Duck Race

When we heard about the city’s annual duck race, we thought we’d take a “quack” at it. Hitch a ride along with us here …

Home Takeaways

“Home Takeaways” is a heritage cooking series, featuring cultural recipes passed down from one generation to another. In the first season of 9 webisodes, we catch Debbie Chow, a Hong Kong-born Canadian, just before she relocates from her birthplace to USA with her American husband and two toddlers. She learns from her mother how to cook a selection of her favorite Cantonese dishes. These takeaways from home, she hopes, will not only allow her children to grow up enjoying Cantonese home cooking, but will also preserve bite-sized heritage for future generations to come.

Home Takeaways – soy sauce chicken

Home Takeaways – Sweet Ginkgo Nut Soybean Soup

More webisodes to come…

Reflections – a moving painting by an Artificial Intelligence

“Reflections” is a moving painting by an artificial intelligence, named Albert Iynstein. It reflects on Hong Kong’s fast-paced, often robotic city life, and juxtaposes it with nature’s humanisation in the form of a haiku. Using neural networks developed by Paint A.I., Albert Iynstein studied many visual artworks before his time, namely Picasso, Munch and Hokusai, which inspired him to apply their styles (not filters) to this moving painting artificially and intelligently.

Artificial Intelligent Painter: Albert Iynstein
Artificial Intelligence Developer: Boris Boege
A.I. Assistant Developer: Patrick Kosiol
Director & Haiku: Cassandra Chan

Reflections

Random catch of the sun’s reflection by the pool.

How To Make Tuen Ng Festival rice dumplings

How to make rice dumplings during Tuen Ng Festival — the natural and healthy way. Many thanks to Greenfields Hong Kong! (Completed: June 2010)

Shanghai Maglev

Travel to the future… (Completed: July 2010)

How To Make Tofu

How to make tofu — the natural and healthy way. Many thanks to Greenfields Hong Kong! (Completed: May 2010)

How To Make Ching Ming Tea

How to make Ching Ming tea during Ching Ming — a traditional Chinese festival, when people sweep the tombs of their ancestors. Many thanks to Greenfields Hong Kong! (Completed: March 2010)

Etre et Durer

Être et Durer is a music video that features the traceurs of the Hong Kong Parkour Association performing on the streets of Hong Kong. (Completed: May 2009)

Fruits of Fury

Fruits of Fury is a martial arts music video made in reaction to Hong Kong’s Urban Renewal Authority’s plans to effectively remove the Central wet market in favor of building new residential and commercial complexes. The story: Two strangers, going grocery shopping, fight for ‘bok choy’ and end up going at each other with whatever’s around them – fresh flowers, fruits, vegetables, fish and pork. Finally, they grow exhausted, call it truce and grab a bite to eat at the nearby ‘dai pai dong’. They become fast friends, until it came time to settling the bill…

Created by: Cassandra Chan, Emma-Jade Li, Edwin Lee (Completed: August 2007)

Screenings: High & Dry – a multi-media exhibition (www.highanddry.com.hk) in celebration of the city’s street markets.