About the film
Vanished Archives is a 2017 Hong Kong documentary film directed by Connie Lo Yan-wai. The documentary explores the 1967 Hong Kong riots in Hong Kong, a crucial yet controversial event in the city's history. Through a four-year process of interviews and archival research, Lo aimed to reconstruct the events, offering perspectives from various individuals who witnessed or participated in the riots.
The film highlights the disappearance of official records related to the event and questions the implications of historical erasure on contemporary Hong Kong society.
From the film's Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA 4.0).