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...Hong Kong is now a part of China with its own laws, a set-up known as "one country-two systems." Nowhere is the demarcation more striking than at its border with Shenzhen?a line that Hong Kong people can cross freely but most mainlanders can only gaze at. The one-way traffic has become a nonstop flood: up to 200,000 people a day, 100 million crossings a year, numbers likely to triple by 2010. (Currently the border is open 16 hours a day; some want it to be 24/7.) Hong Kong businessmen have poured $15 billion into...
That removal, however, is stunning-absolutely stunning-in its execution. With soaring, fluid cinematography, Trueba takes the studio, normally a confining space cluttered with microphones and bulky sonic equipment, and opens it up, creating a free arena for artistic expression. Trueba's camera is sensual in its gaze as it caresses Elias' form on the piano. He lovingly traces down her slender figure, caressing her bare feet as they touch the pedals, thus turning her playing into a corporeally total experience, rather than a nexus between limbs and the mind. Alternately, when not gliding around the performers, Trueba breaks...
Once, it seemed, the focus of media was education—imparting facts, perhaps with a bit of ideology thrown in. These days, it seems, the media’s favored gaze turns to the mirror. Websites report on TV coverage, magazines report on the Internet and newspapers review television. Put otherwise, what was a well-meaning system of internal self-awareness has grown before our very eyes into the media’s sustained, unilateral conversation with itself...
This self-referential gaze of the news camera has not escaped theory unnoticed. Walter Benjamin warned in 1937 that the aestheticization of politics would lead directly to war, and proposed a counter-strategy of politicizing aesthetics. But the mechanical reproducibility of which Benjamin wrote did not consist solely of such Lacanian moments-in-the-mirror as showing the masses a videotape of themselves. He was concerned more broadly that “the technique of reproduction detaches the reproduced object from the domain of tradition.” The image, reproduced ad nauseum, need no longer be encountered in context...
...recalls. "We were looking at furniture, and he kept disappearing." She eventually found him on a sofa in a quiet corner of the store. His excuse: not that he was shirking his dollhouse duty. He had been so transfixed by a painting that he felt compelled to sit and gaze at it. The sun-dappled gardenscape also captivated Vivienne and distracted her from the dollhouse furniture quest...