Film
賭霸
Genetic Salon: Top Bet
《賭霸 / Genetic Salon: Top Bet》 是 Genetic Salon 系列中的短篇劇情片。影片講述一位來自香港醫學博物館的鬼魂顧客進入 Genetic Salon。1910 年，她曾是香港醫學博物館前身——香港病理實驗室的一名醫生。來到 Genetic Salon 後，她試圖奪取當中的基因編輯技術，用來製造疫苗，對抗二十世紀初在香港爆發的鼠疫。
她的行動被髮廊的一位接待女郎阻止。後來，兩人在 Genetic Salon 的地下室玩撲克，並開始討論在不同歷史與社會處境中使用人類基因工程的道德問題。撲克在作品中成為一種思辨結構：風險、計算、慾望與責任，都在牌局之間被重新協商。
影片將醫學史、殖民科學、鬼魂回返與未來生物科技交織在一起。當一位歷史中的醫生被放進 Genetic Salon 的虛構未來世界，作品追問：未來科技是否真的能修補過去的創傷與失敗？還是它只會製造另一種新的風險？《賭霸》 將基因工程視為一場賭局：一場關於生存、進步、控制與改變命運可能性的下注。
她的行動被髮廊的一位接待女郎阻止。後來，兩人在 Genetic Salon 的地下室玩撲克，並開始討論在不同歷史與社會處境中使用人類基因工程的道德問題。撲克在作品中成為一種思辨結構：風險、計算、慾望與責任，都在牌局之間被重新協商。
影片將醫學史、殖民科學、鬼魂回返與未來生物科技交織在一起。當一位歷史中的醫生被放進 Genetic Salon 的虛構未來世界，作品追問：未來科技是否真的能修補過去的創傷與失敗？還是它只會製造另一種新的風險？《賭霸》 將基因工程視為一場賭局：一場關於生存、進步、控制與改變命運可能性的下注。
Genetic Salon: Top Bet is a short fiction film within the Genetic Salon series. The film follows a customer of Genetic Salon who appears as a lingering ghost from the Hong Kong Museum of Medical Sciences. In 1910, she was a doctor at the Hong Kong Pathological Laboratory, the predecessor of the museum. When she enters Genetic Salon, she attempts to seize its gene-editing technology in order to create a vaccine against the plague that affected Hong Kong in the early twentieth century.
Her attempt is interrupted by one of the salon’s receptionists. Later, the two characters meet in the basement of Genetic Salon, where they play poker and begin a conversation about the morality of using human genetic engineering in different historical and social conditions. The poker game becomes a speculative structure through which risk, calculation, desire, and responsibility are negotiated.
The film brings together medical history, colonial science, ghostly return, and futuristic biotechnology. By placing a historical doctor inside the fictional world of Genetic Salon, the work asks whether future technologies can repair the violence and failures of the past, or whether they simply create new forms of risk. Top Bet treats genetic engineering as a gamble: a bet on survival, progress, control, and the possibility of changing fate.
Film. 4K, colour, sound 5.1, 16:9, 5 min. 4 sec
2022
Her attempt is interrupted by one of the salon’s receptionists. Later, the two characters meet in the basement of Genetic Salon, where they play poker and begin a conversation about the morality of using human genetic engineering in different historical and social conditions. The poker game becomes a speculative structure through which risk, calculation, desire, and responsibility are negotiated.
The film brings together medical history, colonial science, ghostly return, and futuristic biotechnology. By placing a historical doctor inside the fictional world of Genetic Salon, the work asks whether future technologies can repair the violence and failures of the past, or whether they simply create new forms of risk. Top Bet treats genetic engineering as a gamble: a bet on survival, progress, control, and the possibility of changing fate.
Film. 4K, colour, sound 5.1, 16:9, 5 min. 4 sec
2022
Cast: Christy Poinsettia Ma, Bobby Shuk Pui Yu
Director and Writer: Bobby Shuk Pui Yu
Director of photography: Vincent Ip
Assistant of Lighting: Rickard Aall
Sound Recordist: Liew Ceng Teng
Art Production: Chris Lee
Wardrobe: Avenue, Chris Lee
Make-up Artist: MiM Lai Ching Ting
Post-Production: Vincent Ip, Christy Poinsettia Ma
Research and Project Assistant: Yu Jan Jiu
Location: Loftet of Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo Norway
Artwork supported by Para-sire, Hong Kong and International Support, Office for Contemporary Art Norway(OCA)
Director and Writer: Bobby Shuk Pui Yu
Director of photography: Vincent Ip
Assistant of Lighting: Rickard Aall
Sound Recordist: Liew Ceng Teng
Art Production: Chris Lee
Wardrobe: Avenue, Chris Lee
Make-up Artist: MiM Lai Ching Ting
Post-Production: Vincent Ip, Christy Poinsettia Ma
Research and Project Assistant: Yu Jan Jiu
Location: Loftet of Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo Norway
Artwork supported by Para-sire, Hong Kong and International Support, Office for Contemporary Art Norway(OCA)