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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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Walking fields & the critique of flâneuse - preview notes #6 for FPC's 1st exhibition

- Kimburley Choi

Video stills from Linda Lai's…

Trespassing and a tale of cities…

Trespassing world cities 《搖擺過路人》(2005) is a composite of Linda Lai’s tourist-video-style travelogues. The opening is a low angle shot showing a woman walking, and the camera seems to be in a bag; then it cuts to the tile of New Delhi in 2004, the pan shot of the bridge in New York City in 2001, the tracking shots of Frankfurt city space in 2001, Taipei in 2003, and New Delhi in 2004. The intercuts between tracking shots of these three cities and the following elevators shots of different cities indicate the similarities of these “modern” cities and we (the videomaker and the audiences) cannot easily recognize their differences.

Although ethnographers nowadays acknowledge the constructedness of ethnographic fields, Schneider (2008) argues that …

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Documentary Animation ‘Ever-changing Monument’ by Lilian Fu

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

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

Talking head questions: inductive and interdisciplinary

Walking fields & the critique of flâneuse - preview notes #6 for FPC's 1st exhibition

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