“Fragmented Cities: Memories of a Possible Journey into the Night” 2:05-Min Extract from Sector V of the 29:59 min film

In ‘Fragmented Cities: Memories of a Possible Journey into the Night’ multiple Hong Kong tram journeys have been reinvented and reimagined as having taken place on one single night time voyage through several fragmented and speculative cityscapes within the same megalopolis, but with 5 distinctly different sectors - a structure evoking the architectural logic of Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities, where fifty disparate urban landscapes are revealed as reflections of one.

This psychogeographic interrogation explores the shifting veracity of memory and urban truth; it could be regarded as an aide-memoire; a recollage of overlapping colliding information; a deluge of inter-related or unrelated thoughts and sensory experiences, perhaps or perhaps not from previous journeys possibly along the road toward the same destination; a vessel for Proustian reminiscence and a means to try and remember what might have gone before, similar to determined attempts to retrieve a dream when first awakening, when fragments of thought are grasped at to be pieced together, before they drift away from near memory and can no longer be held in view, and are lost forever.

The work utilizes a "chronophotographic hack"—subverting the smartphone’s panorama function on in-motion trams to capture a horizontal record of time that is simultaneously moving and frozen. The resulting digital glitches exist as fossilised visual truths, creating a deconstructed and reimagined speculative cityscape. Anchored by a rhythmic, immersive score from Golden Bauhinia-nominated composer Robert Ellis-Geiger, the soundscape provides the structural spine for the film, translating visual deconstruction into a visceral psychological interior.