Anson Hoi Shan Mak
麥海珊
ansonhsmak@gmail.com
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麥海珊
ansonhsmak@gmail.com
Her later works examine cityscapes, gentrification and urban redevelopment, notions of time and history, and personal and collective memories. In recent years, her interests have turned to the spiritual and emotional dimensions of traumatic experiences, and also diasporic experience.
Her works have been selected for festivals including Hong Kong International Film Festival, Vancouver International Film Festival, Busan International Film Festival, Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, and Queer East. They are also widely showcased in M+ Hong Kong, Videotage Hong Kong, MOCA Taipei, Times Art Center Berlin, Whitechapel Gallery London, RockBund Art Museum Shanghai, and Crossing Art, New York.
Her works are in the collection of M+, Hong Kong.
She taught at universities in Hong Kong (undergraduate and graduate programmes of cultural studies, cinema, and visual arts) for over 20 years and is currently a freelance artist and sound designer.
Since 2025, she has received a Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Life (MBCT-L) Trained Teacher Certificate from Oxford Mindfulness Foundation UK. She has started her new triple role as artist, researcher, and mindfulness teacher.
M.Phil., Dept. of Comparative Literature, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 2000
B.Soc.Sc., Film Department, School of Communication, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong 1991
Queer East, London, UK, May 2022
Women Make Waves Film Festival, Taiwan, Oct 2021
Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, Japan, Oct 2021
SPARK Festival, presented by British Council, Hong Kong, Oct 2021
15th Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival, Indonesia, Nov 2020
Hong Kong Asian International Film Festival, Hong Kong, Nov 2020
25th Busan International Film Festival, South Korea, Oct 2020
AFIAS Spain Moving Images Festival, Madrid, Spain, Jun 2019
The South Taiwan Film Festival, Taiwan, 2012
36th Hong Kong International Film Festival, Hong Kong, April 2012
Cambridge International Super 8 Film Festival, Cambridge, UK, 2009
14th Barcelona Independent Film Festival, Spain, Nov 2007
26th Vancouver International Film Festival, Canada, Sept 2007
Digital Cinema Seoul, Korea, July 2007
9th Taipei Film Festival, Taiwan, June 2007
The Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival 23rd Edition, US, May 2007
20th Singapore International Film Festival, Singapore, April 2007
31st Hong Kong International Film Festival, Hong Kong, April 2007
The 4th Hong Kong Lesbian & Gay Film/Video Festival, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong, 1994
Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, Los Angeles, US, 1993
Los Angeles Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, Los Angeles, US, 1993
San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, San Francisco, US, 1993
Singapore International Film Festival, Singapore, 1993
Third Wave International Women's Film & Video Festival, US, 1993
Home-coming, Trilogy of Anson Mak’s Experimental Documentary, co-presented with Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong, Feb 2021
Camera Stylo As Such, Videotage, Hong Kong, May–Jun 2019
Present Tense 2023: Perilous Playground, Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco, US, Aug 2023 – Aug 2024
Homeland in Transit, E-WERK Freiburg, Galerie für Gegenwartskunst, Germany, Sept 2023
LOVE+: Awakenings, Pao Galleries, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Nov 2022
Arsenal's Archive Biennale, Times Art Center Berlin, Arsenal 3, UK and Germany, Nov 2020
Fabrica Gallery, Brighton, UK, Apr 2019
Videodrome2, Marseille, France, Jun 2019
Phoenix Cinema and Arts Centre, Leicester, UK, Jun 2019
CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China, Jul – Aug 2016
MOCA Taipei, Taiwan, Sept 2015
Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK, Jul 2014
Duke’s at Komedia, Brighton, UK, Jul 2014
FACT Liverpool, UK, Jun 2014
RockBund Art Museum, Shanghai, China, 2012
White Box, New York, US, 2010
Crossing Art, New York, US, 2010
Ehwa Media Art Festival (EMAF), Seoul, Korea, May 2004
Asian Video Art Conference, VIDEOART CENTER Tokyo, Japan, Dec 2003
On the Edge of The Floating City, We Sing (2012)
Who’s Afraid of Ghost!? (2009)
Tra(i)nsient (2001)
Press / Interview
by M+, Hong Kong, 2022 (view video)
ISBN:978-988-19665-2-0
Mak, Hoi Shan Anson, “One-Way Street On A Turntable”, and “On The Edge Of A Floating City, We Sing”, in Lai, Chiu-han Linda, Choi, Wing-yee Kimburley (eds.), World Film Locations Hong Kong, Bristol: Intellect Books, 2013, p. 09-91, 104-105.
ISBN: 978-1-78320-021-4
Mak, Hoi Shan Anson, “Love: 1989”, in Kam, Liz, and King, Pui Wai (eds.), Yue Liang De Shao Dong 《月亮的騷動 ﹣﹣她她的初戀故事：我們的自述》, Hong Kong: Cultural Act Up, 2001.
Mak, Hoi Shan Anson, et al, King, Pui Wai (ed.), Bisexuality 《雙性情慾》, Hong Kong: Hong Kong Women Christian Council, 2000.
Mak, Hoi Shan Anson, Kwong,Danial, Chow, Wah Shan, (eds.), Coming Out of Hong Kong Tongzhi 《香港同志站出來》, Hong Kong: Tongzhi Studies, 1995.
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