[VIDEO ESSAY] Private City

  SYNOPSIS, THEME, SETTING & COMPONENTS Ours, but not ours. Following a busker on a performing-space scouting journey, competing for private space on Mong Kok’s pedestrian bridges, “Private City” investigates the city’s public space appropriation, privatization, and contestation, as well as how such micro-manifestations of guerilla urbanism impact circulation and the rhythm of the city. Footbridges – 1,043 pieces of shared urban infrastructure across Hong Kong (Highways Departments, 2022), are frequented by commuters to efficiently traverse through this walkable, multi-layered city (Ho et al., 2022). As De Certeau (1984) argued, possibilities organized by the spatial order are actualized by occupants

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[Final Video Essay] Park:Info City

3035983756 Jasmine Zhang Ziqi Park (particularly promenade areas in western and central district) – Info city Research question: how does the space of promenade serve as the production of ideology in a capitalist society? https://youtu.be/r-69nEhyXEc Research method – By referring to the central arguments of Lefebvre Henri in his book The Production of Space, “Every social space is the outcome of a process with many aspects and many contributing currents……,” in other words, we can understand that city is a production of ideology, culture, and history. I attempt to employ this idea to examine the living environment of Hong Kong,

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[Video Essay] Stairwell- Public City_3036075130

  Stairwell—Public City Directed and narrated by Zhu Runze Leon 3036075130 Theme and aim: The theme of the video essay is “Stairwell—-Public City ” and I aim to investigate the role of stairwells in daily lives, particularly in buildings or apartments in Hong Kong. I did not put much of my focus on stairwells seen in public sites and spaces, as exterior public functions such as MTR passages and emergency evacuation sites. However, I focus on how buildings and apartments serve as semi-public places that are public to private residents but at the same time private to public citizens. Hence,

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[Video Essay] Fading City – Playgrounds in Hong Kong

  Fading City – Video by Cheng Sze Yuet Ashlyn 3036109175 Video script As a kid, the best part of the day is to get home from school, rush to the playground and spend the entire afternoon playing under the sun till I reluctantly return home when I get too many mosquito bites. When you walk into a playground, you would expect to see kids having fun or even fighting to use the equipment as playgrounds are built for this sole purpose – to entertain kids. However, with the popularization of electronic gadgets, electronic devices are becoming the new form

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[Field Report] Young and Dangerous

Greetings to everyone. This report will be about the movie Young and Dangerous. We’ve all dreamed of being a gangster, haven’t we? No matter it is from watching related movies, or films or just knowing them in daily life. I must admit, watching the thrilling scenes of the gangsters in movies does give me goosebumps. Young and Dangerous, as introduced later, is one of the movies you will be looking for when it comes to audacious, ferocious crime excitement. Furthermore, this movie manifested Hong Kong’s architecture which I will introduce later is what makes this movie a classic of the

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[Field Report] The Mad World

The Mad World is a film based on a news story directed by Wong Chun in 2016. The film only took two weeks to shoot, spent only HK$2 million, and won the First Hong Kong Feature Film Initiatives. In an attempt to arouse the public’s attention towards mentally disordered people, the film shows, from the perspective of a former psychopath patient, how hard it is for them to re-enter society no matter how normal they are and how many efforts they’ve made.   The movie started with the discharge of Ah Tung, a bipolar disorder patient who was sentenced to

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[Field Report] Young and Dangerous

Good afternoon! Hi there and thanks for checking out our podcast. I’m Ting, and I am Hazel. We are going to talk about the film “young and dangerous,” which was shot by Andrew Lau and based on a popular comic book series “Teddy boy” in 1996. He depicted the nineties gang life of Hong Kong, where the protagonist Chen Haonan was expelled after being duped by the antagonist Kun into sleeping with his best friend’s girl. Kun then kills Haonan’s father figure, brother Bee, seizes control of the gang and publicly humiliates Haonan at Bee’s funeral. The climax of the

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[Field Report] As Tears Go By (1988) by Wong Kar-Wai

1.. 中僑國貨 Chung Kiu Commercial Building in MONG KOK 2. Tung Tin Cafe 3. Tong Cai, Sai Ying Choi in MONG KOK  4. 貝澳 PUI O IN LANTAU ISLAND   5. Interior of the Protagonist’s house Link to the Audio Podcast & Transcript: Field Work Report   Field Report Transcript Film: As Tears Go By (1988) by Wong Kar-Wai E: Hi! And welcome to our podcast looking at the sites and architecture in the film As Tears Go By by Wong Kar-Wai. My name is Elinor- J: And my name is Judy, and of particular interest to us was the contrasting

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[Field Report] Johnny English Reborn (2011)

Intro: Martin: Today, we are gonna examine the film we selected, Johnny English, which is filmed in 2011. We select this film not only because we are fans of Rowan Atkinson, the main actor of Johnny English, but also how the production team shot the film, I have never seen a movie that is making me feel like it’s funny and making me nervous at the same time  So why don’t we jump right into it?   Question: Could you please break down a bit for the audience of what the story is about Dave: so, we’re going to divide

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[Field Report] City Of Glass (1998)

    #Introduction: Welcome to You Zhou and Minwoo’s field trip report. Today, we are going to talk about a film which is called “City of Glass”. To start the report, we should make a general introduction about this film. This film shows a struggling love story between a man and a woman. Their love story begins at the period of their university life. Specifically, their university was the University of Hong Kong. Because this film was taken in HKU, the film seemed very familiar from our point of view. #Architecture related to the film: 1: Lady Ho Tung Hall

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