Fruit Market

2022
HD single-channel video
1’ 06”

Depict Main Award, DepicT! - Encounters FilmFestival, Bristol, UK, 2022

Fruit Market (2022) is a stop-motion animation work with collage of photographic fragments of Yau Ma Tei neighbourhood. The animation work took challanges to narrate spectator throughthe daily routine of the operation of Yau Ma Tei Fruit Market inHong Kong. The work plays with repeatitive characters on shop signs and the labels on the fruit carton boxes. The sound scapeare made with the field-recording as well as abstract sound effects to depicts the vitality and dynamics of the district.

The work was a part of the Max Hattler’s abstract animation programme in Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong, in collaboration with The HKTB Youth Academy of the Hong Kong Tourism Board.

Director: Chan Pui Sze
Animation: Chan Pui Sze, Cheng Hiu Tung, Tsang Hin LingPhotography: Chan Pui Sze, Cheng Hiu Tung, Tsang Hin LingSound Design: Chan Pui Sze
Editing: Chan Pui Sze
Advisor: Max Hattler