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Reading response 2 “In Search of the Ghostly in Context” Ma Yin Lam Minnie

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Reading response 2 In Search of the Ghostly in Context         Ma Yin Lam Minnie “In Search of the Ghostly in Context” is a book chapter in the monography “Fruit Chan’s Made in Hong Kong” written by a late local scholar Esther Cheung, who conducted a sophisticated analysis of the surreal characteristics of this low-budget movie in terms of their formations and purposes. Apart from public housing development, she also demonstrated the influences of socioeconomic context in cinema production. I was highly impressed by the argument of Cheung “Made in Hong Kong in fact contains a number of shots depicting the

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Mood Board “Looking at our city through the gaze of craved patterns’ gates”(Workshop 3)

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Four photos are overlapped on the mood board to create an atmosphere of nostalgia. I close up the gate with craved patterns and put it in the centre. Therefore, people can quickly catch up the main idea of this mood board is gates with craved patterns. The background is the street of Mong Kok, and it surprisingly matches the “Man Shing Street” I added previously. The reason behind this is that I want to bring out a message: gates with craved patterns are the street aesthetics in Hong Kong.  Along with the mailboxes on the left side, this mood board

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“Moving House” reflection

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The film illustrates some “invisible” and “unclean” spaces such as cemeteries which usually tend to be situated in remote places in urban cities. This can be another kind of “housing” for those who died; these spaces have to be moved or even demolished to “make way” for residential areas or other redevelopment projects. Apart from revealing the density of Singapore, the film also inspires us to rethink these “invisible” and “unclean” spaces/ how we interpret them/ how they symbolize some “taboo” issues we used to not discuss in public such as death.

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Question and comment on the film screening

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Director Chen, Thank you for your film. I would like to ask what do you think the difference in shooting in the urban spaces and suburb areas? Also, I am very appreciate  the usage of lighting in the film. One scene that impressed me that the lighting keep changing in the home of the main characters. This evokes our emotion of uncertainty; it also symbolises the relationship between two main characters. Besides, I also inspired by the natural lighting that used in the film.

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Fieldwork Report Wong Siu Wing, Ma Yin Lam

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Field trip and fieldwork report Transcript Topic: A documentary photography of the gate with craved patterns in Hong Kong Wong Siu Wing 3036184204, Ma Yin Lam 3036189008 Key themes: 1) The relationship between architectures and human touch in the old Hong Kong (1950-1960) and the present  2) Street aesthetics 3) Everyday streetscape 4) Critique of nostalgia culture Video link:https://youtu.be/71oivjjJ_Hc?si=soCXdnljYN6CZfDU Mark: Today we are going to talk about the vanishing gates with craved patterns in Hong Kong through our documentary photography. We try to show the real-side of these gates, which is a crucial part of architecture to story-tell their cultural significance

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Reading response 1 “Urban cinema and the cultural identity of Hong Kong”

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“Urban cinema and the cultural identity of Hong Kong” is a chapter written by a local signature late writer Leung Ping Kwan in 2000, examining how the unique cultural identity of Hong Kong people construct and/or being shaped through local films from 1950s to 2000s. By using various cinematic languages and urban spaces as a spatial trope, movies usually render specific ideologies that are intertwined with social context. “Leaving the Movie Theatre” in the lesson 1 describes a movie theatre as a heterotopia which can evoke audiences’ fantasy by the overall cinematic settings; likewise, this chapter discusses movies can shape

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