometimes I could see her just lying there, looking slightly deflated and bored and other times more energetic and hopeful.  Most of the time, she was no where to be seen.  She has no companion ; there was just her in the cage.  

For about two years,  I lived so close to this jaguar that I could hear his roar every day.  That was when I realised I did not need to go on a safari but I already am in one.  What a beauty !  

A friend had suggested we should go to catch Pokemon in the park last week; and that's when I remembered the jaguar.   I looked her up on the Internet; she has a name !  She was Siu Fa.  Thank you Siu Fa the Jaguar who had been with us in Hong Kong for 20 years.  We love you  ! 

About Siu Fa : Born in Berlin Zoo in Germany in 1987, Siu Fa was sent to the park two years later and had two offspring. Well received by local and overseas visitors, she died of old age last June at the age of 21.

Jag in action

Click this link to see Jag running in fields

Films to see

Born Free

Joy Adamson and her husband, Kenya game warden George Adamson, raise Elsa, a lion cub. When Elsa approaches maturity, Joy determines she must re-educate Elsa to living in the wild so that the lioness can return to a free life.

Of Talking to the Walls : Shirley Valentine & If Only the Walls Could Talk

Films I See 

Shirley Valentine
If Only the Walls Could Talk


HELLO..

Is anyone there ??  

Collateral Damage

Films I See by Gina Wong

I am bored

Here is a challenge for our film buffs :  detect this formula in any film you see in the next few weeks.

Our hero, always a man, faces a challenge.  He lost his woman, either a wife or girlfriend.  She either died or divorced and is removed from our story.  As the story develop, the man meets a new woman.  They overcome dangers or difficulties.  They fall in love during the process.  End of the movie. Repeat.

Collateral Damage :  The protagonist Gordon is a fireman. His wife and son was killed by a bomb; our hero hunts down the killers.  He went to where the terrorist live and there he met a young mother with a son.  There follows much gun fights and chases.  End of movie.

Just like Heavens : A lonely landscape architect David falls for the spirit of the beautiful woman who used to live in his new apartment.  His first wife died; he moved into Elizabeth's apartment. Elizabeth is a doctor, who has never been in love.  David and Elizabeth falls in love. 

Oblivion  
Just Like Heavens : directed by Mark Waters (2005) 95min 
Oblivion : directed by Joseph Kosinski 
Sara 雛妓 (2015) 

sara.

Sara (2015)

Alternative Titles : Que Sera Sera, 雛妓, Chu JiCast : Choi Charlene, Yam Simon, Kung Mimi
Description : Sara is a journalist, when her last article that accuses many politicians and businessmen in the use of sexual services was rejected by her chief editor, she moves to Thailand. There Sara meets a Thai child prostitute. That meeting made her remember her own dark past
So if you want to see films with a different formula, try PUFF.  It's cool. Yeah.. 
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Straight Otta Compton

Films I See by Gina Wong


Reality rap shit , Niggaz wit' attitude , Skateland in the 1980s.  Cube and Dr Dre 

What were you listening to in 1989?  While fans in Hong Kong was humming to the love ballads of Alan Tam's 愛在深秋， there was a revolution boiling in South Central Los Angeles by five black young men who decided to sing about the discrimination and violence from the city's law enforcement.  Hong Kong, you gotta catch up a little.  Ditch the ballads. 

"Mum just want to do  the best for you "

"Yah. I wanna do the best for me "

" hello manager , Are these rappers ? "

"You can't come down here and hares these guys just because they are black. "

"Fuck tha police ... " 

We gave the people truth. 

Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. Whatever your feelings are about the events that led up to Mr. Brown’s death, you can’t deny the fact that there is a large discourse in this country among young African-Americans and law enforcement. This isn’t something new. Almost a quarter-century ago this nation had the same problems, brought to a head by the videotaped beating of Rodney King in Los Angeles. The acquittal of the four policemen involved brought about the same reactions

Why girls must make films

Poster from the exhibition The Personal and the Political @ Experimenta 2012

Almost every important book that I have been taught in primary school had been written by a man. Even the most beautiful poems were feelings and perspectives were those of a man. And when I was a kid there was a hidden massage in all those literature I read and that it was the boy who were the main character.  The voice of that book has always been from the head of a boy. 

The girl ? Well, the girl is almost always the love interest of the story.  She is the subject of an interest , albeit love , of the boy. It could be Harry Potter or David from I Am David. Or even the Bible. It is never a story told by a girl's perspective. They were books from four guys.  John, Peter, Mathew and Luke.  I used to wonder if that Luke is the same Luke with Skywalker who is off course another boy. 

And that's why I was blown away by the TV series Girls. Somebody has the audacity to write in a girl's point of view and even dare to call the title of the script Girls.  I was never explicitly taught that our stories are important enough to be told.  In fact, after so many years living out in this world, I sometimes think I too have lost my voice. 

For I like many women have lost their true self and has one narrow version of feminity to be thrust upon them. The church group which I belonged to as a teenager told me that God fearing girls do not have sex and have sex is only after marriage.  Suffice to say that I was a very sensitive and serious girl.  It was only years later ....  

to be continued.

The places I have never been

Stills from Experimenta Simulated Vehicles 
by Austrailian artist Steven Eastaugh

curated and presented by Gina Wong

June 2016 
This event is free but by email invitation. Please register with Vanessa Choi vanessa@experimenta.hk

Travels - Antartica - Experimental Films

Steven Eastaugh

Notes from afar

You read travel essays and guides to places where the writer usually figured out an exotic city and seemed to know everything about it. That usually makes me wondered how they could do that. Every place that I had ever been to is as much of a mystery to me as it is of its people and more so after I visited the place. 

This is a travelogue of a girl who had finally become a woman through her wanders in this big wild world. 

Gina has embarked on solo journeys for the most is her life. Her furthest is to the Easter Island , her most remote in Greenland and her longest foray is at Papeeti on the coast of Brazil. Udaipur and Uluru are two places that starts with a U that she loved and Morrea and Maui  ; She had lived in London for 12 years, Shanghai for 7 and Is now based in Hong Kong. .. to be continued..

The places I have never been

Stills from Experimenta Stimulated Vehicles 
Steven Eastaugh

curated and presented by Gina Wong

June 2016

Travels - Antartica - Experimental Films

Notes from afar

You read travel essays and guides to places where the writer usually figured out an exotic city and seemed to know everything about it. That usually makes me wondered how they could do that. Every place that I had ever been to is as much of a mystery to me as it is of its people and more so after I visited the place. 

This is a travelogue of a girl who had finally become a woman through her wanders in this big wild world. 

Gina has embarked on solo journeys for the most is her life. Her furthest is to the Easter Island , her most remote in Greenland and her longest foray is at Papeeti on the coast of Brazil. Udaipur and Uluru are two places that starts with a U that she loved and Morrea and Maui  ; She had lived in London for 12 years, Shanghai for 7 and Is now based in Hong Kong. .. to be continued..

Road to Day Dream Mine

Road to Day Dream Mine

Premiered at Art Central 2016

Experimenta X Screen

The Auditorium

4PM-6PM 22-26 March 2016

Gina Wong's new short film Road to Day Dream Mine was shot in the red desert of the Mundi Mundi Plains, NSW.  Her new film will be shown in Augmented Realities at Art Central.  Register with Iris Tsang to view in AR version. ( contact iris in June )  iris@experimenta.hk 

For other enquiries, info@experimenta.hk

Gina Wong in Road to Day Dream Mine (2016)

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