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exodus of nowhere is a series of three documentary films that converses its makers’, their friends’, and family’s personal stories about migration with detailed historical narratives about Hong Kong, Mainland China, and the larger Asian region. Lee Wai Yi, Enoch Ng, and Kelvin Wu – all connected through v-artivist, a group of video activists that is concerned with social issues in Hong Kong, specifically with issues surrounding urban redevelopment – have come to the project via their own respective occupations with current matters of belonging and migration. Each of them had become increasingly aware of, and curious about, the meaning of “borders” through their engagements with social movements and this curiosity has resulted in approximately nine hours of film about themselves, the people close to them, and the socio-historical contexts in which they find themselves. Lee Wai Yi, the most senior member of the group, started participating in social movements as a student in the 1990s. Her first involvement was with protests against the demolition of Hong Kong’s rooftop housing – cheap and informal dwellings on top of residential buildings. The social struggle surrounding their survival engaged a progressive and self-organised grassroots movement. From this experience – along a range of other movements related to Hong Kong’s grassroots population and their rights to the places in which they lived – she eventually formed, together with friends, v-artivist in 2007. Enoch Ng, then, joined v-artivist initially as an intern, years later. As a member of the next generation of students concerned with the society in which they live, he sought answers to questions about the conflicting relation between “local” and “global” in Hong Kong. Kelvin Wu, finally, is another of this new generation of students. Already working with grassroots people in the community-based struggles surrounding urban redevelopment, he joined the project of exodus of nowhere following his concern with anti-migrant sentiments and their exploitation by the government in its claims to the places where, among other people, many migrants live; places that are up for redevelopment towards substantial financial gain.

Stories for social change in Hong Kong: an interview with the makers of exodus of nowhere