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2:05-Min Extract from Sector V of the 29:59-Min Film “Fragmented Cities: Memories of a Possible Journey into the Night” (2026)

In ‘Fragmented Cities: Memories of a Possible Journey into the Night’ a film by British artists Sandy and Peter Steel, multiple Hong Kong tram journeys have been reinvented and reimagined as having taken place on one single night time voyage through several fragmented and speculative cityscapes within the same megalopolis, but with 5 distinctly different sectors - a structure evoking the architectural logic of Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities, where fifty disparate urban landscapes are revealed as reflections of one.

This psychogeographic interrogation explores the shifting veracity of memory and urban truth; it could be regarded as an aide-memoire; a recollage of overlapping colliding information; a deluge of inter-related or unrelated thoughts and sensory experiences, perhaps or perhaps not from previous journeys possibly along the road toward the same destination; a vessel for Proustian reminiscence and a means to try and remember what might have gone before, similar to determined attempts to retrieve a dream when first awakening, when fragments of thought are grasped at to be pieced together, before they drift away from near memory and can no longer be held in view, and are lost forever.

The work utilizes a "chronophotographic hack"—subverting the smartphone’s panorama function on in-motion trams to capture a horizontal record of time that is simultaneously moving and frozen. The resulting digital glitches exist as fossilised visual truths, creating a deconstructed and reimagined speculative cityscape. Anchored by a rhythmic, immersive score from Golden Bauhinia-nominated composer Robert Ellis-Geiger, the soundscape provides the structural spine for the film, translating visual deconstruction into a visceral psychological interior.

The film ‘Fragmented Cities: Memories of a Possible Journey into the Night’ is part of a unified project that integrates a single moving image asset (4k Master, 29:59-Min runtime, completed in 2026) alongside a series of 20 related large-format, reverse-mounted photographic images (constructed cityscapes of varying sizes, completed in 2025).

Status: Archival and curatorial registry is locked for the 2026 cycle. Public release, institutional acquisition, and screening copy availability commence from 2027 onwards. All public and curatorial inquiries are held in reserve until the release cycle is finalized.

20-Sec Extract from Sector V of the 29:59-Min Film “Fragmented Cities: Memories of a Possible Journey into the Night” (2026)

Stills from ‘Fragmented Cities: Memories of a Possible Journey into the Night’ (2026)

Volume I: China
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