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[Field-Homework 3] Disappearing City: Fenwick Pier, Wan Chai

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  Video Link: https://youtu.be/irbdSJ6k73I Introduction The demolition work of Fenwick Pier began in February 2022 and is still continuing to this day. This photographic stills video focuses on capturing the Fenwick Pier Fleet Arcade’s appearance before its demolition work. Such photos were taken in late 2021 and early 2022, right before its announced closure and plans for urban redevelopment. The video aims to describe some features and to provide some historical background of the embodiment of colonial Hong Kong. Fenwick Pier, which opened in 1974 British Hong Kong, met its end on 11 February 2022. It was originally built by

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[Reading Response2] In Search of the Ghostly in Context : Esther M. K. Cheung

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The reading mentions the blend of reality and surrealism in Fruit Chan’s film Made In Hong Kong, which alters the audience’s sense of reality. In the movie, he defamiliarises Hong Kong and creates a “spectral city” instead. This style differs from Fruit Chan’s other films, which usually have more elements of realism. Moreover, the reading mentions Fruit Chan’s another ghostly city film “Finale in Blood”. In that film, “ghostly” is not all about including real spectres and ghosts. Instead, he uses “ghostly” as a transformative tool to defamiliarise the city, to give the film an uncanniness and uneasiness. The analysis

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