[Video Essay] Synecdoche, HONGKONG

The moving compartment is a synecdoche of Hong Kong. 

Floorplan

Shooting Script/ Story Board:

Subtitles/ Narration: 

The Coronavirus suffocates our city. As the urban artery, subway is one of the most efficient commute mediums between destinations. However, it also expedites the spread of many viruses, before people are awared. As part of the crowd, she enters the subway, becomes one of the infected.  

Since then whenever taking subway, she starts to leave a pack of masks at the seat, hoping to shield everyone that leaves the subway with a mask. She is relentless, disregard if or not crisis is dissolved. 

Here she comes again, waiting for the next train under the flickering light, as if counting the unknown. 

She knows that resilience will be rewarded, in front of the darkness that the subway goes through, hope is waiting there.  

Background music:

Franz Schubert – Trio In E-Flat, Op. 100 (Excerpt)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rshs_rSdL-M 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5-LqwUHTaM

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jh8dU_Se170 

12.The Mist by Frank Darabont

 

(Iris Yeung  3035575431)

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