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Cat Links 2022 Blog, Final Video Essay, Uncategorized

[Video Essay] Slow City

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Slow City  – Parks We tend to think of an aging society as slow or at odds with the times. Especially in a “fast” city like Hong Kong, people are immersed in a day-to-day cycle. An aging community like Sham Shui Po is increasingly out of tune with the city. In this video, I filmed in the park downstairs from my house, trying to discover the people and things in this “slow” park in the corner of Sham Shui Po. As you can see in the video, the people in the park are mainly middle-aged and elderly people. They tend

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Cat Links Lecture 8: Sci-fi Technologies

[Reading Response: Carl Abbott]

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In science fiction movies and novels, ‘migratory’ cities are often built on the basis of real immigrant cities like NewYork. These stories are often set in a post-disaster context, and due to issues such as resource scarcity, people often build cities in a mobile way to seek resources or avoid disasters. Therefore, stories in such a wasteland worldview tend to revolve around survival, and because of the frequent wars between people for resources, such films often bring out discussions of human nature and future. In the films “Mortal engine” and “Snow piercer”, both stories are based on moving cities, but

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Cat Links 2022 Blog, Lecture 6: Housing Stories

[READING RESPONSE] Joseph Rosa

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One of the points that impressed me the most in the article is how the architecture in the movie shows the social situation. For example, in the 1930s and 1940s, the United States faced a severe Great Depression, many people faced unemployment and bankruptcy due to the economic depression, which made it difficult for them to gain a sense of security in modern cities. Therefore, movies of that era (such as “The Enchanted Cottage”) can often separate people from modern cities, combine traditional happiness with traditional architecture, so it can reflect the problems brought about by fast economic development and

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Cat Links 2022 Blog, Fieldwork, FIELDWORK

[Field Report] PARASITE

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PARASITE, DIR. BONG JOON-HO (2019) Semi-basement, classic residential building style in Korea Parasite is a movie directed by Bong Joon-ho. This movie tells the story of what happened between Kim Ki-taek’s family and Park’s family. Due to the failure of business and unemployment, Kim Ki-taek’s family has to live in a basement with low rent. In contrast, the Park family is very wealthy. As the Park daughter’s original tutor, a close friend of the Kim son, needs to study abroad, the Kim son got the opportunity to be the tutor of the Park daughter, and the four members of the

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