port cities

His films intimately explore the history, memory, and cultural layering of port cities, particularly Taipei and Keelung, as spaces where modernity collides with tradition.

He captures Hong Kong's identity as a port city through visually stunning, melancholic narratives about displacement, transience, and the collision of East and West.

His socially conscious films examine working-class life and industrial decline in British port cities, revealing the human cost of economic transformation.