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Door Games Window Frames: Near Drama 景框戲門
2012
Door Games Window Frames: Near Drama was first created as a generative three-channel installation, using algorithms as an automated editing tool. This single-channel video documents one iteration of that computer-generated performance.
Deploying a database of more than five hundred film clips from eleven Cantonese thrillers and melodramas produced in the early 1960s, Door Games… presents Linda Chiu-han Lai’s research into the gendered behaviours and formulaic structures that characterise Hong Kong popular cinema from this era. By extracting short clips from narrative films, Lai highlights the repetition of certain tropes, such as the frequent closing and opening of windows and doors to signal emotion and melodrama. Her feminist critique resists mainstream cinema’s insistence on continuity and coherence and reveals how cinematic language can reinforce gender stereotypes.
Deploying a database of more than five hundred film clips from eleven Cantonese thrillers and melodramas produced in the early 1960s, Door Games… presents Linda Chiu-han Lai’s research into the gendered behaviours and formulaic structures that characterise Hong Kong popular cinema from this era. By extracting short clips from narrative films, Lai highlights the repetition of certain tropes, such as the frequent closing and opening of windows and doors to signal emotion and melodrama. Her feminist critique resists mainstream cinema’s insistence on continuity and coherence and reveals how cinematic language can reinforce gender stereotypes.
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