01.1
On Takashi Miike’s First Love
A long-form study of gender, obligation and genre form in Takashi Miike’s First Love, combining close formal analysis with reproducible checks.
writing / film criticism / photos / code · london
Hanpu
Li
李函璞
London
I watch films. I also write ci.
Most of my work starts with writing: criticism, research, poetry. I also make photographs, and build software when a method needs a tool.
I care about what gets recorded, what gets left out, and whether the evidence actually supports the claim.
01
Writing
film / criticism / research
01.2
On Trainspotting
An essay on Trainspotting, British social realism, self-management, space, collective dissolution and the limits of the argument itself.
01.3
How Praise Assigns a Film to One Author
A six-text study of how Joanna Hogg's reception assigns cinematic form to the director while acknowledging collaborative film labour.
01.4
One Carbon Number Cannot Do Two Jobs
Why a production inventory and an avoided-emissions model may disagree—and why accounting cannot decide which one should govern.
01.5
The Listener Inside the Accent Score
An applied-linguistics essay on why an accent score also measures its listeners—and why every recommendation must say who is being asked to change.
01.6
How Final e Made Different Histories Look Alike
A nine-lexel PLAEME study showing how final e regularised different vowel histories into one useful modern spelling pattern.
phonetics / phonology · process
Acoustic analysis
A Christmas assignment for Phonetics and Phonology: a recording of “Santa”, examined as waveform and spectrogram, with each segment annotated in Praat.
To the tune of Zhegutian · Several evenings at the lamp, trying to write; unfinished
Some nights, before the curtain, we trimmed the lamp together;
a whole life talked through, and again it was the third watch.
Told from the beginning, told to the end — half of it still there.
Let the night go deep; let the ink congeal in the inkstone by itself.
The words thin out. The dew begins to fall.
One phrase alone is left, and it will not come clear.
Again and again the brush-tip comes up black;
when the ink is thickest, it will not make the words.
9 September 2026
03
Research / editions / systems
editions / research / tools
03.1
an artist’s publication · a fictional poetry shop
Poetry Voucher
A poem, issued on receipt paper.
Existing poems, offered by the piece. Choose a version and complete a fictional purchase to obtain one continuous receipt-and-poem edition. The prices are real calculations; no money changes hands.
03.2
research · remote sensing · political economy
The Material Footprint of Virtual Production
The completed spatial phase of an ongoing study of the Shepperton Studios expansion, testing low-carbon discourse against land-cover change, thermal evidence and the planning record.
- green-belt conversion
- ≈39 ha
- NDVI DiD
- −0.365
- S106 ecological contribution
- £0
OSM · Sentinel-2 · Landsat · ECOSTRESS · Python
Research plates3 plates · spatial / vegetation / thermal
03.3
open source · local execution · MCP
ScopeRail
A scoped local execution runtime for MCP clients on macOS: workspace-bound files, sandboxed processes, browser and native UI, explicit Git grants, audit and provenance.
- 01client intent
- 02OAuth + transport
- 03workspace / grant policy
- 04bounded execution surfaces
- 05audit + state
Python · OAuth 2.1 · macOS Seatbelt · Accessibility
04
Photographs
production / streets / 35 mm / instant
York / streets
A short architectural and street sequence made with a Canon EOS 5D Mark IV and an adapted vintage Sigma 80–200mm f/3.5–4 manual-focus zoom.
Digital photographs, 35 mm film and instant film — production, streets and interiors.
06
Selected contexts
earlier work / biographical record
Commercial, architectural and documentary photography.
Script supervision, translation and research on University of York productions.