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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
iTUNES
GOOGLE PLAY

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 and Dan Smoke,  and Lucas Stenning 

COORDINATING EDITORS
Tariq Hassan Gordon & 
Olivia Mossuto

WEB DESIGN & SOCIAL MEDIA 
Tariq Hassan Gordon, Ira Kazi, Olivia Mossuto, Niloufar Salimi,  JoAnna Weil 

VIRTUAL TOUR
Andreas Buchwaldt

PRINT PUBLICATIONS
Blessy Augustine, Shelley Kopp, 
Olivia Mossuto

CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
Andreas Buchwaldt, Blessy Augustine, Anahí González, Ira Kazi, ​Shelley Kopp, Ashar Mobeen, Niloufar Salimi,  Jenna Rose Sands, JoAnna Weil & Michelle Wilson. 

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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. Other former members of the board were: Debrann Eastabrook, Henry Eastabrook, Sharron Forrest, Wyn Geleynse, Janice Gurney, Jean Hay (1929 - 2008), Doug Mitchell, Kim Moodie, Gerard Pas, Peter Rist, Wanda Sawicki, Jean Spence and Jennie White. 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. 

This project is supported by the Ontario Arts Council and the London Arts Council through the City of London's Community Arts Investment Program.
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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

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