Moving Images
dance and film diary
20220106 DANCE & FILM DIARY @ KRAKÓW
CHRYSALIS
DANCE AND EDIT - Christy Poinsettia Ma
FILM - Vincent Ip
MUSIC -
20211228 DANCE & FILM DIARY (STILL & MOVING) @ HELSINKI
DANCE - Christy Poinsettia Ma
FILM - Vincent Ip
MUSIC - The Reckoning By AERØHEAD
20211229 DANCE AND FILM DIARY @ HELSINKI
離開那快失去名字的城市
踏上無限期的旅程
橫越七千八百二十二公里
來到這遙遠 北方的冬天
站在杳無人煙的街道
體驗北歐特有的季節性憂鬱
DANCE - Christy Poinsettia Ma
FILM - Vincent Ip
MUSIC - Surviving Mars By Juhanni Candycastle
20220120 DANCE & FILM DIARY @ WARSAW
DANCE - Christy Poinsettia Ma
FILM - Vincent Ip
MUSIC - Storyteller - Simple Piano By O.B
FLESH
"BODY MUST BE BEAUTIFUL. BODY MUST BE ATTRACTIVE. WHOSE BODY?"
What is the message encoded in each body part? What is beauty?
Premiered on the Jumping Frame International Dance Video Festival 2020.
FLESH questions the generalisation of beauty and experiment on the possible imageries arouse in a close-up observation of body parts.
Director: Christy Poinsettia Ma
Post-production Advisor: Lau Sze-Wai
Performer: Bobo Lai, Peggy Lam, Shirley Lok, Shen Yingying
Borderline Disorder
"The feeling of slight deviation in life tumbling into a loose chaos."
「生命裡有這種一點點偏差得快要失控的感覺。」
The severeness of Covid-19 poses as an obstacle to the live performance. This work is an experiment to incorporate other medium during the choreographic process as a means to document the work and inspire the creative process.
Video Visual: Vincent Ip
Dance: Christy Poinsettia Ma
Improvisation of three moving subjects
“I’m an eye. A mechanical eye. I, the machine, show your world the way only I can see. I free myself for today and forever from human immobility. This is I, the machine, manoeuvring in the chaotic movements, recording one movement after another in the most complex combinations.
Freed from the boundaries of time and space, I co-ordinate any and all points of the universe, wherever I want them to be. My way leads towards the creation of a fresh perception of the world. This I explain in a new way the world unknown to you.”
-Dizga Vertov 1923
Moving body 1, moving body 2 and moving camera.
In contemporary performance, we talk so much about movement itself, its own value, its meaning or its purpose in the eyes of the creators, performers or viewers.
What does this meaning to you?
The result of three moving objects in a traditional Hong Kong columbarium.
Improvisation to the music "Hemete" by Trah Njim.
Video Visual: Vincent Ip
Dance: Christy Poinsettia Ma
你那邊幾點 What Time is it There?
On a sunny day in Helsinki, missing home and the people I love.
There are things that is beyond verbal expression, I can only create something that resonates with the ones who understand.
Thank you Tsai Ming-Liang for the film which speaks the unspeakable, so that I can carry my thoughts into this small work along the messages you have embedded in your film.
created on 16 October 2021.
Video, editing and hands: Christy Poinsettia Ma
Sound: from the movie What time is it there? by Tsai Ming-Liang