Jumping Frames – Hong Kong International Movement-image Festival 2022

The world has paused, but dancers are still in full swing. In an imaginary world, the body refuses to be defined. ‘Jumping Frames – Hong Kong International Movement-image Festival’ pushes the bodily boundaries and broadens the horizons of dance with moving images. In a virtual space, the body speaks a new language, extending the boundaries infinitely. Carrying on with its viewing experience since 2004, ‘Jumping Frames’ makes seeing a refined action, shaping the unseen or the undefined into our beautiful world.

‘Jumping Frames 2022’ will be held from 1st September to 2nd October, 2022. The festival features 20 screenings , presenting over 60 movement-images films from around the globe. In collaboration with Eaton Hotel, special curatorial screenings, expanded exhibition and industrial forums will be held at the art venue in the hotel this year. In addition, ‘Jumping Frames 2022’ received almost 500 local and international submissions, in which 24 works were shortlisted in the preliminary selection to be screened at Eaton HK. Winners selected by the final jury will be announced during the festival, including the recipient of ‘Jumping Frames Audience Award’ voted by the audience on the day.

Opening Film: All that is Happening

Date & Time：1/9, 7:30pm

Film Classification: IIA

Directors: Dorothy CHEUNG, CHAN Hau Chun, Jolene MOK, Elysa WENDI
*With post-screening sharing session

Four practitioners gather to discuss their observations on the ways that the body adapts to the processes of transition, transposition, and self-reflection in a collective inquiry on how we may respond to our environments and the current state of the world.

Screening:

If I Can’t Dance / Director: Dorothy CHEUNG / 25 mins / Hong Kong / 2022 (World Premiere)

Lost a part of / Director: CHAN Hau-chun / 30 mins / Hong Kong / 2022 (World Premiere) 

180°・78°14'N 15°36'E・2013 / Director: Jolene MOK / 22 mins / Hong Kong / 2022 (World Premiere) 

As I Imagine My Body Moving / Director: Elysa WENDI / 30 mins / Hong Kong /2022 (World Premiere) 

Artist Focus#1: SONG Joowon (Korea) – 'Pung Jeong. Gak'

Date & Time: 2/9, 7:00pm
*With post-screening sharing session

Film Classification: I

Director: SONG Joowon

The 5 films selected, directed by Song, are all from her Pung Jeong. Gak 「風 情. 刻」series, a site-specific dance film project in urban space, since 2013.

Screening :

Seoul Metropolitan Library / 30 mins / 2014

From Sewoon Plaza to Nakwon BLDG / 11 mins / 2016 

A Town with a Blue Hill / 15 mins / 2018 

I Am A Lion / 11 mins / 2019

Real Town / 11 mins / 2019

Artist Focus#2: Danièle WILMOUTH (USA)

Date & Time: 2/9, 9:00pm
*With post-screening sharing session

Film Classification: III

Director: Danièle WILMOUTH

Danièle Wilmouth creates hybrid forms of film, video, installation, and live art that explore ritual, pattern, monotony, and impermanence. This Program will be shown 6 of her most significant films.

Screening :

Curtain of Eyes / 12 mins / 1997

Containers / 6 mins / 1999 

Tracing a Vein / 15 mins / 2001 

ROUND / 10 mins / 2002 

A Heretic’s Primer on Love & Exertion / 25 mins / 2007 

Fanfare for Marching Band / 16 mins / 2012 

The films contain nudity scenes.

Body Archive: Trajectory Re-Imagined for Hong Kong and Taiwan I - Extra Time (Taiwan) 

Date & Time: 3/9, 6:00pm
*With post-screening sharing session

Film Classification: III

Curator: Joe HUANG (Director for South Taiwan Film Festival)

Directors: HUANG Ming- chuan, SU Hui-yu, CHEN Yun-qi

This special screening programme is inspired by the concept of ‘extra time’, or the injury time in soccer, where a specific amount of time is added to the end of soccer halves as a result of injury-related events. These films are selected from Taiwan documentary filmmakers and video artists from the 1990s onward.

Screening: 

1995 Post-Industrial Arts Festival, directed by HUANG Ming-Chuan / 1995 / 61 min 

Super Taboo, directed by SU Hui-yu / 2016 / 19 min 

The Irreversibility of Time, directed by CHEN Yun-qi / 2014 / 20 min 

The film contains nudity and sexual material.

Body Archive: Trajectory Re-Imagined for Hong Kong and Taiwan II - Body of the Flâneur (Hong Kong) 

Date & Time: 3/9, 8:00pm
*With post-screening sharing session

Film Classification: IIA

Curator: Emilie CHOI Sin-yi (Independent Researcher and Curator)

Directors: Ellen PAU, Nose CHAN, Chris LAU, Rita HUI, Linda LAI, Simon LIU, Vvzela KOOK

Departing from the concept of the “Flâneur/ Flâneuse” by Walter Benjamin, this special programme explores how the body can be situated as a major index of the cityscape.

Screening :

Movement #1/10, Directed by Ellen PAU / 5 mins / 1995 

Aftermath / Directed by Nose CHAN and Chris LAU / 14 mins / 2004

Elegy / Directed by Rita HUI / 24 mins / 2014

Door Game, Directed by Linda LAI / 26 mins / 2005

Signal 8 / Directed by Simon LIU / 14 mins / 2019

Gods and Pilgrims / Directed by Vvzela KOOK / 11 mins / 2019

An ardent advocate for new voices and new forms of experimentation, Jumping Frame’s international open call seeks original and cutting-edge works to be screened during the festival, with cash prizes for outstanding works. The current selections present the spectrums and intersections between performance making and moving images, cine-choreographic interventions and the body.

The competition result will be announced during the festival, including "Jumping Frames Audience Award" which will be voted by audience on the day.

Competition Programme 1 -  Date & Time: 4/9, 2:00pm
Film Classification: III

Competition Programme 2 -  Date & Time: 4/9, 4:00pm
Film Classification: IIA

Competition Programme 3 -  Date & Time: 4/9, 6:00pm
Film Classification: I

Presenter: City Contemporary Dance Company

Co-presenter: Eaton HK

Festival Partners: Eye Catcher, Renaissance Foundation Limited, Korean Cultural Center in Hong Kong

Venue partner: Broadway Cinematheque

Media partner: Cinezen

* Free seating.

* Discount for CCDC Dance Inspirations Card and CCDC Student Dance Inspirations Card are valid for purchases of regular priced tickets. Audience with full-time students, senior citizens aged 60 or above, people with disabilities and the minder and Comprehensive Social Security Assistance recipients (CSSA) ticket, must present valid identity card to our staff at the entrance of auditorium; otherwise the presenter has the right to refuse admission of the audience without any compensation.

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* The listed discount offers cannot be used in conjunction with each other.

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* Any tickets sold are non-returnable, non-exchangeable and non-refundable^.

* Any disputes are subject to the final decision of the presenter.

In view of the latest situation of the pandemic, 'Jumping Frames 2022' may adjust the arrangement of its screenings and events. Please refer to 'Jumping Frames 2022' website and social media platform (Facebook / Instagram) for updated arrangement. 

^Please be informed the following screening programmes "Artist Focus#2: Danièle WILMOUTH (USA)", "Body Archive: Trajectory Re-Imagined for Hong Kong and Taiwan I - Extra Time (Taiwan)", "Competition Programme 1"are classified as Category III by the Office for Film , Newspaper and Article Administration . Persons who have not attained the age of 18 years old will not be admitted . Refunds can be made to ticket holders of the above programme including those who are under 18 years old from now on until 30 minutes before screening time, please contact us at jumpingframes@gmail.com for further enquiries (Online ticketing service charges will not be refunded).

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