โThe world is in a brilliant place right now,โ Rattanamol Singh says sarcastically.
โWe live in deeply imperfect times,โ he continues, more sombrely, โbut what happens is that, underneath the surface, people from various disciplines are creating and talking to each other and finding ways to tell their stories through different mediums.โ
The search for such people took the Los Angeles-based filmmaker to Hong Kong recently, where he filmed a 40-minute โvisual essayโ.
It will become the first episode of a documentary series called Patterns and Contrasts, which will be released on YouTube in early June.
For Singh, who is of Punjabi-Sikh descent and grew up in the United States, the changes Hong Kong has seen since the 2019 anti-government protests and the introduction of the national security law (NSL) in 2020 are similar to those happening in his country.