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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The Signature of Documentary – thoughts from Open City London Documentary Festival 2011

 
 - Linda C.H. LAI
 

Photo by Linda Lai: Open City London Documentary Festival's opening event, June 16, 2011

To me, documentary is a total event that cannot be fully considered without taking into account the intention of the maker, relation between the maker and the documented, the use of the work in its life-span of distribution and circulation, the conversations it invokes, and finally other on-going discourses in which it works out its politics.

Textbook discussion on documentary film has often been caught up in issues of evidence of truth rooted in the camera’s being there and the photographic image’s indexical transparency. The shift to clarification of documentary as a genre, thus its visual and narrative practice as conventions, often results in reinforcing the acceptance of documentary works’  narrative constructed-ness …

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