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Cat Links 2024 Blog, Final Video Essay

[Field-Homework 3] Fast City-MTR passage

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Title: Fast City-MTR passage Director: Wang You, 3036260278 Video Link:   The Theme Hong Kong, being known as a fast-developing city, has experienced huge urban development since the 19th century. Corinne Tiry, an architect researcher, pointed out in a review that the railway infrastructure plays an essential role in future development. Cities can “redevelop” through mass transit”. [1] The construction of the Mass Transit Railway, or the MTR contributes much to urban development in Hong Kong. It started its first passenger service in 1979 with only nine stations. However, up until 2022, there are already 99 stations, connecting the corners

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[Reading Response 2]Communal After-Living: Asian Ghosts and the City

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This article focuses on Asian ghosts lingering in apartments in cities and explains them in three themes, including how they exist in contiguous community, how they relate to loneliness and isolation, and how they act as a representation of failure of macro goals. The author uses typical examples from different regions. The saying ‘we are the ghosts’ constantly occurs in the article. Besides talking about ghosts themselves, we, the human beings, are also the ‘living ghosts’, living in the ‘coffin-like’ apartments isolatedly and undertaking the burden due to some macro reasons like financial issues. I feel the same for what

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Cat Links Uncategorized, Workshop 3: Designing the Video Essay

[Mood board]-Fast City-Wang You

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Description: I choose MTR passage as a representation to show ‘fast city’. It reveals overall a down atmosphere in the fast city, with the crowds pushing and squeezing together in the underground railway station.  The air is heavy, so as people. People are rushing into different directions, like the tangled wires without any orders. “The crowd is as dense as the stars in the sky, but the stars are also as distant as the crowds”. In the fast-paced city, people don’t really know each other, even themselves.  

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

Question for Director Chen

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I noticed there are different colors of light spots throughout the film, some of them even covered a half of the frame. Are they aimed to create a sense of ‘dream’? Also, may I ask why the background is set in Cambodia? Does this place imply anything related to the plot itself? Besides, I have watched a film focused on ‘dreams’ before. And how the director of that film created a sense of dream was through filters, like higher saturation of color and a blurring effect. Have you thought of those effects when making this film? Wang You

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[Field Trip Report]

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Link to podcast: https://youtu.be/LqHAkbYQ2V8 Transcript: Albert: Good evening, everyone. Welcome to join us! I’m Albert. Yuna: I’m Yuna. Albert: Today we will focus on Dai Pai Dong in Hong Kong. Since the reopening of. Temple Street Night Market on December 15, 2023, business has surged. The proportion of visitors to Temple Street has steadily increased. However, some restaurants in north Temple Street have reported a turndown in their usual customer flow due to the night market’s popularity. As we delve into this issue, we’ll explore the underlying causes and potential solutions for the traditional Dai Pai Dong culture facing constraints

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Cat Links Lecture 4: Everyday Spaces as Narrative

[Reading Response] Cuts through Hong Kong

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In the article, the author Eunice Seng analyses the film In the Mood for Love by pointing out its usage of both “spatial and temporal collage” to capture Hong Kong’s transitory feature. “Spatial” is represented by different places shot in the film such as stairs and corridors, while “temporal” can be seen from the changing cheongsams of Su Li-zhen, one of the protagonists, to show changes from 1962 to 1966 in Hong Kong. Besides the opinions in the article that focus on the frames, I also want to emphasize how the film shows transitory feature with the title of the

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