SMIFest Madrid x Hong Kong Emerging Artists Screening aims to promote and support new generation artists, as well as fostering the artistic and cultural exchange between Madrid and Hong Kong. Co-organized by SMIFest Madrid and Videotage, in collaboration with the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong and TAI School of the Arts – Madrid, the programme presents video works by emerging artists from Spain and Hong Kong.

「SMIFest 西班牙動態影像節 x 香港新進藝術家放映」旨在推廣新世代藝術家，並促進兩地的文化藝術交流。節目由SMIFest西班牙動態影像節和錄映太奇合辦，與香港城市大學創意媒體學院及馬德里TAI藝術學院聯手呈獻，展示西班牙和香港新進藝術家的影像作品。

The showcase presents video works by artists from the TAI School of the Arts in Madrid and the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong. Featuring diverse practices and styles, such as animation, visual music, Super8 film, and experimental documentary, the exchange programme highlights young generations’ creative impulses, feelings and speculations in response to the culture and society of the two cities in the twenty twenties.

Date: 1-15.11.2023
Time: 10:00 am – 10:00 pm daily*
Venue: Exhibition Area outside CMC Café , Level 3, Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre, 18 Tat Hong Avenue, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong
Registration is required 2 days in advance: https://forms.gle/VEnyaAm9dGuhAgKb8

*Video works are played continuously on loop.

Artists and Artworks:
Pager Lam – Love is Hurt Trilogy
Sara G. Cortijo – Romeo
Yorki Lee – Drowning
Eva Min – It’s Consuelo
Irene Romero – Alors que nous dansons avec la mort
Cyrus Leung – Exogospel
Saioa Miguel – La Esquina de la Carreter
Nicole Ip –  Crevasse
Tomás Serrano – Madrid Brutal
Lok-Yi Ty – My Bathtub is Linked to the Sea
Alejandro Rodríguez – O Que Queda

Artist Statement:

Pager Lam – Love is Hurt Trilogy
Love and hurt are integral parts of human relationships and self-identity, as the saying “Hell is other people” , a quote from the French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, has inspired the exploration of society’s impact on our inner self. My work explores the complex interplay between love, pain, and life. Drawing inspiration from surrealism, it examines three kinds of basic love that exist in society and relationships: friends, family, and lovers through a collection of experimental animations titled “Bird’s Corpse,” “Eden,” and “The White Mist,”.

Pager Lam was raised in Hong Kong and deeply influenced by Jan Švankmajer and Cristobal León & Joaquín Cociña in her early years. She then studied in Creative Media of City University of Hong Kong and completed her Bachelor of Art degree in 2023. She is interested in exploring surrealism and existentialism. Born with a passion for both visual storytelling and poetry, Pager was fond of expressing her own story in an unique way. Pager’s animation style is characterized by its dreamlike features, evoking emotions in the viewer. Her works often challenge conventional narratives, delving into the depths of the human psyche. Through her works, Lam encourages audiences to reflect on their own existence and ponder the meaning of life.

Sara G. Cortijo – Romeo
María is a 15 years old teenager from Malaga, Kevin, 17. They are a couple, they live in a neighborhood of Malaga and she becomes pregnant. They both decide to go ahead with the pregnancy. Romeo is the name they give their baby.

Sara G. Cortijo has a degree in Journalism from the University of Malaga. She also studied Textual Interpretation at the School of Dramatic Art in Malaga. In 2020, she launched into the audiovisual world with his first short film: Efecto Halo, which she has written, directed and in which she also acts. In early 2021, she has released her first documentary short, La mujer salvaje, selected at the LA Independent Women Film Awards in Los Angeles, at the Madurai International Documentary & Short Film Festival in India and at Blogos de oro.

Yorki Lee – Drowning
When ignorance, loneliness, chaos, and craving fill the brain, what does it feel like to be alive? In a sick society, a sick person arises. This person may be you and I. In the story, the interaction between the lonely girl and the plant, the weird delusion, and the incomprehensible desire explore the feeling of being alive. The word “drowning” means the girl couldn’t feel anything in her life, and she gets drowning in her delusion. I used 2D animation to present the inner world of the little girl and describe her mysterious delusion journey.

Yorki Lee is a Hong Kong-based animator, who enjoys exploring themes of love and loneliness in the works, and hopes that readers can find a corner of their own within the creations.

Eva Min – It’s Consuelo
A “mockumentary” that traces the meandering life of Consuelo, a former actress of the “destape”, from her glory years to her monastic life as an old lady (although still quite shameless).

Eva Min Pérez is a director based in Madrid, Spain. And works part-time as a crew member. After she graduated from Audiovisual Communication degree at University CEU Cardenal Herrera (Valencia), Eva moved to study a Master on Film Directing at TAI Arts School (Madrid). She made her short film debut with “The art of saying goodbye” (2023), which distribution is set to start at the end of the year.

Irene Romero – Alors que nous dansons avec la mort
The director takes a trip through Super 8 footage in which she reflects on life, death and love.

Irene Romero was born in Seville in 1995. After finishing her high school years she started a degree in audiovisual communication. During these years she wrote the screenplay for the short film Carlos, winner of Best Actor award at Comcorto. Afterwards she continues studying cinema in UC3M as a screenwriter. After a year working at the script development department of Isla Audiovisual she continues her studies as director in TAI School of Arts. During that year she directed two short films: Alors que nous dansons avec la mort and La grieta.

Cyrus Leung – Exogospel
On September 7, 1957, astrojournalist Zula N*** was sent on an expedition to Hermetia 7-c. Contact had been lost after a disruption in transmission and she never returned. There are no further encounters until the retrieval of the documentary tape in the Pacific Ocean on July 14, 2023.

Cyrus LEUNG is an animation and audio graduate from the City University of Hong Kong Creative Media. Greatly influenced by science and folk culture, her work ranges from hand-drawn animation, illustration, graphic design, circuit bending and installation. Apart from visual arts, she is also a multi-instrumentalist, composer and sound designer, actively bringing world music, analog sounds, experimental sonic art and fusion genres together with audiovisuals.

Saioa Miguel – La Esquina de la Carreter
This short documentary is a road movie about the national roads of Spain and about the people who live on both sides. As well as the trip of the director to the town of her childhood through neon lights, clubs, hostels and other establishments, which survives thanks to lost travelers or truckers. This documentary shows us a part of Spain which is going to disappear because of the migration to the cities, new technology and finally, our capitalist and consumerist lifestyles.

Saioa Miguel (Bilbao, 1994). Diploma in Film and TV Series Direction at the TAI School of Arts. Specialized in Documentary and Experimental Cinema at the Bilbao Film Creation School (ECCBI). Likewise, she obtained a scholarship from the Fundación Contemporánea in La Fábrica to complete a master’s degree in Cultural Project Management. She works a lot with 16mm film and 35mm photography. She also makes analog collages and have just published a book Relatos y Delirios where she publishes several of them. She is interested in topics related to everyday life, the body as a domestic-home concept, femininity and the dualism between the rural and the city. Currently, she works at Tabakalera de Donosti, at La Elias Querejeta Zine Eskola and is working on her next short film called Maddi.

Nicole Ip –  Crevasse
A deep wide crack, in splits and lines. It spreads.
The city hides in plain sight, hypnotising people with the spectacle. This story unfolds in parts, to roam in the Young Woman’s distress while immersing in the forest’s uneasiness in anticipation of a city awakening.

Nicole IP is a Hong Kong based filmmaker with an interest in engaging the moving image and text. Her work is concerned with the city, nature and finding fiction within the non-fiction. A recent graduate of the BA School of Creative Media programme at City University of Hong Kong, her experimental film CREVASSE (2023) received the Louis Koo Creative Media Award.

Tomás Serrano – Madrid Brutal
Negative, chemicals and brutalist architecture. These are the ingredients of Madrid Brutal, a portrait of the capital’s past through the methodology of street photography applied to the moving image.

Serrano is currently the assistant director in the series La Promesa, produced by Bambú Producciones and broadcast on Spanish Television. Director of the short films La Azulejera (2021), Farol (2022), Madrid Brutal (2022) and SEO (2023, in post-production). Graduated in Audiovisual Communication from the University of Granada, specialized in actor directing in Filmosofía and Master in Film and Series Direction at the TAI School of Arts.

參與藝術家分別為馬德里TAI藝術與電影學院和香港城市大學創意媒體學院的學生和畢業生，他們的作品風格和創作手法多樣，包括動畫、視覺音樂、超八電影和實驗紀錄片等，映照兩地社會文化，反映年輕一代在當下千禧20年後的創作意念、思緒、想像。

日期：1- 15/11/2023
時間：10:00 am – 10:00 pm daily*
地點：九龍塘達康路18號邵逸夫創意媒體中心3 樓CMC 餐廳外展覽區 (M3351)
須於到訪兩天前預先登記： https://forms.gle/VEnyaAm9dGuhAgKb8

*循環放映

藝術家及作品:
Pager Lam – Love is Hurt Trilogy
Sara G. Cortijo – Romeo
李若綨 – 沉溺
Eva Min – It’s Consuelo
Irene Romero – Alors que nous dansons avec la mort
梁釋尹 – Exogospel
Saioa Miguel – La Esquina de la Carreter
葉嵐 – 裂縫
Tomás Serrano – Madrid Brutal
池樂兒 – 我的浴缸與大海相連
Alejandro Rodríguez – O Que Queda

作品及藝術家簡介：

Pager Lam – Love is Hurt Trilogy
愛與傷痛是人際關係與自我認同不可或缺的一部分，正如法國哲學家讓保羅·薩特所說的“地獄就是他人”，這句話啟發了我對人際以及自我的探索。作品中探討了愛、痛苦和生命之間複雜的相互作用。我從超現實主義受到啟發，通過一系列實驗性動畫——《小鳥的屍體》、《伊甸》和《霧茫無望》探討了社會和人際關係中存在的三種基本愛：朋友、家人和情人。

Pager在香港長大，在創作風格受到 Jan Švankmajer、Cristobal León 和 Joaquín Cociña 的深刻影響，她於2023年在香港城市大學創意媒體系完成了藝術學士學位。她對超現實主義和存在主義有著濃厚的興趣。Pager天生熱愛定格動畫和詩歌，喜歡以此表達自己的故事。 Pager的動畫以形象化的抽象風格為主，並加入大量象徵元素。她期望通過作品鼓勵觀眾反思自己的存在，思考生命的意義。

Sara G. Cortijo – Romeo
15歲的María與17歲的Kevin是一對情侶，居於西班牙馬拉加。María意外懷孕後，兩人決定把孩子生下來，並為他賜名Romeo。

Sara G. Cortijo畢業於西班牙馬拉加大學新聞系，曾於馬拉加舞台藝術學院修讀文本分析。Cortijo的首個劇作Zenica於2016年Málaga Festival中首演，當中她同時擔任編劇、導演及演員。該劇於2018年在馬德里Lavapiés El Umbral de Primavera劇院及於2019年在馬德里Chueca區Azarte Hall公演。
Cortijo於2020年踏入影音藝術界別，自編自導自演短片電影Efecto Halo。她於2021年推出的首部短紀錄片La mujer salvaje成功入選洛杉磯影展LA Independent Women Film Awards、印度電影節Madurai International Documentary & Short Film Festival、及西班牙獨立電影節Blogos de oro。

李若綨 – 沉溺
當無知、孤獨、混亂和渴望充斥腦海時，活著又是什麼感覺？在一個病態的社會中，會出現一個病態的人。這個人可能就是你和我。在故事中，孤獨的女孩與植物之間的互動、奇怪的妄想和難以理解的欲望探索了生存的感覺。詞語「沉溺」意味著女孩在她的生活中感覺不到任何東西，她沉溺於她的妄想之中。我使用二維動畫來展現小女孩的內心世界，並描述她神秘的妄想之旅。

李若綨是一位香港的動畫師，她喜歡在作品中探索愛與孤獨的主題，並希望讀者能在這些創作中找到自己的一個角落。

Eva Min – It’s Consuelo
這部「偽紀錄片」講述Consuelo由年輕時曾成為情色女星，到現在洗盡鉛華（但依然風騷地）過著老人生活，迂回曲折的一生。

Eva Min Pérez是一位在馬德里工作的導演，兼職擔任劇組人員。她畢業於馬德里TAI藝術學院電影導演碩士學位，此前就讀於華倫西亞University CEU Cardenal Herrera影音傳媒學系。她於2023年創作的首部短篇電影The art of saying goodbye將於年末開始發行。Pérez以導演長篇電影為目標，持續參與短紀錄片、音樂影片及廣告製作。

Irene Romero – Alors que nous dansons avec la mort
導演在超級8膠卷影像之中經歷一段反思生命、死亡、及愛情的旅程。

Irene Romero 1995年生於西班牙西維爾市，高中畢業後主修影音傳媒學系，其間為短電影Carlos撰寫劇本，該片於Comcorto電影節中獲頒最佳演員獎。其後，她於馬德里卡洛斯三世大學進修劇本寫作，於Isla Audiovisual從事一年的劇本工作。她近年於TAI藝術學院進修電影導演碩士學位，其間導演了兩部電影：Alors que nous dansons avec la mort及La grieta.

梁釋尹 – Exogospel
1957年9月7日，星際記者祖拉·N***被派往赫墨提亞7-c進行考察。 在傳輸中發生幹擾後失去聯繫中斷，至今仍未返回。
直到2023年7月14日漁民在太平洋發現了一盒卡式帶，才再次出現相關線索。

梁釋尹是香港城市大學創意媒體動畫和聲音藝術畢業生。深受科學和民間文化的影響，作品涵蓋手繪動畫、插畫、平面設計、電路擾動和裝置藝術等多個領域。除了視覺藝術，她還是一位多樂器演奏者、作曲人、配樂和音效設計師，積極將世界音樂、類比聲音、實驗音樂、融合曲種與視聽元素結合。

Saioa Miguel – La Esquina de la Carreter
此紀錄短片是一部公路電影，有關西班牙國道沿線人民的生活。導演在旅程中探訪兒時小鎮，當地的霓虹燈、夜店、旅館及其他建設因迷路的旅客和貨車司機而得以倖存。本片展示了西班牙中因為城市化、科技發展、資本及消費主義而漸漸消失的事物。

Saioa Miguel（1994年生於西班牙畢爾包市）畢業於TAI藝術學院電影及電視節目導演學位，以及Bilbao Film Creation School之紀錄片及實驗電影學系。其後，她獲得La Fábrica的Fundación Contemporánea獎學金，完成文化計劃管理碩士學位。她曾效力於NotodoFilmFest電影節，現時正進行有關Círculo de Bellas Artes文檔庫的學術研究。Miguel常以16mm電影菲林及35mm攝影創作，近期出版的Relatos y Delirios收錄了她的拼貼作品。 Miguel關注日常生活議題，包括「身體為家」的概念、女性氣質、城鄉二元性等等。

葉嵐 – 裂縫
這座城市埋藏在眼皮底下，用奇觀迷惑著人們。這個故事分幾個部分展開，遊走於女子的愁苦，同時沉浸在森林的不安中，等待著城市的覺醒。

葉嵐是畢業於香港城市大學創意媒體學院文學士，對影像和文字感興趣。她的作品關注城市、自然以及虛構和寫實的關係。其短片作品《裂縫》獲得古天樂創意媒體獎。

Tomás Serrano – Madrid Brutal
Madrid Brutal以負片、化學物、粗獷主義建築作材料，將街頭攝影風格應用於流動影像，描寫馬德里的歷史。

Serrano現為由Bambú Producciones製作的西班牙電視台劇集 La Promesa的副導演，曾執導的短片包括《La Azulejera》（2021）、《Farol》（2022）、《Madrid Brutal》（2022）以及《SEO》（2023 年，後期製作中）。畢業於西班牙格拉納達大學視聽傳播系，在Filmosofía電影學院修讀演員指導，並在 TAI藝術學院獲得電影及劇集導演碩士學位。

池樂兒 – 我的浴缸與大海相連
《我的浴缸與大海相連》 是一部短篇實驗作品，探討焦慮的概念和體驗。焦慮往往令人陷入無法控制和解釋的循環，帶來短暫但反覆的強烈恐懼，奴役著正在經歷焦慮的人的思緒。作品試圖以抽象的視覺表達這種周而復始的困境，讓觀眾跟隨主角的獨白和她漸漸瓦解的感知，探索經歷心理疾病困擾的人的黑暗狀態。

池樂兒是一位香港藝術家及動畫家。她的作品以抽象的畫面捕捉內心無形的情感，創造出詩意和故事性並存的作品，融合詩意和故事性。池樂兒於2023年獲得香港城市大學創意媒體藝術學士學位，她的動畫《MY BATHTUB IS LINKED TO THE SEA 》在2022年獲得古天樂創意媒體奬的肯定。她的作品亦在 FILE Festival，Videofromes，Image Forum Festival 以及多個國際藝術與電影節上展出。

Alejandro Rodríguez – O Que Queda
本片以智能手機的媒體庫為媒介，探究此每天增生的手提回憶錄與真實的回憶之間的關係。

Alejandro Rodríguez（1995年生於西班牙加利西亞）在西班牙維戈大學修讀視聽傳播系，後來前往馬德里TAI藝術學院就讀電影及劇集導演碩士課程。他目前住在馬德里，從事導演及相關項目工作，同時也擔任加利西亞導演和電影製作專業人士協會（CREA）董事會成員。 2016 年，他執導了首部短片《Fume》，憑此獲得廣泛認可，並為之後的項目奠定基礎。其後，他執導了多部小品，於2021年執導了短片《Nido》和紀錄片《O que queda》，作為碩士課程的畢業項目。