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Re: Membrance
Re: Membrance
Re: Membrance
Cantonese
B&W & Color
Sound
4:3
Single-channel Video
production year /
2003
duration /
09:00

A video inspired by “Cities of the Dead” by Italo Caluino, about remembrance, memory, and one’s journey. ReMembrance is ‘re’ (about) the very act of ‘re’ (again & about) as I drifted in the city (mainly by ‘ding ding’ – colloquial Cantonese for ‘tram’) and re-called the past. “”That day, I Re-Turned to Hong Kong from the US …. In this city, I drifted all the way from memories and Re-Collections to Re-Flections …”” Words from the work are from Italo Calvino, Jean Paul Sartre and Kevin Lynch, and from my journal entries. They are compiled into a poem to mourn a lost friend. It is an impression of loss, alienation and dislocation in the space and time of the cityscape. Filmed before the outbreak of the SARS in the early months of 2003, post-produced throughout the SARS ‘attack’ over the S.A.R., ReMembrance is dedicated to all those whose perseverance stands against sickness, depression, desperation and death. Winner of ‘The Best Experimental Award’ in the 6th NYU International Students Film Festival (6th NYU ISFF) (25-31 Oct, 2003).

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