Simone Dompeyre / No Paths but My Footprints. Image-writing from a Distance.
Traverse Video’s Festival Director Simone Dompeyre reviewed Linda Lai’s video works presented in March 2019 at the Festival. Three videos are in discussion: No Paths but My Footprints, Diaries – ‘Dry rain’ and Doors Medley. Caroline Ha Thuc translated this piece published in French in the festival catalogue into English.
WONG Chun-hoi / 勤力電路 #1.0 – #1.4 Hardworking electricity #1.0-#1.4
FP Art Engineer Hoi9 (Wong Chun-hoi) reviewed his ever-growing work-in-progress, a generative series that began with turning electricity into artistic raw material. An impulse: undress thickly dressed media art pieces, show the skeleton, open the black box.
LAI Wai-leung / 無中生有 沒有故事的故事 相原信洋的世界 The world of Nobuhiro Aihara: whence comes the story
黎偉亮 寫《原格破裂 – 動畫的互媒實驗綜覽》研究計劃夏季放映會《第三眼－相原信洋作品選》。FP writer Wai-leung Lai appreciates Nobuhiro Aihara’s unconventional take on histories, memories and realities.
Linda Lai / Levitated Potentiality 2: software writing, soliloquy & magic 《移形换步》之2 – 機器書寫、喃喃自語、變戲法
“Levitated Potentiality 2019,” presented by FP at the FLAME Festival HK, gathers video works that connect with the experimental tradition, highlighting the narrative intricacy of the very process of an image discourse unfolding in time. 8 artists shows 14 video works.
Verina Gfader / Neighbourhoods & Aliens 鄰舍。陌路人。
The world is waiting to be animated.
Phantom Horizons 幻地平線
Visual abstraction opens up more worlds: Reality appears to shimmer through the layers of its decomposition…
Lee Hang-jun / Scoring Space: non-normative animated images? Rather, the direct encounter of the film apparatus
Why did Hangjun Lee choose 3 projected animated work to mark the finale of Elemental Dynamite’s summer session? He showed us animation as performance, installation, sculpturing and graphic patterning thru’ direction encounter with the film apparatus … 動畫的電影本質與互媒體潛力始於電影器具。李幸俊投影的三個作品，結合了表演、投影、裝置、雕塑和圖形組合。如此，他為「原格破裂」的夏季熱浪畫上句號。
Free Radicals: a critique of strict classification: animation experiments from Europe/US/Japan as examples 游離基 – 擺脫標籤侷限，向歐美日實驗動畫借鏡
Lee Hangjun offers a defence for experiments in the animated picture: collapse the story-documentary-experimental triad, as the 11 work (1935-2015) from Europe and Japan manifest. 首爾實驗電影及動畫節總監李幸俊 以11部歐美日作品（1935-2015）去說明擺脫「故事-紀錄-實驗」三分法的囹圄去打開動畫的可能性早有先例。
Photographic Survey: Korean experimentation of the animated picture 地域實驗 I －圖像勘測
EXiS Program Director Hangjun Lee surveyed the contemporary scene of experimental cinema in Korea in relation to animation and its expanded forms. 「首爾實驗電影錄像節」節目總監李幸俊素描當代韓國實驗活動影像的風景，尤其與動畫和動畫的延伸的千絲萬縷。
“Elemental Dynamite” kicks off this week with rare treasures
[press release] An intimate journey with experimental animation from the US, Europe, Japan and Korea (1935-2017). In the summer kick-off of “Elemental Dynamite: Research on Intermedia Practices in Animated Pictures,” EXiS Program Director Lee Hangjun takes us through in conversations.【新聞發佈】《原格破裂 – 動畫的互媒實驗綜覽》研究計劃向我們對動畫的裡所當然發出各種問題，尋求香港的本土角度，由夏季的兩場放映會和一個現場表演開始，先著眼於世界、歷史為我們留下的珍貴足跡。
