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Hong Kong (HKG) - Gerard Holthuis (The Netherlands, 1999, 35mm, 13:00 min)
The city of Hong Kong is often seen as a living
example of the Virilian notion of ‘speed’. “Change takes place in present-day
Hong Kong in ways that do not merely disturb our sense of time but completely
upset and reverse it. (…) It suggest[s] a space traversed by different times
and speeds”. (Ackbar Abbas). In 1998 Kai Tak airport in the middle of Hong Kong
was closed. Approaching Kai Tak was a unique experience for the passengers .
«One could read the newspapers in the street» one passenger exclaimed. In Hong
Kong (HKG) Holthuis films the approach and the passing by of the
airplanes in the middle of a city. An observation at the end of this century.
Music by David Byrne.
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