An artist who migrated from Hong Kong to Germany fulfills a 10-year promise to her brother and wins a prestigious award in the process.
Friendly Liu (artist name) is and self-taught stop-motion creator. Her work “Hong Kong Cafe Let’s Fight Together,” a stop-motion video of a childhood memory scene in a Hong Kong tea shop, won the Best Animation Feature Film Award at the Festival of Animation Berlin in 2018. In an interview with the Epoch Times, Liu says she believes people should appreciate things while they are here and not forget them after they disappear.
In the past few years, Hong Kong’s signature landmarks, like big, bright neon signboards that hung high or decades-old pawnshops, have disappeared. People’s memories are fading away as the city’s charms dissipate. Many long-standing and small shops are forced to close due to old age, regulations, rent hikes, or land development….