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(Final assignment) The Vanishing Colours of the Central Star Ferry Pier

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The vanishing colours of the central star ferry pier Youtube link: https://youtu.be/adZYg-kT2YE The central star ferry pier, one of Hong Kong’s most iconic artifacts built in 1890 has long marked itself as a pivotal part of Hong Kong’s identity and urban vibrancy. However, it is apparent that it’s struggling to restore back its original colours due to the detrimental effects of the pandemic. For what used to be an alluring tourist destination packed with people, the building no longer attracts a comparable amount of attention from tourists and locals unlike pre-pandemic. The covid outbreak contributed in hindering street accessibility in

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(Larissa Lai) Reading response 2 – Communal After-Living: Asian Ghosts and the City – Katarzyna Ancuta

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In Katarzyna Ancuta’s Asian Ghosts and the City, Ancuta incorporated a recurring motif of ghosts to signify the lack of raw communal exchanges emphasized in modern day architecture, whereby the intangible forces of political and economic means further reinforced urban isolation. This in turn, resulted in a self imposed effect where we are gradually vanishing into ghosts, too, as we ignore the blatant halt of traditional architecture which makes us subsequent reinforcers of this phenomenon – the asian apartment horror, and accordingly, we are “disappearing away” alongside the traditions that once marked the essence of communal exchanges. Upon reading this

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Cat Links Workshop 3: Designing the Video Essay

(Workshop 3) Mood board: The vanishing colours of the central pier – Larissa Lai

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I plan to showcase the juxtaposition of the current central pier and the traditional central pier to demonstrate the architectural advancement whilst ironically, presenting its potential risks of vanishing. To accentuate this, I decided to implement a grey, black, white and blue colour scheme in representing themes of nostalgia and novelty.

Cat Links Workshop 2: Dreamland Film Screening + Director's Chat

Questions for Director Chen

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What is your central artistic intention for implementing an ambiguous enunciation given that none of the characters seemingly leverages the autonomy to enunciate the narration of the storyline. (at least at the beginning) What message or messages do you intend to convey through this resultant verisimilitude? What are your artistic intentions behind the employment of diegetic sounds rather than immersive soundscapes? What inspired you to incorporate a rather avant garde approach to this film? Conventionally, close up shots are utilised to emanate a sense of intimacy and proximity, however close up shots are employed regularly throughout the film despite the

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Cat Links 2024 Blog, Lecture 1: Architecture, Film & The Modern City

Reading response 1 – Leaving the Movie Theatre by Robert Barthes

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In Ronald Barthes’s Leaving the Movie Theatre, he argues that the hypnosis in a holistic movie theatre experience is achieved through the synergy between the twilight repertoire and the image repertoire. Whereby the spectator possesses the narcissistic tendency to simultaneously identify with the spectacle whilst admiring it, and the anonymity of the dark environment allows the perverse body to indulge in the freedom of modern erotisim. While this may be true, the impact of hypnosis is not guaranteed across all types of films such that the gendered use of film semiotics can significantly affect voyeurism and narcissism (Mulvey, 1975). For

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