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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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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 小號大造馮滿記 / 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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Talking head questions: inductive and interdisciplinary

- Elliot W.Y. LEUNG

FPC Forum: ‘What’s in a Talking Head: narrated selves and event structure”
2010.06.26 / FPC / 2:30-4:30 pm / Linda C.H. LAI

Some belated thoughts…

Absolutely fascinating talk and materials; materials which – as was acknowledged during the presentation – lend itself to so many possible frames of analysis, approaches, and appealable to various knowledge/capital fields (Bourdieu), that an inter-disciplinary analysis becomes an unimaginably arduous endeavour, the success of which, nonetheless, would no doubt do justice to the richness of the theoretical mosaic invoked.

The challenge – or problem, depending on how one sees it – seems to be that ‘talking heads’ as an object of analysis as well as aesthetic gaze crosses so many conceptual boundaries that 10+ very different essays can be conceived, each published in a different journal in a different knowledge/citation field:

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