Defensive Archetype/ Dystopian Paradigm
Synopsis.
This documentary suggests an emergent discourse of a defensive archetype, “curtain” or aka “wall”. During the event of coronavirus, a sense of isolation and self-defensive is slowly intensifying within ourselves, but apart from the anthropological activities, architecture and infrastructures are also conveying the idea of self-defensive as presented. The documentary renders the wall as an intangible or mobile infrastructure that could be applicable from the various lens, through this media presents Hong Kong via a descending order, from a macroscopíc lens of the victoria urbanscape, then across the streetscape of local markets and daipaidong, then back to one-self. The documentary aimed to convey the fear against the virus as well as the importance of self-defensive and self-awareness these days under extreme circumstances.
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Others are taken by me on either Film Camera, DSLR on vaseline or mirrorless A7riii
BRYAN WONG HON TING
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You’ve successfully utilized the storyboard as an experimentation ground for various visual techniques and also as a thinking process. The storyboard is dynamic and thoughtful. Well done. To explain your narrative better, it might be helpful if the densely layered symbols are further dissected.