Hong Kong | 07:00 | 2023

Shot entirely from an apartment on the 36th floor of a high-rise building, the images in this experimental stereoscopic animation survey large parts of Hong Kong’s cityscape. Using an extreme distance of up to two meters between two synchronized cameras capturing the stereoscopic scenes, the recipient’s interocular distance is widened, making the viewer into a giant and the city into a miniature. Shooting with two cameras so far apart results in much greater depth perception at far distances, making buildings appear like cardboard cut-outs or dollhouses. This expanded stereoscopic approach creates a strong defamiliarization, through which the city is reconfigured for the viewer, drawing attention to the individual lives hidden inside its buildings - together alone, collectively sequestered. Initially recorded in 2020 and completed in 2023 with the advantage of critical distance, 二〇二〇 aka TWENTYTИƎWT (“Twenty-Twenty”) attempts to encapsulate the darkness, confinement, and uncertainty of 2020 – the year of the global pandemic and the introduction of Hong Kong’s national security law.