Video (published)

Doors Medley (中文版)
2014, 7 minutes / Hong Kong
Bauhinia

 

A Linda Lai video / Found footage work / b/w & color / 16:9 / Hong Kong

Artist's Statement


A game of montage art, Doors Medley is a re-mix of two existing work of mine – Door Game (2005, 26m) and Door Games Window Frames (2012, 11m30s), which explores visual mannerisms and formulaic structures of film melodrama of the 1960s in Hong Kong. Doors Medley highlights specifically gender paradigms embedded in popular culture. From anthropology’s viewpoint, we have created drama and we also reenacted the drama we create. Popular cultural texts fine-tune specific course of events with narrative logic, which we fervently imitate to act out our daily roles. Isolated narrative fragments, as they are subject to free combination, reveal their hidden predispositions.

KEYWORDS: found footage, narrative game, combinatorial narrative, visual narrative, gender paradigm, melodrama, stylistic mannerism, Hong Kong films 1960s

Narrative/Text/Sound/Editing: Linda LAI黎肖嫻 /

 

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[Screening/Exhibition history放映/展出紀錄]

Shown as part of the Hong Kong showcase, Over View, an international traveling film/video project starting summer 2014: http://www.over-view.org/
2014.08.24-10.06
Shown as part of "Simultaneity: Reframing, Hong Kong," at LOOP Barcelona 2015.05.28-06.06

Shown as part of Videotage's traveling showcase "Both Sides Now II: It Was the Best of Time, It Was the Worst of Time," in Leicester, Portsmouth, Brighton, London, Shanghai and Hong Kong. 2015.07.07-10.22

Shown in "Writing the Fracture and Immersion of Memory Texts: Linda Lai Video Art Solo Screenin "書寫記憶文本之斷裂與滲透:黎肖嫻錄像藝術放映"[...], EXiM 2015 (Experimental Film/Video Festival Macau) 2015.11.14

Shown as part of LOOP Barcelona 2016, Barcelona, Spain. 2016.05.30-06/04

Shown at TIME TEXT, International Video Art Research Exhibition [...], CAFA (Central Academy of Fine Arts), Beijing 时间测试:国际录艺术观摩展,中央美术学院美术馆, 北京。2016.07.02-08.28

Shown at "Guerrilas in the Screen," PACE, Beijing. 08.04-09.15

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Links to related works: Door Game (2005) / Door Games Window Frames: Near Drama (single-channel version) (2012) / critical writing (2005): "Between 'I' and 'You'..."


重重門。門對門。

2014, 7'

《重重門。門對門。》是我另一個的個蒙太奇創作遊戲。我把兩個已發表的錄像作品-2005年的《戲門》(26’)和2012年的《景框戲門》(11’30”) -重新整合,從上世紀六十年代港產文藝片的板斧,進一步鑽進性別模式在視覺風格和敘事結構上可尋的蛛絲馬跡。我們創造戲劇,提煉出有特定走勢的劇情…。到頭來,又契而不捨的模仿著,作為上演每天生活的 綱領。似是而非的劇力把我們吸進情愛道義的門內,塑造了我們日常生活的倫理。透過蒙太奇的遊戲,我希望重新打開看似單純的每一個鏡頭;臉上一顰一笑、門窗一開一關、人情道義… 向我們展示的會是甚麼?

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製作資料

聲效/剪接:
黎肖嫻

相關作品結連:《戲門》(2005)/《景框戲門》(單窗錄像版)(2012)/ 論述文章(2005):「李我 /你、我:故事體外裏縱橫的眾聲喧鬧」

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