{"id":5351,"date":"2025-01-24T20:57:43","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T11:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yokohama.art.museum\/eng\/?post_type=news&p=5351"},"modified":"2025-02-21T10:35:00","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T01:35:00","slug":"202502_wby_artist-interview","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/yokohama.art.museum\/eng\/news\/202502_wby_artist-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist Interview: Chris Chong Chan Fui on Film and Space"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Chris Chong Chan Fui “HEAVENHELL,” 2009, collection of the artist<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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During his residency in Koganecho, Yokohama, Chris Chong Chan Fui created the film HEAVENHELL <\/em>(2009), drawing inspiration from Kurosawa Akira\u2019s film, High and Low<\/em> (1963). Kuraya Mika, the director of Yokohama Museum of Art, will interview the artist about the connection between film and urban space, exploring how these elements intersect in his work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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*With English-Japanese consecutive interpretation<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Date<\/td>February 8, 2025<\/td><\/tr>
Time<\/td>14:00-15:30<\/td><\/tr>
Speakers<\/td>Chris Chong Chan Fui (Artist\/ Filmmaker)
Interviewer: Kuraya Mika (Director of Yokohama Museum of Art \/ Curator of the\u201cWelcome Back, Yokohama\u201d exhibition)
*With English-Japanese consecutive interpretation<\/td><\/tr>
Venue<\/td>\u201cWelcome back, Yokohama\u201d Exhibition Gallery<\/td><\/tr>
Participation fee<\/td>Free (valid admission ticket required)<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Artist Profile<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Chris Chong Chan Fui is a Malaysian filmmaker and artist who works between Southeast Asia and Canada. He is best known for his short films Pool (Kolam)<\/em> and Block B<\/em>, which consecutively one the Toronto International Film Festival Award for Best Canadian Short Film in 2007 and 2008.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":5231,"template":"","class_list":["post-5351","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yokohama.art.museum\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/5351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yokohama.art.museum\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yokohama.art.museum\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/yokohama.art.museum\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/5351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5521,"href":"https:\/\/yokohama.art.museum\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/5351\/revisions\/5521"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yokohama.art.museum\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yokohama.art.museum\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}