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Title: Water Tour Video 2
Keyword: Water, City, Landscape / Skyline
Date: 2018-03-13
Description: Video moving away from the the Central Ferry Pier on the right side until it is out of the shot at about 00:28. The city skyline is visible across the water with the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre on the left side. Duration: 00:35

Title: Singapore Island Cruise Ferry 58: Kusu Island to Main Island
Keyword: Water, Landscape / Skyline
Date: 2018-03-01
Description: Ocean and city skyline with lots of clouds.

Title: Singapore Island Cruise Ferry 34: St. John's Island to Kusu Island
Keyword: Landscape / Skyline, boundary, Sailing, Water, Islands
Date: 2018-03-01
Description: Ferry window looking out at the ocean. Main island city skyline in the background. Frothy water near the bottom edge of the window.

Title: East Coast Park 24
Keyword: Water, Landscape / Skyline, Industry, Coast, transnational trade, Land Reclamation
Date: 2018-02-27
Description: Sandy beach with a lot of sky. Ships and trees in the background.

Title: Jordan Abel Interview 1: Clip 1
Keyword: Colonisation, Landscape / Skyline, Totem Poles
Date: 2018-01-19
Description: In this clip, Jordan Abel discusses his relationship to Vancouver as a place and how his family histories and traumas are tied to Vancouver and the legacy of colonial violence. He discusses the placement of Indigenous art throughout Vancouver (and the totem poles in Stanley Park in particular) and the complexities around displaying Indigenous art and tradition in such a public space, weighing accessibility against voyeurism.

Title: Singapore Island Cruise Ferry 55: Kusu Island to Main Island
Keyword: Water, Landscape / Skyline, Sailing
Date: 2018-03-01
Description: Ocean and city skyline. Foaming water in bottom right (caused by a moving ferry).

Title: East Coast Park 22
Keyword: Water, Landscape / Skyline, Industry, Rocks, Coast, Land Reclamation
Date: 2018-02-27
Description: Long-distance shot of industrial skyline in the background. Lots of ocean and a rocky area that appears quite small.

Title: East Coast Park Video 5
Keyword: Water, Landscape / Skyline, Boats, Ships, Shore
Date: 2018-02-27
Description: Video of the ocean with industrial skyline, ships, and a moving boat in the background. A bit of the shore at East Coast Park is visible at the right side of the shot. Duration: 0:41

Title: East Coast Park 38
Keyword: Water, Industry, Landscape / Skyline, Land Reclamation, Coast
Date: 2018-02-27
Description: Receding wave on a sandy beach. Ships in the background.

Title: Promontory 1: Singapore River Cruise
Keyword: Water, Landscape / Skyline, Architecture
Date: 2018-03-01
Description: Group of tall buildings by the Promontory.

Title: Labrador Park 37
Keyword: Landscape / Skyline, Park, Industry
Date: 2018-02-25
Description: Grass with trees on the right-hand side with harbour cranes in the background.

Title: Star Ferry Video 12
Keyword: Water, Coast, City, Landscape / Skyline
Date: 2018-02-12
Description: Video of a pier on the left side with West Kowloon skyline in the background; a ferry starts to leave on the right side at about 00:15. Duration: 00:57

Title: Labrador Park 44
Keyword: Landscape / Skyline, Housing, Re/development, Park
Date: 2018-02-25
Description: Bukit Chermin boardwalk with Reflections at Keppel Bay (residential towers) in background.

Title: Labrador Park 72
Keyword: Landscape / Skyline, Water, Rocks, Re/development, shore
Date: 2018-02-25
Description: Harbour cranes on the skyline. Rocky shore to the right.

Title: West Kowloon Cultural District Video 14
Keyword: Water, Boats, Shore, Rocks, Landscape / Skyline
Date: 2018-03-17
Description: Video of a boat moving from left to right through the shot until it disappears at about 00:15. Other moving boats and the city skyline are visible in the background. Duration: 1:00

Title: Star Ferry Video 3
Keyword: Water, Boats, Landscape / Skyline, City, Movement
Date: 2018-03-12
Description: Video of multiple boats on the water with city skyline in the background; the Hong Kong Cultural Centre slowly moves out of view of the shot on the left side. Duration: 00:33

Title: Wayde Compton Reading: Excerpt from "The Lost Island" found in The Outer Harbour
Keyword: Colonisation, Landscape / Skyline
Date: 2018-01-23
Description: Wayde Compton reads a scene from his short story "The Lost Island." In this scene, the characters Jean and Fletcher consider the newly emerged volcanic island off Vancouver's coast and Fletcher proposes they go to the island as an act of anti-colonisation. This story appears in Compton's 2014 book of interconnected short stories The Outer Harbour.

Title: Jeremy Tiang 1: Clip 1
Keyword: Place, Landscape / Skyline, transnational trade, Islands
Date: 2018-01-03
Description: Jeremy Tiang talks about his short story "National Day" and why he chose to write from a plural first person POV. He discusses the importance of his characters being migrant workers and how residents of Singapore relate to the islands of Singapore as place (or how they often do not).

Title: Star Ferry Video 9
Keyword: Water, City, Landscape / Skyline, Boats
Date: 2018-03-12
Description: Video of buildings, including Hong Kong Cultural Centre, across the water on the left; the city skyline is visible further away on the right. Duration: 00:04

Title: Jordan Abel Interview 3: Clip 3
Keyword: Landscape / Skyline, Colonisation, Poetic Intervention
Date: 2018-01-19
Description: In this clip, Jordan Abel delves into his writing process for Place of Scraps, particularly how he came to use erasure techniques on Marius Barbeau's text Totem Poles. From this a discussion ensues on how readers can, or should, approach and read Place of Scraps. Abel's poetry makes use of fragmented words and images alongside more traditional narrative (for an example, please refer to Jordan Abel's Reading).

Title: Robert Zhao 1: Clip 1
Keyword: Coast, Landscape / Skyline, Land Reclamation
Date: 2018-03-06
Description: Robert Zhao recollects how he used to walk for hours on reclaimed land, when the new sand was unstable marsh land before it settled enough to develop.

Title: Jordan Abel Interview 4: Clip 4
Keyword: Landscape / Skyline
Date: 2018-01-19
Description: In this conclusion of Jordan Abel's interview, he restates the complexity of places like Vancouver, and acknowledges that a place can be simultaneously beautiful and devastating.

Title: Singapore Island Cruise Ferry 38: Kusu Island to Main Island
Keyword: Water, Landscape / Skyline, Sailing
Date: 2018-03-01
Description: Ocean and city skyline. Frothing water caused by the ferry's movement.

Title: Jeremy Tiang 2: Clip 2
Keyword: transnational trade, Landscape / Skyline, Coast, economy
Date: 2018-01-03
Description: Jeremy Tiang and Joanne Leow discuss how land reclamation has and continues to shape Singapore's boundaries and how capitalism propels this process.

Title: Esplanade Outdoor Theatre 6
Keyword: Water, Landscape / Skyline, Culture
Date: 2018-02-25
Description: Nighttime shot of illuminated city skyline and water.

Title: St. John's Island 15
Keyword: Water, Landscape / Skyline, Islands, Sailing
Date: 2018-03-01
Description: Ferry at the end of the pier with the ocean and trees in the background.

Title: Labrador Park 19
Keyword: Landscape / Skyline, Water, Industry
Date: 2018-02-25
Description: Close-up shot of harbour cranes

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