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    Trespassing World Cities

    LAI LINDA 2005 Hong Kong Documentary color 28min Cantonese
    Trespassing World Cities records how I struggled away from the tourist video style to seek for an impersonal form to pose my response to a world of big cities whose individual distinctiveness is increasingly blurred. This is a travel journal in the literal sense of the term. The video records my walking through a dozen of major cities around the world, repeating routes and activities, between 1999 and 2005. The mythology of the multiple colors of diverse world cultures shatters. I found myself doing almost the same things, repeating places I have visited, and inside my mind is often a totally different world irrelevant to the places | visit. Globalization is a popular catch word, the token of economism. Personally speaking, it is a form of irony.

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    LAI LINDA

    An inter-disciplinary artist, writer and curator for contemporary media art, Linda Lai is a full-time Assistant Professor at The City University of Hong Kong's School of Creative Media. A Ph.D. in Cinema Studies from New York University, her recent scholarly and creative research Integrates cultural studies, film theory, historiography and the new media. She has been the juror for three editions of Hong Kong's Independent Film & Video Awards (IVA) and other media art events. She is also a member of the Board of Directors for Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong.

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