This film is about how people understand Hong Kong and Hong Kongers, thus also about how we understand ourselves, as Hong Kongers. Tracing personal histories from spatial memories is the essence of this film. The juxtaposition of two stories on “first home” – director’s story (as a local born Hong Konger) in Kwun Tong and the actress’ story (a new immigrant from China to Hong Kong in the 80’s) in Mei Foo Sun Chuen, may re-inscribe Hong Kong history and Hong Kongers’ changing identities in a more interesting way than what the grand narrative history offers, be it the British colonial government, or the seemingly self-governed Hong Kong government under People’s Republic of China
And identities… have been tarrying between moving and rootedness…

Anson is a queer researcher-artist and Buddhist. Specialised in research-based artworks and essay film/video, she has been doing documentary, web-based art projects, music video, sound art and sound design for 35 years. She also taught in universities for 20 years in Hong Kong. Her interests started with gender/sexuality in the 1980’s-90’s, gentrification and urban redevelopment in 2000’s-10’s, emotions and the notion of fear in 2010’s, and in recent years, mindfulness and neuroscience. Recently, she has finished the teacher’s training from Oxford Mindfulness Foundation and have started her triple roles of artist-researcher and mindfulness teacher.

Her works have been selected for festivals including Busan International Film Festival, Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, Hong Kong International Film Festival and Vancouver International Film Festival and Queer East UK. Her works are collected by M+ Hong Kong.