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Two Traverses


16mm film in 4k digitization / 13'09" / (2022)



On 27th December 2020, four days ahead of the Yau Ma Tei Carpark Building demolition, the newly completed Tuen Mun Chek Lap Kok Tunnel Road became open to traffic.

The Yau Ma Tei Carpark Building was a spectacle in the urban landscape of Hong Kong: The Gascoigne Road Flyover, running through the building and forming an overhead tunnel, was built to bypass the existing surface road. Meanwhile, the Tuen Mun Chek Lap Kok Tunnel became the city’s longest tunnel.

“Two Traverses” documents two trips on this particular day: the last traversal of Yau Ma Tei Carpark Tunnel and the first through Tuen Mun Chek Lap Kok Tunnel. With various visual contrasts: day and night, old and new, shortest and longest in duration, a history of a place is being written through celluloid.



2020年12月27日是油麻地停車場拆卸前的四天,亦是屯門至赤鱲角隧道的首日通車。

油麻地停車場在城市規劃上是獨特奇觀,它被加士居道天橋所貫穿,自其建築內部架空出一條香港最短的隧道。而屯赤隧道則是現時香港最長的隧道。

《兩段穿越》記錄了在這天最後一次穿越油麻地停車場隧道,以及第一次穿越屯赤隧道。這件作品藉著影像在日夜更迭、新舊交替、漫長與短促之間書寫出一個地方的歷史。