Umbrella Movement Archives - No Man Is An Island

“If We Burn” Recollects Hong Kong’s 2019 Protests in a Slow Burn Manner

·February 22, 2023·3 min read

Lianain Films’ four hour-long documentary “If We Burn” offers one of the most exhaustive retrospectives on Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protest movement Read More

A City Under Siege, in Body and Spirit

English Film

·May 18, 2021·3 min read

Inside the Brick Wall—a film that can no longer safely be safely screened in Hong Kong—will no doubt prove a worthy historical document of the Hong Kong protests. Not only does the film document a key moment in the protests, but it proves a film encapsulating the dynamics of the protest in microcosm—and the subjective struggle faced by Hongkongers as a whole today Read More

A Glimpse at Democracy in Motion

English Film

·May 11, 2021·4 min read

Taking Back the Legislature, produced by the Hong Kong Documentary Filmmakers group, is a powerful document of one of the most dramatic events of the Hong Kong protests of summer 2019 Read More

A Glimpse into the Life of a Hong Kong Everyman in the Midst of Protest

English Film

·April 1, 2021·4 min read

The short film, Night is Young, directed by Kwok Zune, follows a Hong Kong taxi driver on one night in 2019, sometime during the protests that broke out in reaction to a proposed extradition bill that allowed for the deportation of criminal suspects to China. It was feared that this bill would be deleterious to political freedoms in Hong Kong, with the bill used to deport pro-democracy advocates to China to face charges Read More

Reading Havel in Hong Kong—And Arendt in Bangkok

Books English Life

·February 2, 2021·2 min read

What follows, written at a time when news is coming out of both Hong Kong and Thailand of young activists facing prison time for speaking out for things they believe, is the English language original of the preface of Vigil: Hong Kong on the Brink Read More