Composed of ten short film episodes shot in Hong Kong, Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia, mainland China, and the USA, Life-world Series (2017, 118 minutes) is a collection of cinematic meditations on everyday life.
1. Hong Kong: Study One (7:35, Hong Kong)
Visual and aural environment of Hong Kong taken from the continuum between the human masses to the non-living elements of the life-world.
2. Study Two: Young Filipino-Hongkongers (13:49, Hong Kong)
Portrays the subjectivities of young Filipino-Hongkongers in two parts; namely, direct cinema coverage and shots from interviews on their aspirations.
3. Study Three: Floating Notes (13:15, Japan)
Interplays simultaneous interjections of titles, still photographs and asynchronous sound - all drawn from empirical perceptual experience - to cinematically render the modern condition.
4. Study Four: Resilient Textures (20:15, Vietnam)
Contemplation on the shared patterns and textures between nature and spiritually inspired art.
5. Study Five: 雨 (Rain) (14:01, Hong Kong)
A cinematic meditation on rain, this piece poignantly follows the arrival, presence, departure and aftermath of a storm in the city. Inspired by Regen (Joris Ivens, 1929)
6. Study Six: Return Home (14:00, Indonesia & Hong Kong)
Quotidian travel footage interweaving with still shots outside the main route complicate the rational concept of final destination.
7. Study Seven: The Street (7:12, Hong Kong)
Simultaneously playing multiple screens highlight the cinematic medium's affinity with movement and – as seen in this panoramic mosaic form – the flow of life.
8. Study Eight: Intercity (12:16, Mainland China & USA)
Alternating shots taken from two cities thousands of miles apart and sequenced from the mundane to the transcendent invoke a trance-like unpacking of the essence of city life.
9. Study Nine: Yard Life (6:00, USA)
The wind, which is invisible but cinematic, invokes the animated life-world without having to show humans and animals - only their artefacts, which also 'breathe life'.
10. Study Ten: Under the Bridge (9:04, USA)
With an evocative piece by Beethoven in the background, this cinematic experience of meaningful formations in nature fosters insight on the ever-expansive life-world in which conceptual rationality is only one of the many elements.
(The English text is provided by the student)
Composed of ten short film episodes shot in Hong Kong, Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia, mainland China, and the USA, Life-world Series (2017, 118 minutes) is a collection of cinematic meditations on everyday life.
1. Hong Kong: Study One (7:35, Hong Kong)
Visual and aural environment of Hong Kong taken from the continuum between the human masses to the non-living elements of the life-world.
2. Study Two: Young Filipino-Hongkongers (13:49, Hong Kong)
Portrays the subjectivities of young Filipino-Hongkongers in two parts; namely, direct cinema coverage and shots from interviews on their aspirations.
3. Study Three: Floating Notes (13:15, Japan)
Interplays simultaneous interjections of titles, still photographs and asynchronous sound - all drawn from empirical perceptual experience - to cinematically render the modern condition.
4. Study Four: Resilient Textures (20:15, Vietnam)
Contemplation on the shared patterns and textures between nature and spiritually inspired art.
5. Study Five: 雨 (Rain) (14:01, Hong Kong)
A cinematic meditation on rain, this piece poignantly follows the arrival, presence, departure and aftermath of a storm in the city. Inspired by Regen (Joris Ivens, 1929)
6. Study Six: Return Home (14:00, Indonesia & Hong Kong)
Quotidian travel footage interweaving with still shots outside the main route complicate the rational concept of final destination.
7. Study Seven: The Street (7:12, Hong Kong)
Simultaneously playing multiple screens highlight the cinematic medium's affinity with movement and – as seen in this panoramic mosaic form – the flow of life.
8. Study Eight: Intercity (12:16, Mainland China & USA)
Alternating shots taken from two cities thousands of miles apart and sequenced from the mundane to the transcendent invoke a trance-like unpacking of the essence of city life.
9. Study Nine: Yard Life (6:00, USA)
The wind, which is invisible but cinematic, invokes the animated life-world without having to show humans and animals - only their artefacts, which also 'breathe life'.
10. Study Ten: Under the Bridge (9:04, USA)
With an evocative piece by Beethoven in the background, this cinematic experience of meaningful formations in nature fosters insight on the ever-expansive life-world in which conceptual rationality is only one of the many elements.
(The English text is provided by the student)
