{"id":2450,"date":"2025-10-10T19:04:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T19:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jumpingframes.com\/?post_type=mec-events&p=3653"},"modified":"2025-10-23T03:31:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T03:31:30","slug":"playful-entanglements","status":"publish","type":"mec-events","link":"https:\/\/jumpingframes.com\/en\/film\/playful-entanglements\/","title":{"rendered":"Sino-phone Focus II : Playful Entanglements"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Curated by Timmy Chih-Ting CHEN<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

How do we collectively survive in a world increasingly saddening, polarized, and militarized? How can we cultivate joy, connection, and creativity through the collaborative, playful acts of dancing?  These dancing films offer an interconnected, conversational response through the transformative power of (inter)play\u2014entangling bodies, plants, animals, things, cities, and systems in unexpected ways. Across rain-soaked floors, lush ecosystems, urban landscapes, and virtual worlds, dance emerges as a tool for survival\u2014reimagining agency, dissolving boundaries, and forging relationships rooted in care and sustainability. 

Through their playful experimentation, the artists explore themes of ecological entanglements, creative rebellion, and the enduring strength of friendship. At the heart of these works lies a spirit of interconnectivity and resistance. Whether it\u2019s dancers embodying the movements of plants and objects, two girls and a cowboy cat contemplating mortality and temporality, or a performer reclaiming her body from the control of a first-person player, each film challenges the systems\u2014both visible and invisible\u2014that shape our everyday lives.  Playful Entanglements <\/em><\/strong>celebrates dance films as radical acts of reimagining ways to resist, connect, and care for a world that often feels fractured.  In these moments of movement and collaboration, we are reminded that play is not frivolous, but a vital force for survival, transformation, and mutual care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Once Upon A Time In Rain<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Once Upon A Time In Rain<\/em> revisits a fleeting moment inspired by Self-Portrait with Three Women<\/em> (Zhang Mengqi, 2010) from 12 years ago at a documentary youth training camp on Cheung Chau Island of Hong Kong. Performer-director Shing moves across rain-soaked floors, his movements shaped by the collective vision of fellow filmmakers like Chan Hau-chun, Chui Chi-yin, Fai Wan. A playful exploration of creative impulse and collective filmmaking, the work dissolves boundaries between agency and surrender, shared pleasure and private pain. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Director \/ LEE Wai Shing
2025 \/ 7’43<\/strong> \/ Cantonese<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Collection of Expressive Sight (Excerpt): Revealed in Concealment<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The excerpt from Collection of Expressive Sight, a series of five feminist nonanthropocentric ecological dance films, unfolds in the lush landscapes of Guangzhou. Here, dancers transform their bodies, mirroring the forms of plants and forging intimate connections with their botanical counterparts. Through this erotic interplay of bodies and plants gazing and being gazed upon, the film evokes a world of mutual becoming, blurring the boundaries between human and nonhuman, and gesturing toward sensorial ecological entanglements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Director \/ <\/strong>WU Hui<\/strong>
2025 \/ 9’43<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Kill Tick<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In this whimsical and thought-provoking dreamcore fantasy, Kill Tick<\/em>, two female dancer-directors and a cowboy cat navigate the passage of time, the lightness of memories, and the inevitability of death, while immersed in the colorful backdrop of TV series, My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic<\/em>. Blending playful absurdity with existential musings, the film crescendos in a rap rhapsody, where fun and friendship becomes acts of resistance against the world that is falling apart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Director \/<\/strong> LI Shiyu, XIA Yifan<\/strong>
2025 \/ 13’16<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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All things wise and wonderful<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Conceived as a duo-channel performance video installation, All things wise and wonderful<\/em> reimagines Hong Kong through the lens of animism, imbuing inanimate objects in the city with dancing souls. Calendars, traffic cones, street signs, architectural forms, surveillance cameras, fire hydrants, and passing pedestrians transform into both dancing partners and silent witnesses, moving in rhythm with the dancer-director to tell the story of a changing city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Director \/<\/strong> Vivian Wing Lam WONG<\/strong>
2024 \/ 22’48<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Manipulated Emotions<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Manipulated Emotions<\/em> unfolds as a dance film in the guise of a video game, where the dancer\u2019s costumes, emotions, and movements are controlled by the visible hands of a first-person player wielding the game console. The dancer ultimately reclaims control of her body and agency in a powerful \u201cgame over\u201d that subverts the system itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Director \/ Wang Xinpei, ZHANG Yutong<\/strong>
2024 \/ 4\u201934<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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