Lee Ming Yu: Autobiographical
Lisbon
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LISBON. A city with histories and memories. Could they become
autobiographies? LISBOA, a city filled with symbols, objects and
directions. In the pictures there are traffic signs:
“STOP”, “→” (right turn), and
“Θ” (no passing). They are like scattered clues from
a treasure map, suggesting those possible hidden treasures that people
left. We follow pictures and photographs of the city. Images are traces
that time left on the film strip; hidden signs, on the other hand, are
traces that time left in this city, leading us to other people’s
life stories. Moreover, there are different directions: a telescope
that gazes into unknown distance, a street that leads to somewhere, and
moving trains, sailing ships and cars. They are like the beginning of
stories, left all over in the city of LISBOA. And the ending, as Godard
says, ‘ends as it begins, with images of travel and
movement.’
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