Editor: Dong Xianliang, Elysa Wendi, and Emilie Choi Sin-yi
Executive editor: Lina Xie
Copyeditor: Kent Foran
Project assistant: Kelly Cheung, Eric Kay, and Catherine Li
Cover design: Peter Birds Studio
Layout and typesetting: Somely So, Hsu Wai Lun @ mmmmor studio
Edition: First edition, November 2025
ISBN: 978-988-70723-5-5
Page: 300, colour printing
Price: HK$258
Language: English
Acknowledgement
Cover jacket images are from commissioned and award-winning films featured in Jumping Frames and used with permission of City Contemporary Dance Company. Copyright remains with the respective filmmakers.
Contents
Acknowledgment
List of Contributors
Introduction
Dong Xianliang, Emilie Choi Sin-yi, and Elysa Wendi
Part I
1. Jumping Frames as a Screendance Festival: A Historical Overview (2004–2024)
Dong Xianliang
2. In Remembrance of Jumping Frames
Ellen Pau and Winnie Fu
3. Mediated Body and Site of Becoming: Revisiting Hong Kong Video Art from the 1980s to 1990s through Body Imaginaries
Emilie Choi Sin-yi
4. The Camera in Motion: Hong Kong Filmmakers’ Reframing of Movement and Narrative
Maurice Lai Yu-man, Jessey Tsang Tsui-shan, Cheuck Cheung, Rita Hui Nga-shu, with Yuri Ng Yue-lit
Translated by Siu Heng
Part II
5. A Breathing Camera
Zhang Mengqi
Translated by Pai Fei-lan
6. It Was Nice to Be a Tourist
So Yo-hen
Translated by Francisco Lo
7. Becoming Image, Becoming Body: Tracing a Path Beyond Disciplinary Boundaries
He Qiwo Ergao, Ivy Tsui Yik-chit, Chiu Chih-hua, Lee Wai-shing, with Dong Xianliang
Translated by Ernest Ip
Part III
8. Expanded Choreography: My Nomadic Journey Through Dance, Cinema and Curation
Elysa Wendi
9. Embodiment in Performance and Moving Image: A Contemporary Art Turn
Russell Morton, Jun Bokyung, Eisa Jocson, Florence Lam, with Emilie Choi Sin-yi and Elysa Wendi
10. Film Tari: Reincarnations of the Indonesian Dance in Cinematic Gaze
Lisabona Rahman
Part IV
11. There is a Place: Cinetrance, Trans-corporeality and New Ways of Seeing
Katrina McPherson
12. Performance as Archive: The Living Body
Melati Suryodarmo, Xavier Le Roy, with Özge Ersoy
13. Curators’ Insights on Screendance Festival: Global Cases
Sarah Moeller, Naoto Iina, Andreas Hannes, Elysa Wendi, with Jeremy Chua
Appendix 1: Jumping Frames Commissioned and Financially Supported Works, 2004–2023
Appendix 2: Jumping Frames Competition Awardees, 2004–2022
Appendix 3: Jumping Frames’ Archival Documents
About the Editor
Dong Xianliang (Yan)
Dong earned his PhD in Chinese and History from City University of Hong Kong. He studies how the interplay of language, the body, and material culture generates distinct forms of knowledge and representation, with topics ranging from medical texts and intellectual traditions to theatrical performance and corporeal literacy. His current projects include curating the open access “Helen Lai Dance Archive” in partnership with the Chinese University of Hong Kong Library, and critically reexamining the historiography and legacy of Hong Kong’s dance disciplines. In addition to his scholarly work, Dong is active as a dramaturg, collaborating with local artists and cultural institutions on theatre-making projects.
Elysa Wendi
Wendi is a filmmaker and artist-curator whose practice spans the intersection of performance and moving image. Preoccupied with the abstraction of memory from place, time, and biographical traces, Wendi examines these themes in her live and filmic works. Based between Hong Kong and Singapore, she co-founded Cinemovement, a platform facilitating trans-disciplinary film creations through laboratory settings in different cities in Asia. Straddling the amorphous boundaries between borders, languages, and histories, she works through hybrid documentary projects, audio-visual essays, and meta-choreographic rituals to explore the auto-fictional narratives of bodies and movements. She has served as festival curator for the Jumping Frames – Hong Kong International Movement-image Festival since 2022.
Choi Sin-yi (Emilie)
Choi is a researcher, writer, and curator based in Hong Kong, and currently a PhD candidate at the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong. Choi’s writings have appeared in journals such as Modernism/modernity and Film Quarterly. She has presented her research at institutions such as transmediale (Germany) and the EYE Filmmuseum (Netherlands). Choi has curated numerous film programmes and visual arts exhibitions, including Jumping Frames – Hong Kong International Movement-image Festival; Hong Kong Retrospective Documentary Film Festival: From the 80s to 1997; and Macao Experimental Cinema. She was selected for the international Curatorial Program for Research 2023: (RE)PRESENTATION IN THE NORDICS. She also serves on the boards of Videotage and Unlock Dancing Plaza.
