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Li Ming
Swordsman - hahahahaha
Color, Sound, 03'27", 2011

"Swordsman" refers to the Shao style kungfu films produced in Hong Kong. It represents a specific Shao style film aesthetics.

 

"Trumpet" was popular in the film studios in the 1980s, a cover device, as well as a fragment of the crass Chinese village culture.

 

"Hahahahaha" depicts the most vivid memory of screening kungfu films in the film studios. It is the most common attitudes of the characters in kungfu films, and volume and tones of the laughter is often matched with the righteous or evil role of the character. The laughter and trumpet in the video "Hahahahaha" enact the various roles of the swordsman.