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Cat Links 2024 Blog, Final Video Essay

[Field-Homework 3]: Hidden City: Man Ying Street, Man Wah Complex, Jordan

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Link to Video: https://youtu.be/b3XqEH7yqmc?si=6TICFz2gZmgA6lob   Hidden City: Man Ying Street, Man Wah Complex, Jordan This video’s theme is ‘Hidden City’, focusing on the subject of a closed-off shopfront on Man Ying Street, Jordan. With the Man Wah Complex being announced for redevelopment, it is crucial that we focus on these neglected stores within the site. Upon interview with owners and footage from filming, the space has its gate shut and is used for storage of car tyres. This sealed-off storage space was chosen to reflect the theme of ‘Hidden City’, with my attempt to shed light on the neglected, unseen

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Cat Links 2024 Blog, Lecture 6: Housing Stories

[Reading Response] Ancuta, K

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In Ancuta’s article, ghosts in Asian societies are portrayed to coexist with the dead, living in apartments surrounded by cramped urban densities. I was interested in the concept of the “living ghost”, where individuals living in modern Metropolis are alienated, and how failed dreams of economic success through migration turn individuals into “ghosts”. I’m also fascinated by the interplay between the “living ghost” and “dead ghost”.  ‘The Promise’ focuses on a Bangkok story of two siblings from a bankrupt developer family, both swearing to commit suicide. One sibling commits suicide, dies and becomes a physical ghost. Meanwhile, her sister broke

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Cat Links 2024 Blog, Workshop 3: Designing the Video Essay

[Mood Board]: “Hidden City” Chan Hiu To Max

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CCHU9034 Moodboard (Moodboard attached in this link). The goal/attempt in this moodboard is to show a deep pocket alleyway in the neighbourhood environment in Jordan, Kowloon – focusing on how these transition spaces between two streets are often neglected and hidden. The moodboard also attempts to show how a change in natural environment will change the conditions of the alleyway as well.

Cat Links 2024 Blog, Lecture 6: Housing Stories

Lecture 6: Moving House Reflection

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The documentary ‘Moving Houses’ was interesting as it discussed the limited nature in Singapore’s housing system, with “moving, building and resettling” as a normal “way of life”. The film also highlights an extremely tragic situation, where even the dead are forced to relocate due to land scarcity. Chan Hiu To Max (3036137134)

Cat Links 2024 Blog, Workshop 1: Building Sets, Spaces & the City + Costumes, Characters & Urban Situations

Workshop 2 Exercise (Chan Hiu To Max)

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The first image focuses on establishing the scene of a rainy night, specifically in a street corner of a shop (the mood is rather gloomy). Meanwhile, the second image reiterates the depressing/sad atmosphere, with the man on the street alone and in a dark silhouette. Link for Image One: https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwallhaven.cc%2Fw%2Fjxq5z5&psig=AOvVaw0TKpPXt9Ea–eywnrsm0l1&ust=1711014689651000&source=images&cd=vfe&opi=89978449&ved=0CBIQjRxqFwoTCLj1-efMgoUDFQAAAAAdAAAAABAE Link for Image Two: https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fdillieodigital.wordpress.com%2F2014%2F03%2F20%2Fstand-in-the-rain%2F&psig=AOvVaw1jaDoTojvaeGc-4KzdL9Za&ust=1711014763021000&source=images&cd=vfe&opi=89978449&ved=0CBIQjRxqFwoTCIj1q-fMgoUDFQAAAAAdAAAAABAE Chan Hiu To Max (3036137134)

Cat Links 2024 Blog, Fieldwork

[Fieldwork Report] Chan Hiu To Max & Tan Yu Hahn

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Link to Video Podcast: https://youtu.be/qvIf_NJE0xA?si=RiCMWhQ-KuHDi_sV Transcript for the Podcast Max: Welcome to our podcast. I am Max  Hahn: And I am Hahn.  Max: Our group is exploring a second-hand antiques collection shop located on Man Wai Street, Jordan. The shop is within the Man Wah Complex Buildings, a group of eight private housing structures built between 1964-1970. The shop we have chosen serves as a place for individuals to sell their second-hand items (for example vinyls or CD’s) to the shop owner, in exchange for some money. In this video, we aim to explain why this shop will vanish within

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Cat Links 2024 Blog, Lecture 2: Filming the Asian City

[Reading Response] Leo Ou-Fan Lee

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Lee’s article explores the rise of 1930s Shanghai’s cinema, film culture and notion of “femininity”, as a result of integration with Western film approaches from Hollywood. I believe 1930s Chinese film and its surrounding culture can be characterised by the concepts of “modernity” and “hybridity”.  The 1930s saw a period of modernisation in Shanghai, with the introduction of foreign-styled movie theatres, and film serving as a commodity prompting new entertainment lifestyles. Written literature and print culture influenced by the West emerged, helping the development of film and the creation of an urban lifestyle of modernity. Movie magazines like Liangyou appeared,

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