Riding With Hong Kong Street Racers
Since I re-acquainted myself with a group of people in the last few weeks due to Harbour Fest. I have had to field a batch of questions about the street racing documentary, “How is it going?” “Are you doing this?” “How Fast do they Race?” and as I speak about what I know, it occurred to me, that just because all the information I have in my mind is now leveled to “Slightly Interesting Stuff I have experienced.” It’s still something that is my knowledge, and privileged information to the public.
I forget how mythical and frightening the whole endeavor was to start of with. I forget it was pretty gutsy of me to go in there and ask to be included, and I forget how bad my spoken Chinese was until I met them.
I forget that on the list of questions I had prepared were simple things like, “How Fast Do you GO?” “Where do you race?” “Do you bet money?” I know all the answers to this now, and as I trapeze deeper and deeper into the life of these people, and the nuances of the sub-culture, mixing in my personal confusion and needs, I had forgotten the basic still needs to be answered. The project maybe don’t have to go as deep as I imagined, it just needs to tell a story.
Riding With Hong Kong Street Racers is Not Even On Hiatus anymore. It’s all systems go.
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