Directing
白紙百次The Forbidden Paper | Mix-medium Theatre
Year of production: 2024
Running Time: 40 min
Performance art/Theatre/Documentation/Video Remixing
Director and creator: Vivian Wong
A story that explores paper as a carrier and material in an alternate era to rediscover the possibilities of physical paper, while questioning the boundaries, power, and roles of the performers, documentators, and spectators through a mixed-media live performance.
2053年, 紙是國家一級保護物資, 嚴禁市民私藏紙張。 在即將迎來陌生訪客的家中, 性格各異的一對 姊妹意外在家找到一疊白紙, 於是就紙張展開了討論和實驗。 《白紙百次》以在一個架空時代探索紙張作為載體和物料的故事， 探討實體紙張的可能性; 同時通過 混合媒介現場演出，叩問表演者丶紀錄者和觀看者的邊界丶權力及角色。
編創及導演：王穎琳
即場攝影：李嘉濠
編創演員：何知穎 李嘉濠 王子欣
影像混接：簡以誠
美術設計：呂楚翹
製作助理：鄭文越
As Part of FELIXISM CREATION
Institute of imagination 2023″ – In-progress experimental showcase
https://www.felixism.com/ioi2023house
IATC | 《想像力研究所2023》基於物料想像作為實驗基礎的展演
https://www.iatc.com.hk/doc/107366
Photo by YC Kwan
《勞動密語》Meaningless Value
Year of production: 2024
Running Time: 90 min
Installation Theatre
Co-Director: Holy Lee, Vivian Wong
Driven by capitalism, labour is often reduced to a mere means of pursuing profit. People’s connection with their own production, products and others slowly disappears in this process of “labour alienation”. Most people cannot truly find themselves in their work, and can only feel the significance of their existence when they let go of their work.
Are we destined to be trapped in such a fate? Can labour be more than a tool, or can we even find our own meaning in it? “In a 90-minute immersive installation theatre, the audience explore the possibility of breaking through this “alienation”.
在資本主義的驅動下,勞動往往淪為純粹的效益追求手段。人們與自身的生產行為、產品以及他人的聯繫,都在這種「勞動疏離化」的過程中慢慢消失。大多數人在工作中無法真正找到自我,只有在放下工作後才能感受到生存的意義。
難道我們註定要被困在這樣的命運中嗎? 勞動會否不只是一種工具價值，甚或在當中找到自我的意義？「想像體」成員阿濠發起的《勞動密語》, 將在一場90分鐘的沉浸式裝置劇場中,帶領觀眾一起探索突破這種「疏離化」的可能性。
創意團隊：
主要策劃 | 李嘉濠
聯合策劃 | 王穎琳
美術指導 | 呂楚翹
聲音設計 | 余日輝
美術助理 | 黃佑弘 滕婉瑩 梁宇軒 簡樂情
場地及技術夥伴：
拍一 @partone.hk x 肆樓 @fourthfloor.4
Photo by Alvis Yuen
Temporal (+) Boundary《繭》
Year of production: 2021
Running Time: 31 min Color / Sound / Subtitle
Director, Scriptwriter, Co-Editor: Vivian Wong
Through the dialogue between Ji Hang, who is passionate about architecture and drama, and three women from different age backgrounds, Temporal (+) Boundary explores the differences between Hong Kong people in the current wave of immigration in Hong Kong through perspective experiments, physical performance and verbal discussion.
《繭》揉合紀錄、劇情及表演，藉熱衷建築和戲劇的知荇與三位不同背景的女性的對話，以視角實驗、形體及語言探討現今香港移民潮中港人對去留的分歧。
Screening at 4th Ground Up Student Film Festival (第四屆平地學生電影節) , Funding by HKU CEDARS Dear Hong Kong Program
第四屆平地學生電影節 🎺 評審總評—陳巧真https://www.facebook.com/GroundUpSFF/posts/2060419107443879/
短片放映會：記錄、實驗 ．影畫香港
https://www.cedars.hku.hk/ge/newsevents/detail?id=923
ROUTINE
Year of production: 2020
Running Time: 7 min Color / Sound / Subtitle
Director, Scriptwriter, Co-Editor: Vivian Wong
Award: Winner of Excellence award @ Busan Contest Universiade 2020″ 24/7 Online Short Film Contest”
The short film depicts the repetitive living routine of the elderly in Hong Kong under Covid-19 and exhibits how they deal with this universal issue in ordinary life as a minority in the new global virtual experiences. Cheung and Lam is a septuagenarian couple who lives in Hong Kong Public Housing. The couple stays apart from their son who lives in The United States with his family, yet they are not familiar with using electronic devices to connect with their son in the new global circumstances.
Video Installation
萬物皆有靈 (2024)
All things wise and wonderful
As part of Invisibke Cities Exhibition
Curated by Ian Tang
at Floating Projects
泛靈論主張一草一木、雷電與流水皆有靈魂, 生命及精神活動存在於一切物質之中。城市裡的物質若有靈魂, 他們如何和城市的人和事發生關係, 又如何經歷城市一刻不竭的變化、或者無限輪迴的時間軌跡？
我將人造的設施想像為有生命的物體, 並以身體模仿及設想成這些物件, 用錄像紀錄及擷取在這些物體周圍運行的生命。若然欄杆、燈柱、消防栓見證過城市街道的變遷, 它們也許正悄悄地透過自己的姿態訴說著經歷的一切。
Animism posits that all things, from grass and trees to thunder and flowing water, possess a soul. Life and spiritual activity exist within all physical material. If the objects in the city have souls, how do they interact with the people and events of the city, and how do they experience the city’s endless changes or the infinite cycle of time?
I imagine the artificial facilities as living objects, and use my body to mimic and envision them, record and extract the life that circulates around them with moving images. If railings, lamp posts, and hydrants have witnessed the changes in the city streets, perhaps they are quietly conveying their memories and experiences through their postures.
Photo by Man Ho Tam
「看不見的城市」，一個起點，五種呼吸 Invisible Cities: 1 idea, 5 sentiments…
https://www.floatingprojectscollective.net/art-notes/invisible-cities
Apocalypse is your Oyster (2023)
Video installation
As part of Black Canine Tooth: Transparent Box 2
at Current Plans
從 “The World is Your Oyster”的典故和有關世界末日的討論獲得靈感, 設立了一個一人晚餐、“睇片送飯”情景的影像裝置。 莎士比亞喜劇《溫莎的風流婦人》中, 皮斯托傲氣凌人地表示只要用他的利劍（透過暴力），使可隨心所欲地從這世上（在這裡被比喻成牡蠣）奪取任何他想要的東西。
影片的音軌中, 是四人在進餐時對世界末日在何種情景下來臨的想像和理性爭辯, 從神懲罰世人的宗教論述, 到科學上的生命循環和平衡, 如何定義世界滅亡, 對生命的消耗和集體的死亡的冷靜討論帶來不近人情的黑色幽默, 講完上帝視覺冷靜地審視一切生命的替換平衡。
畫面中為不同人進食生蠔的情景, 和其他觸及生存權利議題的影像：美食博主進食生蠔、戇豆先生對生蠔的厭惡和推卸、全球限時進食生蠔最多的第一名、人類動物園、大猩猩上娛樂節目、人類對斗牛被殺死和奔走反抗截然不同的反應。作品藉如短影片般緊密的影片節奏和滿溢的口腹之慾，反思人類作為掌權者, 用消耗鮮活的生命換取自己享受短暫歡愉的景象。
Inspired by the allusion to “The World is Your Oyster “* and the discussion of the end of the world, a video installation of a one-person dinner, “watching a film and delivering a meal” scenario was created. In the Shakespearean comedy The Merry Wives of Windsor, Pisto arrogantly states that by using his sword (through violence), he can take whatever he wants from the world (which is likened to oysters in this case).
The soundtrack of the film is the imaginative and rational debate between the four men over a meal about what the end of the world will be like, from the religious discourse of God punishing the world, to the scientific definition of the cycle of life and the balance of the world, how to define the world’s demise, the calm discussion of the depletion of life and the death of the collective brings a black humour of insensitivity and a calm examination of the balance of the substitution of all life as if it were from the vision of God.
The moving images show people eating oysters, and touch on the issue of the right to live: a food blogger eating oysters, a stupid man’s dislike of oysters and his shirking of the responsibility, the world’s top oyster eater with the most oysters in the world, a human zoo, a gorilla on an entertainment show, and the very different reactions of humans to a bullfighting bull being killed and running away to fight against it. Through the tightly paced short film and the overflowing appetite, the work reflects on human beings as those who are in power, consuming lives in exchange for their own short-lived pleasures.
Collaborative
Factory of Universe | Yuki Kobayashi
Factory of Universe – CHAT
Year: 2023
Multimedia installation
Videographer and Co-editor : Vivian Wong
Factory of Universe :
is never-completing installation by integrating with multimedia works in cooperation with New Gender Bending Strawberry since 2014. It is a place for developing his idea of creating a unidentified being to unify non-racial community and sexual fairness to spend time on the same space to feel the love equally from a silver skin, hairy red head.
“Factory of Universe”, “Maybe I am a Strawberry” at the group exhibition of CHAT (Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textile) 5th Anniversary show “Factory of Tomorrow” in Hong Kong / Mixed Media Installation / 2024
In collaboration with Ebenezer School and Home for the Visually Impaired, Africa Center Hong Kong.
做好義工。Swire Trust Go-Givers。Heartfelt Stories |
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Year of production: 2023
Running Time: 4 min
Second Director : Vivian Wong
“It’s challenging to find this kind of fulfillment in the business world.”
Ever thought about ‘donating’ your skills to support NGOs? Whether it’s translating, photography, or marketing, everyone has a skill, and your heart is all you need to lend a helping hand!
Check out the stories of three skilled volunteers, who are also Swire Trust Go-Givers for 2022/2023, and hear how they’ve made a difference for three NGOs!
賽馬會「小足．福」失胎支援計劃 | Community Project
Year: 2021-2022
Running Time: Vary
Director and Editor : Vivian Wong
After pregnancy loss, many parents find it difficult to talk about it again to their family or friends, maybe they are worried that they will be seen as “abnormal” for not being able to get over the pain; or they feel that people around them do not understand their stories, so they choose to hide their feelings.
In this section, we have collected different stories of people who have been through the same journey. You may find resonance in the process of watching, which might bring you a sense of accompany. If you think these experiences don’t apply to you, that’s totally normal. Every parent has a unique connection to their child, a different way of dealing with grief, and living in different condition. We’re sure you have your own family story.
FINGERGAP – Would You Like to Dance with Me | Music Video
Year of production: 2022
Running Time: 3 min
Gaffer : Vivian Wong
Dedicated to fusing high-speed footwork to sentimental Hong Kong music, FINGERGAP’s latest original track “Would You Like to Dance with Me” deliberately misplaces a complex juke rhythm on the City Pop genre that defined both Japanese and Hong Kong pop scenes in the 80s and 90s. City Pop has been in trend on the internet for the last few years; instead of replicating how chilled and laid-back the genre is, the musician attempts to capture the dancing and the carpe-diem vibe of that era.
While its Cantonese lyrics has further reinforced the subtle restlessness of the song by juxtaposing a dancing young couple to the hedonist people in the now lost bubble era, who were similarly dancing to an uncertain future, and here stamping on a joyous footwork beat of 160 BPM.
Doreen Chan -A Cocktail Based on a Dreamer’s Dream
Year of production: 2022
Running Time: vary
Subtitle : Vivian Wong
一杯以發夢者的夢為藍本的雞尾酒 I, 2022
A Cocktail Based on a Dreamer’s Dream I, 2022
16:9 Video, 07’26”
https://vimeo.com/685532291
一杯以發夢者的夢為藍本的雞尾酒 II, 2022
A Cocktail Based on a Dreamer’s Dream II, 2022
16:9 Video, 08’32”
https://vimeo.com/779449632
一杯以發夢者的夢為藍本的雞尾酒 III, 2022
A Cocktail Based on a Dreamer’s Dream III, 2022
16:9 Video, 10’41”
https://vimeo.com/779456988
UNII | A Short Film by Thisby Cheng
Year of production: 2021
Running Time: 6 min
Assistant Director : Vivian Wong
Uni is a trilogy following three characters birthed from the same embryo –one intersex, one female and one differently abled. Their separate journeys examine the self, from birth, growth, to death, finally returning together as one.
UNII: Socialization.
Socialization is inevitable for everyone, Thisby Cheng demonstrates how self-identity is shaped by social norms. Ego is born in a temple, innocent and untouched by desire. Five faceless forces descend upon her – hunger, sex, force, institution and wealth. Id, her inner self, struggles for authenticity and truth, losing to social ideology. She evolves into Superego, the goddess of success and power in the patriarchy. Will society corrupt her originality completely?
Love and Death in Montmartre 蒙馬特之愛與死 |
A Film by Evans Chan
Year of production: 2019
Running Time: 110 min
Assistant Director : Vivian Wong
Acclaimed filmmaker Evans Chan’s evocative documentary is a tribute to the life, work, love and death of Qiu Miaojin 邱妙津, the iconic, openly lesbian young writer and artist from Taiwan who took her own life in Paris in 1995. Weaving performance, interviews (including with her teacher Hélène Cixous and American poet Eileen Myles), and footage of Qiu’s short films, Chan’s deeply researched, and beautifully composed film places the self-exiled pioneer queer writer’s legacy in relation to Sinophone women literature as well as Taiwan’s gay rights movement that eventually led to the same-sex marriage law, the first in Asia, in Taiwan in 2019.