{"id":7177,"date":"2025-10-13T17:54:48","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T09:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/typesetter.hk\/?page_id=7177"},"modified":"2026-02-19T00:15:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T16:15:29","slug":"still-jumping","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/typesetter.hk\/en\/still-jumping\/","title":{"rendered":"Still Jumping: Mediated Performance and Moving Image Across Asia and the Global Stage, 2004\u20132024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Jumping Frames \u2013 Hong Kong International Movement-Image Festival
Twenty Years of Dance, Media, and Interdisciplinary Innovation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u3000\u3000Since its founding by the City Contemporary Dance Company in 2004, Jumping Frames \u2013 Hong Kong International Movement-Image Festival has established itself as a pioneering platform at the intersection of embodied practice and visual media. More than a film festival, Jumping Frames has continuously redefined the boundaries of artistic experimentation and interdisciplinary exchange, acting as a vital nexus for local and international creative communities and serving as a microcosm of Hong Kong\u2019s vibrant cultural landscape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u3000\u3000This anthology presents a multifaceted exploration of screendance and movement-image arts, bringing together a carefully curated collection of essays, roundtable discussions, and artistic reflections. It examines the reimagining of traditions, the body as a site of cultural critique, and the evolving interplay between movement and media technologies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u3000\u3000Spanning experiences from Hong Kong, East Asia, Southeast Asia, Europe, and beyond, this volume provides fresh perspectives for artists, curators, and scholars. It invites readers to reconsider the role of dance and moving images within contemporary art and to reflect on their broader cultural, social, and political implications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u3000\u3000Marking the 20th<\/sup> anniversary of Jumping Frames, this anthology celebrates two decades of artistic innovation, offering an inspiring resource for those seeking to explore the dynamic convergence of dance and media arts and envisioning new possibilities for the future of movement-image practices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Editor<\/strong>: Dong Xianliang, Elysa Wendi, and Emilie Choi Sin-yi<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Executive editor<\/strong>: Lina Xie
Copyeditor<\/strong>: Kent Foran<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Project assistant<\/strong>: Kelly Cheung, Eric Kay, and Catherine Li<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cover design<\/strong>: Peter Birds Studio
Layout and typesetting<\/strong>: Somely So, Hsu Wai Lun @ mmmmor studio<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Publisher: <\/strong>City Contemporary Dance Company and Typesetter Publishing Company<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Edition<\/strong>: First edition, November 2025
ISBN<\/strong>: 978-962-78050-9-0
DOI<\/strong>: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.70783\/stilljumping<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Page<\/strong>: 400, colour printing
Price<\/strong>: HK$258<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Language<\/strong>: English<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Acknowledgement
<\/strong>Cover jacket images are from commissioned and award-winning films featured in Jumping Frames and used with permission of City Contemporary Dance Company. Copyright remains with the respective filmmakers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Contents<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Acknowledgment
List of Contributors<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Introduction
Dong Xianliang, Emilie Choi Sin-yi, and Elysa Wendi<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Part I<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Jumping Frames as a Screendance Festival: A Historical Overview (2004\u20132024)
    Dong Xianliang<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. In Remembrance of Jumping Frames
    Ellen Pau and Winnie Fu<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Mediated Body and Site of Becoming: Revisiting Hong Kong Video Art from the 1980s to 1990s through Body Imaginaries
    Emilie Choi Sin-yi<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. The Camera in Motion: Hong Kong Filmmakers\u2019 Reframing of Movement and Narrative
    Maurice Lai Yu-man, Jessey Tsang Tsui-shan, Cheuk Cheung, Rita Hui Nga-shu, with Yuri Ng Yue-lit
    Translated by Siu Heng<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Part II<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    1. A Breathing Camera
      Zhang Mengqi
      Translated by Pai Fei-lan<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    2. It Was Nice to Be a Tourist
      So Yo-hen
      Translated by Francisco Lo<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    3. Becoming Image, Becoming Body: Tracing a Path Beyond Disciplinary Boundaries
      He Qiwo Ergao, Ivy Tsui Yik-chit, Chiu Chih-hua, Lee Wai-shing, with Dong Xianliang
      Translated by Ernest Ip<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

      Part III<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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      1. Expanded Choreography: My Nomadic Journey Through Dance, Cinema and Curation
        Elysa Wendi<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      2. Embodiment in Performance and Moving Image: A Contemporary Art Turn
        Russell Morton, Jun Bokyung, Eisa Jocson, Florence Lam, with Emilie Choi Sin-yi and Elysa Wendi<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      3. Film Tari: Reincarnations of the Indonesian Dance in Cinematic Gaze
        Lisabona Rahman<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

        Part IV<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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        1. There is a Place<\/em>: Cinetrance, Trans-corporeality and New Ways of Seeing 
          Katrina McPherson<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        2. Performance as Archive: The Living Body
          By Melati Suryodarmo, Xavier Le Roy, with \u00d6zge Ersoy<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        3. Curators\u2019 Insights on Screendance Festival: Global Cases 
          Sarah Moeller, Naoto Iina, Andreas Hannes, Elysa Wendi, with Jeremy Chua<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

          Appendix 1: Jumping Frames Commissioned and Financially Supported Works, 2004\u20132023
          Appendix 2: Jumping Frames Competition Awardees, 2004\u20132022
          Appendix 3: Jumping Frames\u2019 Archival Documents<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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          About the Editor<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

          Dong Xianliang (Yan)<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

          Dong earned his PhD in Chinese and History from City University of Hong Kong. He studies how the interplay of language, the body, and material culture generates distinct forms of knowledge and representation, with topics ranging from medical texts and intellectual traditions to theatrical performance and corporeal literacy. His current projects include curating the open access \u201cHelen Lai Dance Archive\u201d in partnership with the Chinese University of Hong Kong Library, and critically reexamining the historiography and legacy of Hong Kong\u2019s dance disciplines. In addition to his scholarly work, Dong is active as a dramaturg, collaborating with local artists and cultural institutions on theatre-making projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

          Elysa Wendi<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

          Wendi is a filmmaker and artist-curator whose practice spans the intersection of performance and moving image. Preoccupied with the abstraction of memory from place, time, and biographical traces, Wendi examines these themes in her live and filmic works. Based between Hong Kong and Singapore, she co-founded Cinemovement, a platform facilitating trans-disciplinary film creations through laboratory settings in different cities in Asia. Straddling the amorphous boundaries between borders, languages, and histories, she works through hybrid documentary projects, audio-visual essays, and meta-choreographic rituals to explore the auto-fictional narratives of bodies and movements. She has served as festival curator for the Jumping Frames \u2013 Hong Kong International Movement-image Festival since 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

          Choi<\/strong> Sin-yi (Emilie)<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

          Choi is a researcher, writer, and curator based in Hong Kong, and currently a PhD candidate at the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong. Choi\u2019s writings have appeared in journals such as Modernism\/modernity<\/em> and Film Quarterly<\/em>. She has presented her research at institutions such as transmediale (Germany) and the EYE Filmmuseum (Netherlands). Choi has curated numerous film programmes and visual arts exhibitions, including Jumping Frames \u2013 Hong Kong International Movement-image Festival; Hong Kong Retrospective Documentary Film Festival: From the 80s to 1997; and Macao Experimental Cinema. She was selected for the international Curatorial Program for Research 2023: (RE)PRESENTATION IN THE NORDICS. She also serves on the boards of Videotage and Unlock Dancing Plaza.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

          Since its founding by the City Contemporary Dance Company in 2004, Jumping Frames \u2013 Hong Kong International Movement-Image Festival has established itself as a pioneering platform at the intersection of embodied practice and visual media. More than a film festival, Jumping Frames has continuously redefined the boundaries of artistic experimentation and interdisciplinary exchange, acting as a vital nexus for local and international creative communities and serving as a microcosm of Hong Kong\u2019s vibrant cultural landscape.<\/p>\n

          This anthology presents a multifaceted exploration of screendance and movement-image arts, bringing together a carefully curated collection of essays, roundtable discussions, and artistic reflections. 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