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Ellen Pau on Danny Yung

I made my first super-8 movie The Glove, a surrealist tale of desire, in 1984, while studying radiology in Hong Kong. Besides filmmaking, I was working in theater as a sound operator, assistant backstage manager and in costume management. I even played a few acting roles with speaking parts and directed a short play. Yet my curiosity for the arts was not fully satisfied.

At the time, I frequently visited the clubhouse of experimental theater company Zuni Icosahedron to watch European New

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Christine Han is a Singapore-based art writer. She was previously a contributing editor at World Sculpture News and Asian Art News, and her writing has appeared in Artforum, ArtAsiaPacific, Artlink, e-flux, Frieze, Flash Art, Mousse, Ocula, and Sculp

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