Doors Medley

Hong Kong|2014|B&W|7 min|Digital|Cantonese (in part)|Chi & Eng subtitles

 

16.10.2022 (Sun) 12:45 Broadway Cinematheque

Screening with When Forever Dies

^Pre-screening introduction
*Online talk by Linda Lai Chiu-han and Peet Gelderblom, details and registration

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Dir: Linda Lai Chiu-han

It is a re-mix and extension of Lai’s two existing works Door Game (2005) and Door Games Window Frames (2012). The original sources are videos from 11 Cantonese melodrama released in the 1960s. They were turned into a large number of video fragments and reassembled. On the basis of dismantling the formula of 1950s-60s Cantonese film melodrama in the previous works, it further reveals the gender paradigms embedded in popular culture.

Linda Lai Chiu-han (1957-)
Lai (Ph.D, NYU Cinema Studies), Associate Professor (intermedia arts) at the City University of Hong Kong’s School of Creative Media, is a scholar cum research-based interdisciplinary artist focusing on historiographic experiments which often involve found footage and video diaries. She had her solo retrospective at the Experimental Film/Video Festivals in Macau, Seoul and Cordoba, Spain. Her video works are archived by M+ and Video Bureau. She was awarded Hong Kong Arts Development Council’s ‘Artist of the Year 2017 – Media Art’.