To make a monument that does not monumentalize… Linda Lai explains her conception of “Mnemonic Archiving” in which 19 new objects embody her videography to date at Pearl Lam Galleries-Singapore, 7 May – 3 July 2016.
To Linda C.H. LAI, documentary is a total event that cannot be fully considered without taking into account the intention of the maker, relation between the maker and the documented, the use of the work in its life-span of distribution and circulation, the conversations it invokes, and ...
– 葉啟俊YIP Kai-chun 平日在家看影碟,每隔廿分鐘就忍不住按停,喝水查電郵去廁所,其實都是耐性貧乏的徵狀。年多前看《慾望號快車》時便是如此,每隔三分鐘就停一停。看完過後 ,有「終於看完了」的快慰解脫。是看完爛/悶片的感覺。
– Lilian Fu Inspired by Czech animator Jan Švankmajer and other absurdist artists like Kafka and Bruno Schulz, the Brothers Quay has a long lineage with surrealism and the use of puppet stop-motion. The duet remains two of the unsurpassed animators in the world for its original vision and techniques. You would not find it easy […]
Song Zheng makes sense of Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni's L’avventura [The Adventure 奇遇] (1960 / Italy / 143 min / b&w / 1:78). What is forgiveness? Does it always bring peace?
那全片最後五分鐘,極惡孩童變納粹精英的暗示,便是《白色恐懼》真正讓人不寒而慄之處罷。
5HiNo reviewed Michael Haneke's film White Ribbon (2009/ 144mins/ b+w) to great satisfaction: how the conflict within a tiny village expands and explodes into horror.
Linda Lai reviewed the works in the “Transmediascape” session of the 12th International Women's Film Festival in Seoul (8-15 April 2010): 8 film/video works of varied length and diverse methods, each experimental of its own kind..