This video provides a provocative look at history of Hong Kong as a British Colony in Asia as constructed by the media. It combines Hong Kong TV commercials, British Government footage, and images from films made during the Japanese occupation, in the format of karaoke—a form of popular entertainment, to evoke a “typical” Hong Kong experience. The last image is a child, unmistakably Chinese, staring back at the camera.

WONG Chi-fai graduated from the Department of Fine Arts, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He works mainly in meida art, video, installation and theatre design. Since 1990, Wong has created stage designs for plays and performance by Hong Kong’s Sand & Bricks Theatre, as well as for theatre groups in Taiwan. He is also active in creating video art for theatre. Productions in which his work has appeared include the Altas’ Dance Art’s Memory Disorder and 2000.1.1 Unknown; Moment of Light theatre’s Deviant/Reasonant#2; Cheung Tat Ming’s Solo; and Bird, Birds by Makoto Matsushima.