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Hong Kong Yesterday: A look back at late Fan Ho’s photography

No one has been able to capture the essence of Hong Kong quite like photographer Fan Ho. What made his works so special are no doubt the well-arranged black-and-white compositions and the poetic atmosphere he vividly portrayed. But perhaps most importantly, Fan’s photographs are treasured because they captured 1950s Hong Kong, a bygone era of one of the world’s most unique cities that now only exists in photo form.

The widely acclaimed Chinese master of his art passed away on June 19, 2016, at a hospital in California, aged 84. With his passing, there is no better time than now to let his photos bring us back to the old days of Hong Kong.

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Architecture of “Ghost in the Shell “

Ghost in the Shell is a Japanese media franchise originally published as a seinen manga series of the same name written and illustrated by Masamune Shirow. Animation studio Production I.G has produced several different anime adaptations of Ghost in the Shell, starting with the 1995 film of the same name, telling the story of Section 9’s investigation of the Puppet Master.

Mamoru Oshii (the director of the 1995 film) based the setting for Ghost in the Shell on Hong Kong. Oshii commented that his first thought to find an image of the future setting was an Asian city, but finding a suitable cityscape of the future would be impossible. Oshii chose to use the real streets of Hong Kong as his model. He also said that Hong Kong was the perfect subject and theme for the film with its countless signs and the cacophony of sounds. The film’s mecha designer Takeuchi Atsushi noted that while the film does not have a chosen setting, it is obviously based on Hong Kong because the city represented the theme of the film, the old and the new which exist in a strange relationship in an age of an information deluge. Before shooting the film, the artists drew sketches that emphasized Hong Kong’s chaotic, confusing and overwhelming aspects.

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IL SANCANE 

Il Sancane è un'enciclopedia di fatti, eventi, personaggi “solo apparentemente inverosimili”. Immaginate la storia come un iceberg. La parte emersa è quella rinomata e studiata, tutto il resto, ossia la componente sommersa, è la parte inaccessibile ed obliata. Eppure è la parte sommersa, più estesa, che riesce a far stare a galla tutto l'ammasso di ghiaccio. Il dimenticatoio della Storia, è pieno di storie ragguardevoli e Il Sancane si prende l'impegno di filtrarle e riportarle alla luce costituendo un'opera di ricerca meravigliosa che protende alla grandezza: ogni singola pagina è dedicata ad un personaggio folle, idiota, indelebile, degno di un'intera monografia o di un lungometraggio. Prendiamo ad esempio Otto Witte, clown tedesco, che alla fine dell'Ottocento riesce incredibilmente a farsi incoronare re d'Albania col nome di Otto I, per poi scappare a gambe levate non appena viene smascherato. Oppure Tsutomu Yamaguchi, l'uomo più iellato della storia, che sfuggito all'esplosione di Hiroshima riesce il giorno dopo a tornare a casa, a Nagasaki. Tutto il volume è la trasposizione del blog Non Sequitur opera di ricerca onnivora e sontuosa firmata con squisitezza da Simone Amicucci. Il ridicolo, il cinico, l'imbarazzante, il grottesco: questi sono gli attori con cui deve vedersela l'attore umano nella sua quotidiana pantomima. In coda al volume risplende una massima da scrivere sui muri: “Leggere nuoce agli uomini onesti”. 

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Il Sancane is an encyclopedia of facts, events and charachters which are “just apparently improbable”. If history were an iceberg, the surface level would be the official history, while the submerged part would be the forgotten history. That part is full of interesting stories and Il Sancane brings them back to light, building a magnificent work of research: each page is dedicated to a lunatic, stupid, unforgettable charachter, such as Otto Witte, a German clown who becomes Otto I king of Albania and has to run away when his fraud is discovered. Or such as Tsutomu Yamaguchi, the most unlucky man in history, who escapes the Hiroshima bomb and goes back home the next day, in Nagasaki. The book is based on the blog Non sequitur, an omnivorous and luxurious work by Simone Amicucci. 

Author: Simone Amicucci / Publisher: Ultra / Italian edition / ISBN 9788867763153 / €17.50

Questo Epos gratifica la mia missione di rimembranza. Grazie, rendo merito ed obblighi ecclesiali

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