Author: Chi HangHung 

Cat Links Final Video Essay, Uncategorized

[Field-Homework 3] Human City

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The Video: Directed by Hung Chi Hang Cast: Markus Wong as Human We, as human beings, experience the city in a very unique way. With modernisation architecture, we utilise space through urbanising the natural environment, resulting in serious impact on the ecosystem. The theme of “Human City” is to reveal the brutality of humans on nature and other species that live together with us. From mass industrialisation to animal violence, even though humans are the most intelligent and cognitive beings on Earth, the ultimate goal of civilisation should be living with nature instead of replacing it with our own territories.

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Cat Links Lecture 8: Sci-fi Technologies, Uncategorized

[Reading Response: Christine Boyer]

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The tension built in a science fiction film is usually based on the real-life concern or the foreseeable dystopian future, thus making us reflect on our actions in real life. The Machine City in the reading attracts my attention on whether it is a future that we want. Le Corbusier once said, ‘A house is a machine for living in.’ Modern architecture in the metropolitan city, such as Hong Kong, are highly functionalist. Making them very similar to the Machine City. Shots of construction sites shown in the film show the rapid and automatic tempo of the city. While the

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Cat Links Lecture 7: Monsters, Materials & Skyscrapers, Uncategorized

[Reading Response: Darrell William Davis]

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Neon lights in a futuristic Hong Kong, extracted from Ghost in the shell(1995), directed by Oshii Mamoru. Hong Kong is a unique place where technologies and cultural symbolism combine, making it the perfect setting for the movie, Ghost in the shell. The movie presents Hong Kong in an unfamiliar way, including both futuristic imaginations(the river transport in urban space, gigantic high-rises) as well as realistic traces of Hong Kong(neon lights, bamboo scaffolding). As Hong Kong is a modern technological city filled with traditional Chinese ethnicity, the location of the movie itself even outshines the stories in visualising the theme of

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Cat Links 2022 Blog, Fieldwork

[FIELDWORK] JOHNNY ENGLISH REBORN, CHUNGKING MANSION

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JOHNNY ENGLISH REBORN, DIR. OLIVER PARKER (2011)            CHUNGKING MANSION, Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong Fisher is assassinated by a killer dressed as an elderly cleaner through the narrow atrium of the Chungking Mansion. The chase scene is extracted from Johnny English Reborn(2011), directed by Oliver Parker. The Johnny English series can be described as a humorous replica of the famous James Bond series, with Mr Bean himself replicating James Bond. As the second film of the sequel, Johnny English Reborn talks about how Johnny English recovers from his failure in the last film and move on

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