ABOUT Karen

Co-founder of Dialogues of Oceanus Collaborative Workshop (Hong Kong), producer, curator and researcher

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Born and raised in Hong Kong. After her graduation from the University of Hong Kong in French and German, she worked at Ying E Chi, an independent film organisation from Hong Kong, where she coordinated film screenings and Japan Hong Kong Independent Film Festival in Tokyo.

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In 2017, she moved to Berlin for her MA in Cultural Studies at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin with a focus on political philosophy and Hong Kong colonial history. During her stay in Berlin, she curated two film festivals: Berlin Hong Kong Independent Film Festival (2019) and Voices of the Ground: Short Film in Chinese languages (2021). With her cross-disciplinary experiences and focus on politics, she produced plays related to feminism, refugee issues and racism: “Artes Moriendi” (2018) at Berlin Performing Arts Festival and a play “A Tidal Home” (2021), which was premiered in Hong Kong Cattle Depot Theatre.

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Her first academic article “Protests in Hong Kong from Confucianism to Levinas's Substitution” was published on iafor Research Archive in 2020. She also attended Film-Philosophy Conference 2018 in Sweden, holding a workshop titled "Global Circulation as Discursive Space: Case Study of Hongkonger & Hong Kong Indie Film in Global Circulation”

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She is now also working as a audience development and digital marketing co-ordinator at the European Film Academy.

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Previous Projects: ​

• (2021) Theatre project in HK A Tidal Home

• (2021)  Voice of the Ground -- Short Film Festival
               at Kino Moviemento Berlin

• (2019) Berlin Hong Kong Independent Film Festival at Cinema Babylon 

• (2018) Theatre project in Berlin Artes Moriendi

• (2017) Japan Hong Kong Independent Film Festival
  On Earth We Stand  (Book about the independent film market in Hong Kong.) 

• (2022) Short Film Project in Germany Wegen Hegel

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Current Project:​​

• Exhibition: Exclave in March 2023

• Documentary Theatre: The Bustling Whispers in Dec 2023

• Screening Project: Waves of Freedom in March 2023

• Screening Project: Experiments in Cinema in April 2023

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Photo credit: @Claudia Stelar

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