Date: Wednesday, 17 November 2021
Time: 5:30 – 7:30 pm (GMT +8)
Venue: 1/F – MWT4 (Meng Wah Complex), HKU
Language:
Screening—In Cantonese and Mandarin with Chinese and English subtitles
Discussion—In Cantonese
Speaker: Chan Hau Chun, HKIPF 2021 Featured Image Maker
In collaboration with the Hong Kong International Photo Festival (HKIPF), the Department of Comparative Literature and Center for the Study of Globalization and Cultures will present a screening of the latest work Cubicle by Hong Kong emerging image maker Chan Hau Chun, a featured artist of Photography Cinema, HKIPF 2021. The Festival 2021 explores the multitude of forms, concepts, and narrativity of images between ‘still’ and ‘moving’; contemplates the mutual transformative influences of photography and our modes of living have on each other; etches out and reflects on the minute details of a multifaceted contemporary society.
Details: https://hkipf.org.hk/news/photography-cinema/
About Cubicle
In an old part of Hong Kong lies an old building, and within it countless little rooms. Demarcated merely by wooden panels, each room houses one family: a subdivided flat, with shared toilet-kitchens, sultry, impermeable, where hundreds live.
The film weaves together images taken over the last few years, documenting residents of subdivided flats within one building. After the social movement in Hong Kong and in coping with the global pandemic, the seemingly mundane everyday lives of these residents are in fact full of underlying tension. Within the cramped and rundown building, some people move out after just half a month, some stay for thirty years; some have grown up here, some have passed away in the rooms… What does our society look like when seen through these steady long takes?
A 15-minute cut: https://www.nowness.asia/story/cubicle-hong-kong-apartments
About Chan Hau Chun
Chan Hau Chun is a graduate of the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong, she is currently working as an independent film and image-maker. She produces both photography and videography; her works include Under the bridge, 32+4, Uncle Fai, Call me Mrs Chan, No song to sing, and Searching for Lau Tit Man.
About HKIPF
Hong Kong International Photo Festival (HKIPF) was launched in 2010. In every edition, the Festival introduces different themes, movements, local and overseas practitioners to discuss manifold issues and perspectives. Through a wide range of public programmes, the Festival bridges Hong Kong and international perspectives, creating conversations between people and place, past and present, with oneself and the world.
Website: https://hkipf.org.hk / Instagram: @hkipf
二〇二一香港國際攝影節「攝影院」
焦點影像創作者陳巧真《一板間》放映會暨映後談
2021｜66’｜粵語及華語配中英文字幕
嘉賓主講：陳巧真
日期：2021年11月17日（三）
時間：17:30 – 19:30
地點: 1/F – MWT4 (明華綜合大樓)
映後談語言：粵語
由比較文學系與全球化及文化研究中心合辦，本次《一板間》放映會為二〇二一香港國際攝影節「攝影院」校園放映活動之一。「攝影院」旨在探索影像在形式、概念、敘事方式等面向，省思影像與生活模式轉折之間的交互影響，試圖更深刻細膩地折射出當代多元社會的百態相貌；以電影院投映方式，替代實體輸出展現，回應攝影在數位科技與社交網絡衝擊下，不斷流變且擴延的邊界，探尋固態與液態的辨證關係。
詳情：https://hkipf.org.hk/zh/news/photography-cinema/
《一板間》簡介
在香港的舊城區，有一棟老舊的大廈，劏了無數的細房間。一戶人一間房，圍起木板，叫板間房，共用廚廁，悶熱不透風，住了幾百戶人。
影片以群像形式，記錄了過去幾年間這棟大廈的板房住客的生活。經歷過社會運動和肺炎，板房住客的日常似是重覆不變卻又充滿暗湧。在細小的空間和老舊的大廈中，住戶來來去去，有人住了半個月便搬走，有人住了三十年，有人在這裡長大，有人在這裡死去。在固定長鏡的凝視底下，會折射出一個怎樣的社會鏡像？
15分鐘剪輯版：https://www.nowness.asia/story/cubicle-hong-kong-apartments
陳巧真簡介
陳巧真於香港城市大學創意媒體系畢業，現為獨立影像工作者，作品多是攝影及錄像，包括《橋下的人》、《32+4》、《輝叔》、《叫我陳太》、《無調人間》及《尋找劉鐵民》。
香港國際攝影節簡介
香港國際攝影節始於二〇一〇年，每屆舉辦不同主題展覽，將攝影世界具獨特性、創造性的名字，以及值得關注的視覺文化思潮引入香港。同時，透過不同公眾活動，搭建香港與世界攝影文化的溝通平台，借影像呈現不同文化歷史議題，審視不同社會人文狀況，促進跨越地區與領域的對話。
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