Wong Kar-wai Project

When I began my exploration of films by Wong Kar-wai, 5 years back, I discovered an online community of Wong Kar-wai aficionados and the pet calender project. There were different themes for different years and members of the community who volunteered for the project will create a desktop calender with Wong Kar-waiseque images which they may have photographed or created. I was clueless about photoshop but managed to do my part for 2008 and 2009.

"The flags are still, no winds blow, it is the heart of man that is in tumult." 2008's theme was a calender with a line from any of Wong's films. I chose the Buddhist quote that open Ashes of Time, corresponding with an image of a ruined ancient Buddhist stupa I took in India.

"Thinking About You" 2009's theme was a title or lyrics of a song used in a Wong Kar-wai film. I thought the haunting Taiwanese-Hokkien ballad suits this image I took while exploring Little India at night.

Remains my favourite soundtrack from all of Wong's films. Perfidia takes second place and California Dreaming next.