Dead Bodies and Moving Bodies (Sky Fong)
4min 54s – 16:9 – Four-Channel
Synopsis
Dead Bodies and Moving Bodies is a four-channel piece filmed using Go-Pros and a phone camera. The film deconstructs the idea of movements in kung fu and dance and attempts to merge them together in one piece. The film showcases myself and Maya reminiscing about our grandfathers and how they have inspired our journeys both through speech and our moving bodies. Our dance and kung fu culminate into a communication with the dead through creating this film.
Artist Statement
Maya and I are both immigrants and we flew from our respective countries to be in the UK. Our movements are as if flying across the screens, where the camera captures every bit of the movement when it is attached to our bodies. The viewers will experience the movement themselves when their eyes move from one screen to another, seeing how we fly and experience the feeling of movement created on the screen.
Sky Fong
Sky Fong is a recent graduate from Lancaster University studying BA Film and Creative Writing. He has been involved in many student productions, including being award-nominated for directing “Platform”, and directing “Pop!” alongside Sam Turnbull. He has also worked on other productions as director of photography, including “The Monster You Are” and “White Daffodil”. His research and films are focused on dealing with musicals and movements of bodies, and especially how they relate to his personal experience as an immigrant from Hong Kong, which is evident in his dissertation film “Out of My Place”.