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REVISITING TEN YEARS:
On Hong Kong's Dystopia

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Jevons Au is a writer and director, well-known for “Dialect” in “Ten Years” (2015) and “Trivisa” (2016), for which he won the Best Director at the 36th Hong Kong Film Awards, and twice Best Film winner at the 35th and 36th Hong Kong Film Awards.
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Emile Dirks is a PhD candidate in the University of Toronto's Department of Political Science where he explores the policing and detention of marginalized populations in contemporary China. Previously, Emile was a research associate at the London School of Economics' International Drug Policy Unit and a visiting scholar at Yunnan University's School of Public Administration.
The year is 2025, Hong Kong is visualized as a bleak dystopia, crumbling under a repressive, authoritarian rule.

Anthologized to present a broad range of perspectives and stories, the five shorts in 
Ten Years communicate the desolate future of a place condemned to the principle of  “One country, Two systems.”

In broad summary, the film addresses fictitious scenes in which the cityscape is rife with talk of political assassinations, the precarious situation of migrant workers, the soon-to-be artifacts of Hong Kong culture, the dwindling presence of Cantonese language, and the censorship of local products and “subversive” literature. 
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In the five years since the film’s release, where does fiction and reality overlap?



Presented by the Embassy Cultural House: Jevons Au, director of the Ten Years short “Dialect”, and Emile Dirks, Ph.D candidate at the University of Toronto studying the policing of marginalized populations in contemporary China, will come together to explore possible answers.

This cross-cultural conversation will explore the way in which colonialism and authoritarianism have stifled culture both in Canada, China, and Hong Kong.

​It is no coincidence that the totalizing force of Britain in Canada, and China in Hong Kong, share connections in their mutual use of marginalization and oppression.
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Where to watch Ten Years:
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NETFLIX
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EDITORIAL TEAM

ONLINE FOUNDER
Tariq Hassan Gordon

COFOUNDERS & CURATORIAL ADVISORS 
 
Jamelie Hassan 
& Ron Benner

ADVISORY CIRCLE
Samer Abdelnour, Marnie Fleming, Wyn Geleynse, Fern Helfand, S F Ho, Lorraine Klaasen, Judith Rodger, Ruth Skinner, Mary Lou Smoke, and Lucas Stenning 

COORDINATING EDITORS
Tariq Hassan Gordon & 
Olivia Mossuto

CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
Blessy Augustine, Anahí González, Jared Hendricks-Polack, Jessica Irene Joyce, Ira Kazi, 
Shelley Kopp, Jenna Rose Sands, Mireya Seymour, Venus Tsao, Diana Tamblyn, and Michelle Wilson. 

VIRTUAL TOUR
Andreas Buchwaldt

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OUR STORY
Artists Jamelie Hassan and Ron Benner and jazz musician Eric Stach founded the Embassy Cultural House (1983-1990) located in the restaurant portion of the Embassy Hotel at 732 Dundas Street in East London. In 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Embassy Cultural House was re-envisioned as a virtual artist-run space and website. 

The Embassy Cultural House gratefully acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council and the London Arts Council through the City of London's Community Arts Investment Program.
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The Embassy Cultural House is thankful for the mentorship program established by Western University's Visual Arts department and the continued support of the students and Faculty of Arts & Humanities.
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E M B A S S Y  C U L T U R A L  H O U S E . C A

The Embassy Cultural House (ECH) is located on the traditional lands of the Anishinaabek, Haudenosaunee, Lūnaapéewak, and Chonnonton peoples, at the forks of Deshkan Ziibi (Antler River), an area subject to the Dish with One Spoon Covenant Wampum and other treaties, colonized as London, Ontario. The ECH strives to create meaningful relationships between the Indigenous Peoples of Turtle Island and our contributors. The ECH honours the stewardship of the many Indigenous peoples who have resided on these lands since time immemorial.

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