{"id":10589,"date":"2026-02-21T16:30:59","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T15:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelschindhelm.com\/?p=10589"},"modified":"2026-02-25T09:20:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T08:20:58","slug":"film-about-hong-kongs-art-scene-and-the-museum-m-back-on-the-tv-screen-3sat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelschindhelm.com\/en\/film-about-hong-kongs-art-scene-and-the-museum-m-back-on-the-tv-screen-3sat\/","title":{"rendered":"Film about Hong Kong’s art scene and the museum M+ back on the TV screen (3Sat)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The film will be broadcasted on 3Sat on February 28 10.20PM.
\nTrailer: Trailer In the Mood for Art<\/a><\/p>\n

Synopsis: Hong Kong in March 2023. Three years of pandemic lockdown and a failed political revolution have left deep scars, as has a draconian security law enforced by the central government. Many people have left their city or face an uncertain future.
\nBut there is a spirit of optimism. In the art scene, for example. The Museum for Visual Culture M+ has opened after about ten years of construction. Designed by the star architects Herzog&deMeuron from Basel, it is one of the most important museum buildings of the 21st century. The most important collection comes from another Swiss, the entrepreneur and patron Uli Sigg, who assembled the world’s most important collection of Chinese contemporary art and donated a substantial part of it to Museum M+ in 2012.
\nThe film accompanies the architects and the collector on their first visit to the city together since the museum was completed. In just 12 months since opening, the museum has already counted over 2 million visitors, exclusively Hong Kongers due to the lockdown.
\nConversations and encounters with the director Suhanya Raffel, the chief curator Doryan Chong as well as staff, gallery owners and artists and the intrepid journalist Enid Tsui tell a chequered success story around the question of the role of this museum in the still hot debate about the future and identity of Hong Kong.
\nAt the same time, the film provides an unusually intimate insight into the city’s newly forming art scene. After many well-known artists have left the city for political reasons and live in the diaspora, a very young new generation of artists is emerging, who are not letting security law and bureaucracy get them down and are claiming their own new voice in the subcultural underground. It is on them, the artists of tomorrow, that the hope rests that the global museum M+ will continue to show exciting art from its own city in the future.<\/p>\n

Cast:<\/p>\n

Enid Tsui<\/p>\n

Bernard Chan<\/p>\n

Suhanya Raffel<\/p>\n

Lars Nittve<\/p>\n

Jacques Herzog<\/p>\n

Pierre de Meuron<\/p>\n

Tobias Berger<\/p>\n

Ascan Mergenthaler<\/p>\n

Doryun Chong<\/p>\n

Uli Sigg<\/p>\n

Pi Li<\/p>\n

May Fung<\/p>\n

Ringo Lo<\/p>\n

Igor Chan<\/p>\n

Mimi Chun<\/p>\n

Wang Tuo<\/p>\n

Joseph Chen<\/p>\n

Cas Wong<\/p>\n

Production Filmerei GmbH
\nProducer Sven Rufer Luzius M\u00fcller Kaja Ramseier
\nWritten and directed by Michael Schindhelm
\nCinematography: Sven Rufer Luzius M\u00fcller
\nSound Chan Chi Fung
\nEdit Kaja Leonie Ramseier
\nMusic Balz Bachmann
\nYanick Herzog
\nSounddesign\/Mix Kurt Human
\nJulien Joseph
\nColor grading Luzius M\u00fcller
\nGraphics Luzius M\u00fcller Lucas Cesar Vetsch
\nTranscription Peter Jud
\nIn Collaboration with Schweizer Fernsehen SRF and 3sat
\nSRF Barbara Seiler
\nUrs Augsburger
\n3sat Nicole Pallecchi<\/p>\n

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