A collaborated work by Meisi Wang, Glary Wu Hoi Yan, Edwin Chuk Yin Man,
Verna Kuutti, Mariana Pote, Lia Schmieder
A project about Collecting, Interpreting, Narrating.
How to negotiate with different people from different backgrounds (with the language barrier)?
how should we express and rephrase our ideas or questions?
The final work of $100 Story is actually a stream of different means and styles of narration and a mixture of thoughts and reflections from different experiences and sides.
Video 12'20''
(please hear the stories below while watching)
The taxi drivers are a perfect emblem for the city of Hong Kong.
People and locations are changing faster and faster, but what remains is the entrepreneurial spirit.
The will to make a living, the will to make profit.
The taxi driver represents the layman whose only wish is to have enough stability to continue making money. The drivers' voice is the voice of the people that even politicians are willing to listen.
Everything can be bought and sold in this city, so we applied a similar method: 100 dollars for the ride, stories about the city for us. The journey took us to places that surprised, moved, bored and confused us. We let the drivers show us how they see the city, and then their stories and the rides became our Hong Kong story. A story that cannot be told one way.
(Text edited by Verna Kuutti)