
Perhaps too good to be true? indeed mainstream movies, though produced with a commercial incentive, are often the makers' personal projections of an ideal world even if it is impossible in real life. Some regard fictionalization to be an illustionistic escape, but fictionalization is a humanistic form of agency. UFO filmmaker Lee Chi-ngai's aspiration is uncompromising: we could all be magicians, to ourselves and to one another, and, we must be. 常道虚構和想象是逃避現實的幻覺主義的表現,與落實建設社會背道而馳。換個角度,虚構是能動的體現,創作者投射的自由,開啔着一扇門,讓我們窺見别的可能性。電影人李志毅的個人投射清晰而肯定:我們都可以是人生的魔術師,是自己的,也是彼此的,而且必須如此。

Second of film-buff Wai-leung Lai's notes – this time, a rehearsal of many memorable film adaptation of anime or comic series, especially Japanese comic series and popular novels as a unique source of dramatic imagination. 「很想看多回」系列的第二回,經年浸淫的影迷黎偉亮繼續他一個人看電影的紮記,天南地北,把漫畫、動漫、真人電影、日本、香港、美国、中國拉上㸃線的結連。

我們强調發表、分享。體會、觸動、聨想、推理,是所有(有想法的)人的權利。這個系列,以港產片為主,牵連着的,天南地北,多國風景。從一個人看電影到我們都看電影… …。這個系列,是據㸃作者黎偉亮的看電影扎記分享的平台。FP writer Wai-leung Lai will share his movie-viewing experiences in a growing series, making connections between film-viewing and living in contemporary society.

A genealogy of data as sculpture: archaeological precedents in ancient civilization and artistic carrier of data in contemporary society... Gyung-jin Shin's attempt for sculptural carriers of data in her solo show, October 2025.

from suspected loss of humanness to the moderation of knowledge asymmetry in the AI milieu: have we always existed as data? Linda Lai understands Gyung-jin Shin's solo show "Unmined..." as a proactive engagement with the materiality of data containers.

If documentaries are not just for viewing and getting new information, what else can it be? The two keywords "participatory" and "bodily engagement" speak of documentaries as the result of caring for our environment enough to strategies actions to research out. Reenactment is to become them (the migrant workers) in order to be able to narrate their experience.

The pedagogic burden of cinema on/about/on behalf of children has been a perennial concern, especially in contingent moments when control and discipline become critical 有關香港「細路祥」三篇連載。2020-2021期間,黎肖嫻潛進環繞苦難中的孩子的沈甸甸而充滿矛盾的論述。

This monograph explores Taiwan in the 1960s when cinema was a site of cultural expression as much as a contested apparatus for the manufacture of political mythologies highlighting a new home and modern society.

Focusing on two seminal ghost stories by Henry James, Sir Edmund Orme and The Turn of the Screw, this monograph explores some aspects of horror fiction. It is the first of an ongoing series of analyses focusing on the nature of horror in art.

On Winter Solstice this year (21 December 2025), FP writer Linda Lai researched on the tradition of telling ghost stories at Christmas in Europe, as an alternative introduction to Floating Project's mysterious film duscussion of a 1961 ghost-story film by Hector Rodriguez (23 Dec 2025).