REHEARSALS FOR MUTED FILMS #2
– Ip Yuk-yiu 葉旭耀
Rehearsals for muted films #2 reworks three Hollywood films with stories that were set against Hong Kong. The work for the visitor is a speechless excursions of projected text, which proposes new ways of seeing, listening and reading popular cinema while at the same time re-imagining the dialogue (or the lack of it) as an allegorical conversation about culture and identity. The three films are Love is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955), The World of Suzie Wong (1960) and Enter the Dragon (1973).
《Rehearsals for muted films #2》重構了三齣與香港有關的荷里活電影，包括《生死戀》 (1955)、《蘇絲黃的世界》 (1960)及《龍爭虎鬥》 (1973)。作品猶如一段沈默的旅程，被投影播放著的文字開啟觀眾以全新方式去觀看、聆聽及閱讀普及的電影，同時把三部電影中的對話重新想像為有關文化與身份的寓意性的對話。
About IP Yuk-yiu
葉旭耀，實驗電影導演、媒體藝術家、藝術教師與獨立策展人。其作品曾在歐洲媒體藝術節、紐約電影節、柏林超媒體藝術節、錄像巴西、香港國際電影節及日本山形國際紀錄片節等多個國際藝術節展出，包括實驗電影、即場錄像表演，和媒體裝置。曾客席任教於美國愛默森學院、美國麻省藝術設計學院及香港理工大學。現為香港城市大學創意媒體學院副教授。近年熱衷於研究未來電影形式的計算化和實時性。作品《黑色電影之首：『雙重賠償』》於文字機器創作集第四集（2010）首次發表。
Ip Yuk-yiu is an experimental filmmaker, media artist, art educator and independent curator. His works, ranging from experimental films to live video performances and media installations, have been showcased extensively at international festivals including European Media Art Festival, New York Film Festival, the Image Festival, VideoBrasil, Transmediale, Hong Kong International Film Festival and more. He is a founder of the art.ware project, an independent curatorial initiative focusing on the promotion of new media art in Hong Kong. Ip has lectured extensively on film, video and media art. Currently he is Associate Professor at the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong where his recent works explore real-time and computational forms of cinema. His computational installation, Between the threshold of good and evil: film noir no.1 (Double Indemnity), was presented at the WMC_e4 in 2010.
