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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The Squatting Urchins…

THE TALE OF SQUATTING URCHINS (150 minutes / 2011 / Terence Chan)
 @ FPC, 2:30pm / Saturday, June 25, 2011

  

   Just a few hours after raw noon.

   Nothing to worry about. 

   No nuisance of metaphor.

   Discard the panicking shrimp.

   Worried minute after minute, I would do the counting. 

   Havent seen you before?

   Neither have I seen anyone yet. 

   Would you pass me some butter ? 

   From where in vacuum plain is the images quilted ? 

   The adjusted musician would tell me all about it. 

   Let them urchins fall tender calculated off the staircase. 

   No animals whatsoever where harmed in the making of this video. 

   Im sick today. . . please,  feel free to have some more.

  - terrence chan

 

 

 

 

 The Tale of Squatting Urchins …

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