6.10–6.30pm Lecture Performance
AKA Dr Lecter by Yuhang Zhang
Evil’s aporic intelligence: it retreats from existence before genesis yet casts us into the horror of its absence. AKA Dr Lecter is a performance meditation on the poiesis of evil, staged at the vigilance of a public park in urban Tokyo—where an impossible act of murder took place.
6.30–7.30pm Screening Programme
Hsu Che-Yu, The Making of Crime Scenes (2021, 22’00”)
After his release from prison, Wu Dun, formerly involved in an assassination, reinvented himself as a film producer and established a film company that produced wuxia films. In The Making of Crime Scenes, director Hsu Che-Yu returns to Wu’s now-abandoned studio to reconstruct the events surrounding the assassination through forensic scanning techniques.
YAN Wai Yin, Muted Bridges (2021, 3’22”)
Muted Bridges traces five refurbished bridges across Hong Kong Island, capturing them through shifting perspectives and scales. More than a simple study of infrastructure, the short film offers a meditative glimpse into the city’s evolving urban fabric.
Dan Li, Denoise (2022, 33’00”)
In Denoise, dreams and experiences of the arid world are used to bring together noise from different environments and mediums, presenting them in a denoised state with a detailed narration that captures their commonalities. If noise is broadly seen as useless and as an element that produces interference, then the definition and removal of noise become manifestations of power and capital, whether in dust control, satellite maps, sound or 3D graphic renderings.