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    Door Game

    LAI LINDA 2005 Hong Kong Experimental b/w & color 26min Cantonese
    Door Come is a narrative game playing with the found footages of a few family ethics melodramas from HK Cantonese cinema of the 1950s and 1960s. To play a game is to interact with the representations the game generates; games represent, and are themselves representations. By re-assembling loose fragments into some kind of coherent structure, I reveal the hidden logic of the genre, exposing the repetitive elements. Through story-creation, my critique of the gender-biased, formulaic quality inherent to Cantonese melodramas evolves. Door Game is the performance of a melodramatic tradition being dismantled step by step. It comprises three episodes: Door Drama: Please Enter, Circuiting Melodrama and Trap Doors. From one to the next, the narrative function of sight and sound deteriorates into pure signs and tokens of shared storytelling practices, whereas the expressive and narrative function of the written text grows. Towards the end, text and noise take over images, and critique overrides narration.

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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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