WHO WANTS TO BE IN "A VERY SELFISH DOCUMENTARY"?

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My director friend Adeline C. Kayee, is now working on a new project about life in Hong Kong named “ A Very Selfish Documentary”, which will be basically about  selfish social behaviours in Hong Kong. It’s a 100% indie project (she’s the producer, director, cameraman, editor etc...) and she’s looking for people who want to be in it. The shooting schedules are mid-July (started already) to August 2009 and the interviewees can speak in any language (The final film will be subtitled in English).

 Adeline C. Kayee (right) in 2008, shooting  "La Carava des 10 Mots - Hong Kong"

Here is her presentation of “A Very Selfish Documentary”:

“ We live in a very compact city. Conflicts are what we experience every day. We constantly suffer from or witness certain selfish behaviours in this city. The most common ones could be: the person who enters a building before you lets the door bang at your face, people who "stand by" their finger on the "close door" button long time before you get out from a lift, landlords ready to do every dirty things to discriminate certain people in order to keep the price of their properties, or EVEN WORSE!

How do we react to these behaviours? Some of us go to talk to those people. Some of us keep silence. Some of us talk about that with friends. Some of us seek help from authorities when the behaviours become too much of an offense.

With my so-called artistic mind, I want to make a documentary that can do some impact on our way of seeing urban life in Hong Kong, a city that we all share.

I am looking for some people who accept to be filmed to talk about their unique experience and point of view of "selfish behaviours". As long as you live in Hong Kong, ALL AGES and ALL NATIONALITIES are welcome. This documentary will be done in a relaxed tone (even funny at some moments). I am not putting any judgement onto those behaviours. I simply need your point of view and your personal experience.

We look for communication, understanding, different voices, different cultures and the love of sharing life experience!

If you are interested, please feel free to contact me and I will discuss with you how and where to film your part.

But since it is a self-financed project, I can’t offer any money in return (I hope I will one day!).

Hope to see you through my camera lens some day!

MERCI !”

Last year, Adeline directed another 26-minute documentary in Hong Kong for the " La Caravane des 10 Mots" (The Caravan of 10 Words), a cultural project about French language, created in France in 2003, which became international since 2006."La Caravane des 10 Mots - Hong Kong" (2008)In her documentary, she explores a tough, loving and unsettling Hong Kong through the eyes of contesting artists, questioning youths and stories by long-established dwellers.You can watch it below in original language (French, English, and Cantonese) with French subtitles only.

La Caravane des 10 Mots Hong Kong 

For those who want to contact Adeline about her very selfish documentary: adelineckayee@gmail.com

Frédéric Ambroisine (July 22 nd, 2009)