HKIFF 2010 - Fais Moi Plaiser!

04/06 1030 @ Cultural Centre - Fais Moi Plaiser!

I have watched a film directed by Emmanuel Mouret in HKIFF 2008. The film is about a married lady who met a perfect stranger. When the guy want to kiss her, the woman stopped him and told a story about her friend's kissing experience, which led to a disaster. The film is called 'Shall we Kiss?' It is humorous and romantic. Makes you fantasize about French life.

This film has the similar quality, even similar way of narration, with a bit more drama and humor. This film is great for relaxation, a nice match with afternoon tea.

HKIFF 2010 - Le Refuge

04/04 2100 @ HK City Hall - Le Refuge
Another film by Francois Ozon. After all those films about death, death of marriage, death of a life, Le refuge is about a birth after death.

The Ozon films are my general impression of French films. It is always about things happening right now, not the past nor the future. It is so natural, so normal. Nothing too dramatic. And you can always know the characters so well by looking at their faces and gestures. You feel like these are real persons, not frictional characters.

That's why I like French film so much. (Of course, French actors and actresses are always beautiful too)

HKIFF 2010 - Persécution

04/04 1800 @ HK City Hall - Persécution
Sonia said, she has always been another Sonia when she was with someone else. A Sonia that loves different things, says different things, and has different life. It was her first time to really be herself, the true Sonia. And she feels selfish.



... what person should you be in a relationship.

HKIFF 2010 - 世界動畫精選

兒童節看了動畫精選。短短幾分鐘說一個天馬行空的故事，真正是經驗和創意的結合。

Alma (Spain)

有意思的首尾呼應，不只令故事完整沒枝節，故事亦可以於首尾延伸開去。木偶會令很多人感到心寒，看完這卡通後大概更覺木偶可怖。

Le Petit Dragon (France)

以李小龍為主角的Toy Story。豐富的細節和精心的舖排令短短數分鐘的時間已有多個精彩難忘的場面，現實與幻想之間的恰當配合。香港本土的主題被法國人發揮得這麼好，興奮之餘又有點酸（尤其同場看到一個不到水準的香港製作）。

The Happy Duckling (Germany)

喚起童年回憶的Pop-up Book。立體空間裡的2D角色，將觀眾對Pop-up Book的想象和認識都發揮和呈現了。結尾有雙重驚喜，幽默感和人情味豐富。

Yulia (France)

Matrix般的四度空間，讓女孩找「真愛」。

HKIFF 2010 - I Killed My Mother

04/02 1500 @ HK City Hall - I Killed My Mother 

小時候有誰不喜歡無時無刻黏著媽媽，長大後有誰不曾覺得媽媽討厭。長大後，發覺媽媽其實也不過是一個普通人，有數不盡的缺點，與小時候那個完美的印 象不相襯。偶爾想起媽媽為自己做家務做飯會感動，偶爾想起她無稽當獨到的見解會會覺得討厭。一個我們生命中最重要的女人，是讓我們如此又愛又恨。

想深一層，她們令我們覺得討厭的地方，往往也是她們可愛的地方。與其對她對自己苛刻，何不以笑帶過，不要讓一時的脾氣，增加大家的隔膜 。

HKIFF 2010 - Metropolis (Restored Original Cut)

04/01 2000 @ Cultural Centre - Metropolis (Restored Original Cut 2010) 

在四年的建築上課看過不少次《Metropolis》的零碎片段。聽過無數次卻從未有機會觀看的經典默片，多得電影節將它的終極修復版在香港作亞洲首映，配上小交響團現場演譯電影配樂，算得上難得一遇的電影經驗。

1927的電影已經能夠project到未來大都會的社會矛盾。沒有地下城，便沒有大都會；沒有大資本家，勞動人口亦不能在城市裡生存，反之亦然。城市發展不能搣取低下層的重要性，外表風光的都巿，從來都不能獨立的存在。這些努力建設著城市的人，往往被發配至城外較惡劣的生活環境，只有資本家享受著所有的成果。


電影塑造的未來都巿，外貌像極了香港，社群裡的關系也同樣相似。可悲的是在現實中，沒有中介人會帶香港人走進那個'happily ever after'的結局。

Inspiration for Mapping

from BLDGBLOG

[Image: Work by Shannon Rankin, taken from the artist's Flickr page].

Artist Shannon Rankin does amazing things with maps. Treating them as mere pieces of decorated paper to be manipulated—clipping out spirals, folding crevassed roses of ridges and faultlines, pinning up confetti-like clouds of circles and zigzags—she creates "new geographies, suggesting the potential for a broader landscape."

[Image: Work by Shannon Rankin, taken from the artist's Flickr page].

The maps thus become more like the terrains they originally referred to: textured, complex, and subject to eruption. Unexpected forms emerge from below—like geology, overlapping, igneous, and dynamic.

[Images: Shannon Rankin, taken from the artist's Flickr page].

Outlines of new island continents appear in the process, polar regions and archipelagoes that out-Dymaxion Buckminster Fuller in their collaged vortices and coasts.

[Image: By Shannon Rankin, taken from the artist's Flickr page].

All of the works you see here come from Rankin's Flickr page—specifically, the Uncharted, Bayside, ETA6, Maps, and Aggregate sets, where there are many other images to see.

[Images: All works by Shannon Rankin, taken from the artist's Flickr page].

But seeing these makes me want to feed full-color sheets of obscure maps through laser-cutting machines, slicing elaborate and random geometries to reveal the longest possible distance between two adjacent things, or to discover previously unknown proximities, the whole Earth cut-up and unspooled like a lemon rind.

[Image: By Shannon Rankin, taken from the artist's Flickr page].

There are a variety of distinct styles at work, as you can see, from tiling and tesselation to straight-ahead origami.

[Images: All works by Shannon Rankin, taken from the artist's Flickr page].

Another approach is to reduce every map to capillaries—pure roads. The geography is simply how you get somewhere.

[Image: Work by Shannon Rankin, taken from the artist's Flickr page].

And lest all of these look diminutive, or simply too tiny to see, the scale of execution is often surprising.

[Images: By Shannon Rankin, taken from the artist's Flickr page].

If you want to see some of these in person, meanwhile, work from Rankin's Convergence set are on display now through April 17 at the Craftland Gallery up in Providence, RI.

Consider supporting her work, as well, by purchasing a piece or two; you can contact the artist via her webpage.

(Originally spotted via Data is Nature).