Methods of Art – Archive of Artists Interviews

For myself, I always have to have my own personal motivational … own personal passions when I am
creating the art because it is … I know it is going to be a very very long process. And I always have to
find a way to nail it, to make sure I always have the same emotion or same motivation on it.
To me, the most important things of my work is to give the audience an emotional journey. That
they can follow the character or even put themselves as the character and go through all the ups
and downs in their life. So, sometimes I would just tell myself, „oh, no, the characters have to be sad,
and now the characters have to be happy,“ or how the characters have to experience different types
of emotion. And usually my challenge or I said the creativity is: how do you create a situation for this
character to experience?
And this situation will have to make the audience identify as well. Then, there are a lot of cultural
references, social references I have to put in in order to create this event for this character to
experience. And it has to make sense to the audience and then, this is usually my biggest challenge

Kit Hung / Method

Bio

* 1977, Kung is an independent filmmaker from Hong Kong. He studied film production in the USA and Hong Kong. He attended the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago for his BA in Design 2001 and a M.F.A. in Studio 2005. Kit Hung is most notable for his film “Soundless Wind Chime (2009)” which won him several awards. He is teaching in the School of Creative Media in the City University of Hong Kong.

Credits

The interview was conducted November 29, 2014 at a sound stage in the Communication and Visual Art Building at Baptist University Hong Kong.

Interviewed by: Johannes M. Hedinger

Filmed and recorded by: Banny Ng

Edited by: Paul Barsch

Transcript by: Yvonne Mattern

Produced by: Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK), Connecting Spaces Documents #5

Special thanks to: Baptist University