On and Off-Screen Imaginaries

Sia, Tiffany. On and Off-Screen Imaginaries. New York, NY: Primary Information, 2024.

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Abstract (English)

"This collection of writings by artist and filmmaker Tiffany Sia (born 1988) gathers six essays that offer a framework for fugitive cinema. Written in the wake of the 2019–20 Hong Kong Protests ignited by the Anti-Extradition Bill Movement, Sia’s writings survey the rise of a new documentary vernacular being produced by a wave of emerging filmmakers breaking from the nostalgia of Hong Kong’s cinematic golden age. As a practitioner and thinker, Sia has been at the forefront of a nascent generation of artists working to trace social unrest and political crackdowns. Drawing from personal experience and historical study, her writings offer urgent reflections on a cultural landscape changed by censorship and surveillance.

An essential counterpart to her oeuvre, this volume is a critical intervention into global film studies, the politics of film/photographic practices and experimental approaches to documentary. Film stills from filmmakers Chan Tze-woon and the anonymous collective Hong Kong Documentary Filmmakers, photographs by artist An-My Lê and images from Sia’s short film The Sojourn (2023) are interspersed between each essay, inviting the reader to consider a cinema by other means." --Publisher's website

Types: Monographs ; Anthologies, essays, collections
All Contributors: Sia, Tiffany (Author); Ma, Jean (Prefacer)
Dossier: 420 - SIA, TIFFANY
Collation: 207 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
ISBN: 9798987624975
Language of Publication: English
Publishers: New York, NY: Primary Information
Artists: Sia, Tiffany
Keywords: CINEMA; EXPERIMENTAL FILM; VIDEO; HONG KONG; CENSORSHIP; HUMAN RIGHTS; COLD WAR; ART AND POLITICS
Copyright Statement: Tiffany Sia; Primary Information
Deposited by: Artexte Admin
Date Deposited: 05 Sep 2024 16:46
Last Modified: 13 Sep 2024 18:19
URI: http://e-artexte.ca/id/eprint/36720
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