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Standby Cast
Standby Cast
Standby Cast
Standby Cast
Standby Cast

Standby Cast

Cantonese
Color
Sound
4:3
Single-channel Video
production year /
1995
duration /
11'02

Standby Cast is a night on the abandoned 6/F of Hong Kong Arts Centre. Friends of different persona were gathered for a party.
They are the meta models from the Cantonese old movies, Zuni Icosahedron, Tat Ming Pair (canto-pop group) and the Arts Center’s staff who dare to open the door for them.

about the artist /

Ellen Pau was born in Hong Kong and enrolled as a student of radiography at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 1982. She is a radiographer by profession, but being a professional radiologist didnot fulfil her creative obsessions with video art and media art. In 1984 Pau made her first film Glove, asuper-8mm artwork, which was screened internationally. She has since worked as an MTV director, cinematographer, video artist, curator, educator and arts administrator. Pau began her international career in 1995 at the Kwangiu Biennale in Korea curated by Kim Hon-Yee and Nam-June Paik. She is the co-founder and artistic director for the media art organization Videotage and has served as a member and curator of the organizing committee for the Microwave International Media Art Festival, Hong Kong since 1996. Pau teaches part-time at The University of Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts in addition to be a full-time medical image technologist. Pau is an advisor to the HK Museum of Art, the HK Arts Development Council and a number of festivals. She has exhibited in exhibitions including One World Exposition by Videotage and the Input/Output Gallery Relocation exhibition.

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