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Tech-tonic shifts

By Chitralekha Basu | HK EDITION | Updated: 2025-10-17 15:05
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Wong Ping's film, Dear, Can I Give You a Hand? is presented together with wind-up denture-shaped toys strewn on the floor. A character in the film mourns the phasing out of VHS cassette tapes to make way for technologically advanced products. [PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY]

Wong's film illustrates how today, the generation gap is also about the difference between the digitally enabled and the rest. Using his unique visual language — lurid colors, suggestive imagery and human figures reduced to simplified geometrical forms such as cylinders and circles — Wong tells the story of an old man who longs for VHS cassettes. After his digital grave is consigned to cloud storage, his son forgets the password, leaving him in eternal solitude.

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