Upon seeing the course guide for Asian Cinemas, Snowpiercer was a clear standout as the film I was looking forward to seeing the most. I had been hearing about it ever since its release in 2014, and I was already… Continue Reading
Spirited Away, Infernal Affairs…and high concept? Admittedly, the idea of trying to find links between Japanese anime cinema and the Asian gangster genre seems like a stretch – after all, the motifs and origins of these two categories appear to… Continue Reading
Out of the three films in the “Transnationalism and Gender” section of the course, the one that connected with me most was Vikas Bahl’s 2014 film Queen. Besides the awkwardly comedic but likeable characters, upbeat nature and flashy Bollywood dance… Continue Reading
COMM1035 ASIAN CINEMAS ASSESSMENT 1 BLOG POST 1 In Chia-Chi Wu’s article ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is Not a Chinese Film’, the author cites a popular criticism of the film as being “pseudo-Chinese but not Chinese, pseudo-Western but not Western”.… Continue Reading
For this final project brief, I explored the theme of digitisation, specifically in the form of social media being at the heart of the digital movement. After a rocky start locking down a subject and shoot time, I settled on… Continue Reading
So…to say that PB4 has been a bit of a struggle is probably an understatement. Initially, I had planned to interview a street art/mural artist about their process and thoughts on how social media and technology has effected or changed… Continue Reading
A word vomit about my thoughts so far on PB4: So at this stage, I’m still not entirely sure what I want to do. From the last project brief, the biggest takeaway I had was about authenticity, and the genuine… Continue Reading
Visual data My day in graph form: Glitch Art
PB2 Part 3 from Jessica Xiao on Vimeo. Password: pb2 Old media is obsolete For this statement, I have created a short video entailing a brief history of the evolution of technology. I have included some technologies that were game… Continue Reading
New media is intangible In new media studies, the boundary between old and new media is often conceived alongside the divide between analogue and digital media (Natale, 2016); for which the dividing factor resides in the fact that traditional media… Continue Reading