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Hong Kong customs and traditions: an evening of video works from CUHK students’ visual research

May 6 (Sunday), 7:30pm @ FPC

‘Visual Research Methods’ students at CUHK explored aspects of Hong Kong everyday life in their final works with a theme ‘Hong Kong customs and traditions’ in Spring 2012. As a result, a number of them produced video footage of their chosen topic, also experiencing the method of videography for the first time. In the spirit of cultural studies, the students were challenged to engage in participaroty research and aim to establish an equal rapport with their interviewees. 

This screening features four such works and covers topics ranging from consumer culture to traditional Shanghainese barbershops. …

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Evans Chan’s ‘Two or Three Things about Kang Youwei’ 康有為二三事 (2012) & ‘Bauhinia’ 紫荊 (2002)

Press Screening:

Friday, 7:00pm, April 13, 2012 @ Floating Projects Collective / 放映後設有酒會。

Press Screenings of 2 works by director Evans Chan 陳耀成

《紫荊》Bauhinia (2002)

Hong Kong, color, drama, in Chinese and English, with English and Chinese subtitles. 50 min. Commissioned by RTHK/香港電臺電視台邀約作品 (*Hong Kong premiere香港首映)

 紐約2001 年。一位洋名為「紫荊」(李珺)的香港女留學生,正製作一部有關中國一子政策的記錄片。9/11恐怖襲擊突然發生,她剪接室的窗下是巳夷為平地的世貿中心。而她剛有了身孕…夏威夷電影節的Christopher Claxton 形容此片「泯滅了虛構與記實,創造出一個同時魘着片中人及觀眾的時空,令這不加渲染的9/11後的紐約更貼近人的生存的困境」。

In the aftermath of September 11, film student Bauhinia (Jun Li) attempts to edit her thesis project on female infanticide brojght about by China’s one child policy in a New York room overlooking the wrechkage left by the fallen Twin Towers, while faced with an unexpected …

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Documentary Animation ‘Ever-changing Monument’ by Lilian Fu


傅詠欣 Lilian Fu’s latest work Ever-changing Monument is a documentary animation funded by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council (ADC).

Public Screening:
November 26, 2011 7:00p.m. at FPC

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Ever-changing Monument

7 minutes / 2011 / Hong Kong/United Kingdom
A work of animated documentary by Lilian Fu 傅詠欣

In this project, I want to explore the process of changing states of mind and memories through animation. The concept is to reproduce images of a video frame by frame interceded by paintings, inserts of texts and sounds.

A video-recorded interview with my grandmother in 2007 was part of an early exercise in visual ethnographic research. Ever since she died two years ago, other than her talking head footage, there has not been much left for our recollection of her, be it objects, photos, or other video documents. Hence there are many gaps …

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Fung Moon Kee: making you mine 小號大造馮滿記

COMING UP this Saturday (September 10, 2011), 2:30p.m. at FPC.

video still from Fung Moon Kee

 

Fung Moon Kee: making you mine  號大造馮滿記 / 40 minutes / 2011 / Hong Kong /

A work of visual ethnography by Tiffany Yu 余智敏

For over a year now, I have been seeing the 85-to-be Lam Chi-yim, manager of a traditional embroidery shop in Yaumatei. I interviewed him, photographed him, and we chat.

Mr. Lam’s story could …

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Pianovel: I play the piano to play you a song / an ADC funded project by Jolene Mok

August 8, 2011 (Monday) / 7:30 – 9:00 pm @ FPC

Pianovel: I play the piano to play you a song (30 mins / 2011 / Jolene Mok)

“Through looking into the learning path and practice process of five children, I (re-)study piano playing from an alien angle, to see, through the camera, in what ways piano is being played.” 

The screening of the video work will be followed by discussion and sharing.

*This project is supported by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council’s Emerging …

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