![]() The seventh lunar month is known as the “Ghost Month” as it is believed that the “Gates of Hell” is opened on the first day of the seventh month, where dead ancestors and lonely spirits roam among the living during the month-long celebration. The Hungry Ghost Festival is also known as Zhongyuan Festival (中元節) or Yulan Festival (盂蘭節), and is celebrated during a month-long period when various rituals and rites take place around the city to appease the ravenous ghosts.Ĭulminating on the 15th day of the seventh lunar month, known as “Ghost Day”, this traditional festival is celebrated by Buddhists and Taoists. Zhongyuan/Yulanpen - Hungry Ghost Festival ![]() Kowloon Walled City was an ungoverned and densely populated de jure Chinese enclave within the boundaries of Kowloon City, British Hong Kong. All he wants is to find Kathy as soon as possible and take her away from here. Although the doubts are overwhelming,, but Lok has no interest in it. In the face of all sorts of strange phenomena that have exceeded everyone’s perception, Ah Lok can't help wondering if someone has inadvertently touched some taboos. The strange atmosphere enveloped the entire program group, and Ah Lok was also caught in it. Also, the actress, Kathy’s behaviour became very weird. The members of the crew disappeared one after another. They intended to film a short video for their online supernatural channel ”Beyond the Invisible”.Although a few accidents happened at the beginning ,they insisted to film the show. "ĭuring the night of Hungry Ghost Festival, a group of young people gathered in Kowloon Walled City. The story is about a crew of online supernatural channel “Beyond the Invisible” went to Kowloon Walled City to film a short movie for their latest episode and encountered something out of their expectations. Kathy High, Professor of Video and New Media, is an interdisciplinary artist working in the area of technology, science and art."Paranormal HK is a first person horror game about Urban legends of Hong Kong, China. She produces videos, photographs, writings, performances and installations about gender and technology, empathy, and animal sentience. In the last ten years she has become interested in working with living systems, animals and art, considering the social, political and ethical dilemmas of biotechnology and surrounding industries. ![]() ![]() Her most recent art works include a video documentary about green or natural burials, entitled Death Down Under and a performance/visual arts project called Blood Wars that uses white blood cells to test an individual’s strengths (see ). These projects have allowed High to investigate areas such as decomposition and the immune system. High is also a scholar of the history of video technologies, systems and video art, and has a background in both writing and publishing (see for reference to a video art journal, FELIX, founded and edited by High in 1990s-2003). Her co-edited book The Emergence of Video Processing Tools: Television Becoming Unglued, with Sherry Miller Hocking of the Experimental Television Center, and Mona Jimenez of the Moving Image Preservation Program at NYU, on the history of video imaging tools will be published by Intellect Books (UK) in 2013. This text is the culmination of seven years of research into the histories of video imaging tool production in the USA. The book presents stories of the development of early video tools and systems designed and built by artists and technologists during the late 1960s and 70s, and how that history of collaborations among inventors, designers and artists has affected contemporary tool-makers. ![]()
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