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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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‘The Street of Crocodiles’ and its enigma

- Lilian Fu

Inspired by Czech animator Jan Švankmajer and other absurdist artists like Kafka and Bruno Schulz, the Brothers Quay has a long lineage with surrealism and the use of puppet stop-motion. The duet remains two of the unsurpassed animators in the world for its original vision and techniques.

You would not find it easy to catch a clue about exactly what is happening no matter how many times you watch Brothers Quay’s The Street of Crocodiles (1986). However, the riddle of the world in this work is not difficult to solve because all answers are hidden elusively in objects and gestures. The artists’ ‘camera work’ penetrates beneath the surface of everyday life and the façade of ordinary objects. Rusted stews, dust, ruined dolls, …

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