Zolima City Mag

2 weeks ago | zolimacitymag.com | Christopher DeWolf

Italy is Hong Kong’s partner for this year’s Business of Design Week. Over the next several months, we’ll be introducing you to some of the designers and projects that will be highlighted at the BODW Summit in December. This month, we’re starting with an icon of Italian design: Michele De Lucchi. For someone who lives in the Italian countryside and works in Milan, Michele De Lucchi is no stranger to Hong Kong.

2 weeks ago | zolimacitymag.com | Christopher DeWolf

Bianca Tse doesn’t remember anything about the Kowloon Walled City from when she was growing up in 1980s Hong Kong. But when she finally learned about it, years after it had been demolished, there was something immediately familiar about the infamous informal settlement. Now, nearly 20 years later, Tse has created an entire world of AI-generated images inspired by the Walled City, including an extraordinary collaboration with renowned Walled City photographer Greg Girard.

1 month ago | zolimacitymag.com | Christopher DeWolf

Like many of Hong Kong’s other historic cemeteries, the city’s Jewish burial ground is in Happy Valley – but not where you’d expect it to be. Instead of on the hillside overlooking the race course, alongside the Catholic, Protestant, Muslim, Hindu and Parsi cemeteries, it’s in the upper part of the valley, tucked behind a Buddhist nunnery and overshadowed by the Jockey Club’s towering Shan Kwong Road clubhouse.

1 month ago | zolimacitymag.com | Elizabeth Kerr

“I don’t mind making bad films,” admits director Trevor Choi Hong-ying as he relaxes on the plush sofa in his shared Wan Chai office. That’s not to say he isn’t trying: Choi has seen two fully or partially self-funded features films hit theatres in Hong Kong in the last six months – Fresh Off Markham (敗走麥城) last winter and Smashing Frank (搗破法蘭克), released in mid-April. “I would say both these films were like homework. It’s practice for me. That’s how I learn,” says Choi.

1 month ago | zolimacitymag.com | Rob Garratt

There were two careers mapped out for Sang Jijia from before he was even born – and neither dancer nor choreographer was in the stars. As one of two boys born to a Tibetan family in a small mountainous village in Xiahe County, in the central Chinese province of Gansu, tradition dictated that he should become either a monk or a translator. “We have just the main street,” Sang remembers of the tiny hometown he was born into in 1973, which his four siblings still call home today.