Obedience

Five years in the making, the latest film by acclaimed independent documentarian Wong Siu-Pong is a thought-provoking day-in-the-life snapshot of Hong Kong. The film focuses on Hung Hom, a neighbourhood of contrasts, housing the majority of Hong Kong’s funeral homes, along with a growing number of affluent and middle-class buildings which tower over short, dilapidated older residential buildings waiting to be torn down and rebuilt. Revealing how our waste is never truly discarded, but merely processed into something of value for others, Obedience forces us to reconsider the concept of “waste” in modern society. Through his quiet observation of this seemingly ordinary neighbourhood tucked in the very centre of the city, Wong shows a microcosm of Hong Kong and its many contradictions.

Supported by the Hong Kong Economic Trade Office London.