Tam Hing Kai
Fine Art
Untitled Video 2011-12
Year of production: 2012
Running Time: 3:48 sec
Color / Silence
The video “Untitled Video, 2011-12” explores the possibility to capturing the duration of “The Decisive Moment”. The concept of “Decisive Moment” was mentioned in the book of the same name by Henri Cartier-Bresson in 1952. He considered that “everything in this world does have a decisive moment” and the camera is the most suitable tool to freeze that moment. With this project I use the video as a medium to capture the moving image to investigating the durational element of “The Decisive Moment”. Maybe the moment that the audience feels decisive is caused by the approach of Surrealism. In this video I use the method of photography to capture a very slight and interesting object movement inside the image.
Life in 336 Hours
Year of production:2010
Running Time: 1:36 sec
Color / Silence
I took one photo in front of my face every hour within 2 weeks.