Full Time:
Round 1: 12:00 noon (GMT +8), January 3, 2025
Round 2: 12:00 noon (GMT +8), March 28, 2025
Part Time:
Round 1: 12:00 noon (GMT +8), January 3, 2025
Round 2: 12:00 noon (GMT +8), March 28, 2025
Step into a world where identity, memory, and modernity intertwine. MALCS Graduate Show 2025 brings together a vibrant constellation of creative projects, each exploring the shifting boundaries between self and society, tradition and transformation, the physical and the virtual.
Through photography, painting, film, literature, and digital media, these works invite you to reconsider the spaces we inhabit—both within and around us. From poetic diaries of insomnia and surrealist meditations on cultural duality, to evocative portraits of Hong Kong’s cinematic icons and the ruins of post-industrial cities, each piece is a meditation on belonging, alienation, and the search for meaning in a rapidly changing world.
Personal narratives illuminate the fluidity of gender and the power of costume, while documentary and illustration capture the resilience of diasporic journeys and fading traditions. The paradox of digital connection and emotional isolation is rendered in vivid color, as artists traverse the liminal zones between the real and the imagined.
Together, these works form a dialogue across time and space—between past and present, East and West, memory and modernity. They invite us to reflect on how we shape, and are shaped by, the spaces we occupy, and to find resonance in the complexities of the human experience.
Exhibition Period 5 – 8 June 2025 | 12:00 PM - 7:00 PM (Thursday - Sunday)
Venue HKU Arts Tech Lab, CPD - 4.35, 4/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU
Visitor Arrangements
Free admission. Pre-registration required two days in advance for non-HKU visitors.
Registration link:
https://hku.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eKdiZNWxjTL7by6
Master of Arts in Literary and Cultural Studies (MALCS)
University of Hong Kong
Date: First week of June
Proposal Submission (First round): 5 Mar to 31 Mar, 2025
Final Artiwork Submission Deadline: 18 May, 2025
All forms of art are WELCOMED!
Apply Now: Please see poster to apply.
Date: May 15, 2025
Time: 15:00 - 16:30
Venue: CPD 3.01, HKU
Format: Onsite
Please register at the poster.
Please come and join us!
Date: May 14, 2025
Time (3 sessions, 8-12 students per session): 9 - 10:30 am | 1 - 2:30 pm | 5 - 6:30 pm
Format: Online
Please come and join us!
Documenting Hong Kong 紀錄香港 is a brand new documentary film screening program organized in Fall 2024/25 by MALCS, The University of Hong Kong (HKU) to celebrate and promote the vibrant documentary film culture of Hong Kong. This initiative aims to bring the works of local documentarians across generations to the HKU community and beyond, showcasing the rich, contemporary, and diverse non-fiction narratives of the city.
From Sept to Nov 2024, MALCS, HKU organized the inaugeral Documenting Hong Kong Film Festival, screened 8 documentaries, including 2 feastures and 6 shorts at HKU. The 8 documentary films not only showcased vibrant culture of the city, but also the diversity of the documentary landscape in HK.
We are honoured and pleased to have invited 11 guest speakers participated in the 4 post-screening Q&As, including 8 filmmakers, 2 film scholars and 1 protagonist. We would like to thanks once again to all of them for participating in and elevating the discussion with our engaged audience.
Thanks to all the guest speakers who partipated in the post-screening Q&As:
Liu Wai-tong (Poet/Protagonist of Elegies)
Dr. Fiona Law (Film Scholar, HKU)
Dunet Chan Sheung Shing (Director of Still Life)
Dr. Esther Yau, (Film Scholar, HKU)
Chan Hau Chun 陳巧真 (Director of 32+4 and Call Me Mrs. Chan 叫我陳太)
Chui Chi Yin 徐智彥 (Director of Call Me Mrs. Chan 叫我陳太)
Jo Cheng 鄭藹如 (Director of Via Dolorosa 苦路)
Tammy Cheung 張虹 (Director of Rice Distribution 平安米)
Ma Chi Hang 馬智恆 (Director of Chuen Kee Ferry 全記渡)
(Fredie Chan 陳浩倫 (Director of Rhymes of Shui Hau 水口婆婆的山歌)
Dr. Chloe Lai 黎穎詩博士, (Executive Producer of Rhymes of Shui Hau 水口婆婆的山歌)
All of the screenings acheived great turnouts and audience's participation. The total number of attendees of all 4 screenings was over 300.
We would like to thanks all the people who helped in the organization of this film festival. Special thanks to Dr. Winnie Yee, the Programme Coordinator of MALCS, for her unwavering support, as well as Ms. Amy Kwan and Ms. Christina Chow, the Programme Officers of MALCS, and the website/poster designer Jonathan Chan for their hard work and dedication to assist in organizing this film festival.
Last but not least, our MALCS student/alumni helpers also contributed in the organization of the screenings. Without each one of you, these screenings would not have been possible. Let's continue to elevate the art of documentary cinema and leep the spirit of meaningful dialogue alive. Thank you for being a vital part of this enriching experience. We hope to see you again in the future. Thank you!
Please visit the Documentary Hong Kong wesite and photo gallery here:
