Hong Kong Film Archive — Attraction in Hong Kong

An interesting specialist attraction near Sai Wan Ho is the Hong Kong Film Archive, which is managed by the HK Leisure and Culture Services department and is tasked with collecting and conserving Hong Kong films, related artefacts and materials.

Here you can visit a free exhibition hall, featuring exhibitions rotate throughout the year. The present showing - 'Remembrance of the Avant-garde', showcases 20th century motion cameras, equipment and other film making memorabilia. You can also watch a short documentary describing the making of battle scene in old days. This film clip is in Chinese (with English subtitles).

The Hong Kong Archive also houses a screening room, showing old cinema films, mostly in Cantonese. Tickets can be purchased directly at the box office or at the URBTIX ticketing website. You can visit the Hong Kong Film Archives website to see current screening schedule.

Another interesting historic exhibition in this area of Hong Kong Island is the Fireboat Alexander Grantham Exhibition Gallery in nearby Quarry Bay Park, just 5-10 minute walk from the Archive.

Overall, this is a neat attraction for those with an interest in old Hong Kong made films. The exhibition room can be visited in 15-20 minutes and is something worth poking your head in for a quick look if you find yourself in this area...

Hong Kong Film Archive is a museum all about Hong Kong movies, and here include cinema and a tiny exhibition hall here. The exhibition hall always show case of movie related exhibitions, but as the hall in tiny, usually it not come with tons of information, and only take you 15 - 30 mins there. And as the location is not good, not many visitors here, so you can enjoy your time here without being disturbed.

Cityscape in Sight and Sound: This exhibition is interesting, it's showing the old Hong Kong buildings from the movies. They only show buildings and scene from movies in old time, but only few words about how the buildings related to the people. This topic can be rich on information, but the exhibition...

It's a tiny museum, I came here for a screening. Great movie but the terrible audience manner was a nightmare. I'm not sure if the general audience here are 95% elderly or I was just unlucky. The elderly who sat right beside me.. the one on my left kept picking things from her face then flicked away with her fingers throughout the whole time!! Another one to my right sat with his legs spread so widely that he should've bought the ticket of my seat. The worst of all.. the mysterious disgusting scents that kept appearing every 3...