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Representing Pasts – Visioning Futures

Film as Analytical Practice; Exploring Animated Photogrammetry for mapping Leftovers in Hong Kong
N. Ettel
12:30 pm - 2:30 pm

Abstract

Films allow us to see our cities, in this case Hong Kong, as something more than canyons of concrete, glass and steel. This paper explores animated photogrammetry as a relevant tool for recording urban leftovers. This approach sees film making as an activity, and thereby sits between the common understanding of Everyday Urbanism as a concept of ‘fragmentation and incompleteness’ and Messy Urbanism as being ‘hidden, disgraced, [and] under-appreciated.’ Furthermore, this paper gives an overview to related approaches, such as Thomassons, in order to distinguish a unique intermedia methodology. In short, Thomassons is a term and method invented by conceptual artist Genpei Agasegawa, a founding member of the street observation society about objects being ‘too place-specific to be abstracted, too plainly useless to be commodified, too absurd to be preserved.’ All this is in contrast to the ‘carefully planned, officially designated, and often underused spaces of public use,’ and thereby sheds light to incidents – things that were left behind; forgotten, overlooked, neglected, relativised as the ‘background noise’ of urban living. Yet, here they are made visible by films for a ‘sensitivity about the city.’ In relation to the object’s complex temporality, this research tries to give contours to remnants that are in a state of uncertainty. It’s a paradox: to capture remains; Or is it even more: to cherish them, so that something can disappear?

Biography

Nikolas is an intermedia researcher and Lecturer at HKU’s Faculty of Architecture. He coordinates the Faculty Interdisciplinary Courses and teaches the Common Core Course – 24 Frames: Communicating Ideas through Film. Nikolas is a Fellow of Advance HE, and a Dr.techn. Candidate at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, where he explores film as analytical practice. His current research is shared in a TEDx talk (2021), while been exhibited and published internationally. Nik’s latest exhibition Alleys in Wonderland (Hong Kong, 2019 + 2021) was displayed at the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale 2021