Movies: Mok Chiu-Yu

  • 1999
    Ordinary Heroes

    Ordinary Heroes (1999)

    Ordinary Heroes

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    Ordinary Heroes is a narration about the life stories of an advocate, a prostitute, a social worker, and a priest during the social movements from 1970s to 1980s in Hong Kong. The film is based upon true stories....

    Ordinary Heroes
  • 1978
    An Open Letter to the Literary Youth in Hong Kong

    An Open Letter to the Literary Youth in Hong Kong (1978)

    An Open Letter to the Literary Youth in Hong Kong

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    Story: ‘1. We must make political films. 2. We must make films politically.’ Mok Chiu-yu’s allusions to Godard’s 1970 ‘What is to be done?’ manifesto are active in his wandering exploration of locations such as Hong Kong’s then newly opened City Hall...

    An Open Letter to the Literary Youth in Hong Kong
  • 2003
    The Life and Times of Wu Zhong Xian

    The Life and Times of Wu Zhong Xian (2003)

    The Life and Times of Wu Zhong Xian

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    Student rebels, labor organizers, Trotskyites, anarchists, sojourners in Paris, and human rights activists are the cast of real-life characters featured in THE LIFE AND TIMES OF WU ZHONG XIAN. Based on a stage play, this DV feature traces the poignan...

    The Life and Times of Wu Zhong Xian
  • 1978
    Letter to the Young Intellectuals of Hong Kong

    Letter to the Young Intellectuals of Hong Kong (1978)

    Letter to the Young Intellectuals of Hong Kong

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    Letter to the Young Intellectuals of Hong Kong is a 35mm film that utilised and appropriates footage from a documentary Henry Moore exhibition in Hong Kong, through over-dubbing, painting directly onto the film and other gestures, Mok turns the mater...

    Letter to the Young Intellectuals of Hong Kong