Patrick Tam (film director) explained

Birth Name:	Patrick Tam Kar-ming
Native Name:	譚家明
Native Name Lang:	zh
Birth Date:	25 March 1948
Birth Place:	Hong Kong

Patrick Tam Ka-ming (; born 25 March 1948) is a Hong Kong film director and film editor. He is known as the seminal figure of Hong Kong New Wave^[1]

Career

Tam directed the 1987 film Final Victory, scripted by Wong Kar-wai. He edited Wong Kar-wai's Days of Being Wild, contributing the cameo appearance of Tony Leung Chi-wai in the last scene, and Ashes of Time, as well as Johnnie To's Election.

As part of Hong Kong's New Wave of film directors in the late 1970s and 1980s, Tam's work enjoys great acclaim. According to the Hong Kong film critic Perry Lam, writing in Muse magazine, "[Tam's] unpredictable digressions and swift changes of scene can evoke a dreamer's logic, but his sound and images are always sharp and particular."^[2]

As of 2006, Tam was an assistant professor at the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong.^[3]

Filmography

Films

• 1980 The Sword (director, writer)
• 1981 Love Massacre (director)
• 1982 Nomad (director, writer)
• 1984 Cherie (director, writer)
• 1987 Final Victory (director)
• 1988 Burning Snow (director, editor, art director)
• 1989 My Heart Is That Eternal Rose (director)
• 1990 Days of Being Wild (editor)
• 1994 Ashes of Time (editor)
• 2002 Dare Ya! (editor)
• 2005 Election (editor)
• 2006 After This Our Exile (director, editor, film editing supervisor, writer)
• 2014 That Demon Within (editor)
• 2020 (director, segment "Tender Is the Night", writer, editor)

See also

• Cinema of Hong Kong
• Cinema of mainland China

References

1. Web site: Wong Kar Wai. Artificial Eye . 5 September 2021 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150710071219/http://www.artificial-eye.com/film.php?dvd=ART334DVD&dir=various&plugs&qt=true&wm=false . 10 July 2015 .
   - Web site: Wong Kar-Wai: An exploration of a director's obsession with lost time and love by Shane Mok. Mardhiah Osman. 27 July 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20150706060055/http://psof-lasalle.com/2012/07/wong-kar-wai-an-exploration-of-a-directors-obsession-with-lost-time-and-love-by-shane-mok. 6 July 2015 . 5 September 2021.
   - Web site: Patrick Tam's Exile: Before and After. 10 August 2007. Artemisia Ng. UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies. 5 September 2021.
2. Lam . Perry . September 2008 . Eye-openers . Muse . 20 . 116 .
3. Web site: Chung . Audrey . 2006-11-13 . Award-winning filmmaker Patrick Tam nurtures talent for the creative media industry . 2023-09-10 . City University of Hong Kong . en.

External links

• • • Faculty Listing at the School of Creative Media