Eco-consciousness and Green Activism: Re-inventing Hong Kong through Its Literature and Film

Abstract

This presentation considers the emergence of alternative communities such as Sangwoodgoon to be evidence that the colonial discourse is being deliberately challenged by bottom-up activist discourse. This activist discourse was prompted by the threat to heritage buildings, which were demolished to make way for Hong Kong’s development projects. The same spirit led to the founding of farming village that promote alternative lifestyles and encourage Hong Kongers to cherish the long-established farming industry, which was also under siege from urban development. This presentation further analyzes Sangwoodgoon not as merely a farm that uses experimental organic growing methods and permaculture design principles. The farm’s backbone is food production and, building on this platform, the residents have established the Food and Farm Film Festival (FFFF) to raise the awareness of food- and agriculture-related topics both locally and globally, and to explore the most basic principles of life and living.