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SUMMARY:Big Waves\, Great Earthquakes Screening No. 1 - China's First Environmental Film - Big Tree County\, featuring an introduction by Iza Ding
DESCRIPTION:Introduction: Iza Ding\, Associate Professor of Political Science\, Northwestern UniversityModerator: Sam Maclean\, Communications Manager\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies \n\n\n\nThe screening will be followed by a Zoom Q&A with filmmaker Hao Zhiqiang. \n\n\n\nThe Fairbank Center’s Big Waves\, Great Earthquakes screening series presents its first film\, China’s First Environmental Film – Big Tree County (1992). \n\n\n\nBig Waves\, Great Earthquakes explores the largely unseen early history of independent film in China\, beginning in the late 1980s. Wu Wenguang— who’s usually credited as China’s first independent filmmaker— has likened the emotions of this era to a “big wave”; Wu’s contemporary\, Wen Pulin\, was working independently even earlier\, documenting the avant-garde arts scene in Beijing with his legendary\, but never-completed\, film The Great Earthquake. This screening series will unearth films long-suppressed by Chinese authorities in order to rewrite the narrative of modern film history in China. \n\n\n\nFilmmaker Hao Zhiqiang has said that he wants to capture “the soul of the Chinese people” with his work. His first two films do this by showing how larger forces (the wind-like momentum of history and a town that cut down the giant tree it was named after) can render society helpless to change. Wind (1988) is the first independently produced animated film ever made in China; it  meditates on the legacy of the Cultural Revolution\, and how it shaped the social and political attitudes of many artists and intellectuals in the late 1980s. Big Tree County (1992) may well be China’s first environmental film: While working at CCTV in the early ‘90s\, Hao was inspired by a newspaper article describing a sulfur-iron mining town to haul his station’s equipment hundreds of miles to the border of Sichuan\, Yunnan\, and Guizhou provinces and film a village whose “Big Tree” had been chopped down decades earlier to build the pollution-spewing\, labor-exploiting sulfur-iron mine that came to define the town. This modest but rigorous example of “direct cinema” documentary registers a forceful sociopolitical activism and an uncommon concern for environmental issues. \n\n\n\nIza Ding is Associate Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University. Her research explores modernity and its discontents\, especially in areas related to the environment\, climate change\, bureaucracy\, populism\, nationalism\, morality\, political memory\, and ideology. Her recent publications include The Performative State: Public Scrutiny and Environmental Governance in China (Cornell University Press 2022)\, and articles in World Politics\, Comparative Political Studies\, Democratization\, Studies in Comparative International Development\, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management\, and China Quarterly. She is working on a book-length monograph on the global historical waves of environmentalism. She received her Ph.D in Government from Harvard University and her BA in Political Science and Russian and Eastern European Studies from the University of Michigan. \n\n\n\nWind directed by Hao Zhiqiang. China\, 1988\, animated\, 7 min.Big Tree County directed by Hao Zhiqiang. China\, 1992\, documentary\, 42 min. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-screening-big-tree-county-featuring-an-introduction-by-iza-ding/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film Screening
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: Yi Yi (A One and a Two …)\, with introduction by Kalli Peng
DESCRIPTION:Edward Yang’s cinematic swan song\, released at the turn of the millennium\, is a moving tapestry that weaves together the dissolution and reconstitution of the fragile subjectivities in an increasingly global\, capitalist and mediated urban society. Yi Yi opens with a wedding and ends with a funeral. What unfolds between love and death is everything that saturates our modern existence: awakening\, nostalgia\, contingency\, anxiety\, alienation\, the ennui of everyday banality and the oscillations between longings for interpersonal dependence and fears of intimacy. This three-hour-long audiovisual epic unfolds the confusions and struggles of the multigenerational Jian family. As the grandmother falls into a coma\, the family members take turns sitting at her bedside relaying their life to her\, only to hear their own doubts and uncertainties reverberate in the resounding silence. At his tenderest moment\, Yang\, through Yi Yi\, delicately\, wisely and elegantly portrays the poignant reminiscences of the stirrings of first love and unveils the beauty that all too often shies away in the face of a perceived emptiness of life. \n\n\n\nDirected by Edward Yang. With Wu Nien-Jen\, Elaine Jin\, Issey Ogata \n\n\n\nTaiwan/Japan 2000\, 35mm\, color\, 173 min. Mandarin\, Min Nan\, Hokkien\, English\, Japanese and French with English subtitles \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-screening-yi-yi-a-one-and-a-two-with-introduction-by-kalli-peng/
LOCATION:Harvard Film Archive\, Carpenter Center\, 24 Quincy St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: A Brighter Summer Day (Guling jie shaonian sharen shijian)\, with introduction by Kalli Peng
DESCRIPTION:Similar to Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s A City of Sadness (1989)\, A Brighter Summer Day also traces the experiences of a large family during a critical historical epoch in Taiwan. Set in the early 1960s\, against the backdrop of a society witnessing the consequences of major demographic shifts and political oppression\, this film depicts the difficult trials awaiting the simple and harmonious life of the Zhang family. With Yang’s exacting demands on the historical accuracy of the props\, such as the family house and the furniture in the classrooms\, A Brighter Summer Day splendidly restores the material historical world to us while inquiring into its zeitgeist. Caught between the world of rock ‘n’ roll\, gang rivalry\, love triangles and the White Terror paranoia\, a group of teenagers are compelled to learn to negotiate the tensions and discrepancy between ideals and reality. The adolescent struggles in grasping that which is worth holding on to\, be it people or principle\, turn out to be an inescapable fate for adults alike. \n\n\n\nWidely considered as Yang’s magnum opus\, this film\, based on a real-life murder\, launched Chang Chen’s acting career at the age of fourteen. The brilliant juxtapositions of light and darkness\, movement and stasis\, sound and silence\, all work together to yield a tragic lonesomeness that even the warmth of a bright summer day cannot cure. \n\n\n\nDirected by Edward Yang. With Chang Chen\, Lisa Yang\, Chang Kuo-Chu \n\n\n\nTaiwan 1991\, DCP\, color\, 237 min. Mandarin\, Min Nan\, Shanghainese and English with English subtitles \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-screening-a-brighter-summer-day-guling-jie-shaonian-sharen-shijian-with-introduction-by-kalli-peng/
LOCATION:Harvard Film Archive\, Carpenter Center\, 24 Quincy St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: A Confucian Confusion (Du li shi dai)
DESCRIPTION:A satirical comedy with biting wit and a romance that is equally suspicious of and hopeful about love\, this film ambitiously negotiates the coexistence of Confucianism with capitalism and democracy. In what feels like a second take of his Taipei Story\, Yang stages a frantic tango that is danced not with two but twelve. A circle of closely knit friends and relatives forms an entangled web of relationships where lost and insecure young professionals (civil servants\, accountants\, businessmen\, publishers\, writers\, and artists) navigate different emotional scenes in a vibrant Taipei. Following a series of misunderstandings\, a pervasive sense of loneliness permeates these densely populated frames\, resulting in a deliberate messiness. Intentionally not a guide for the perplexed\, Yang’s dazzling world melts pretense\, fakeness\, authenticity and sincerity into a confounding pool of restlessness. \n\n\n\nOne of the two least heralded (or screened) films by Edward Yang (the other being Mahjong)\, A Confucian Confusion’sstylistic and narrative experimentation is in fact fiercer than ever\, reflecting his ongoing formal exploration in a diverse oeuvre. Made after directing plays such as Likely Consequence (1992) and Growth Period (1993)\, A Confucian Confusionconducts\, with a bold theatricality\, a brilliant investigation into the challenging sedimentations of traditional ideals of social conformity and hierarchy in a modern age of independence. \n\n\n\nDirected by Edward Yang. With Chen Li-Mei\, Chen Shiang-chyi\, Chen Yi-Wen \n\n\n\nTaiwan 1994\, DCP\, color\, 125 min. Mandarin and Min Nan with English subtitles \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-screening-a-confucian-confusion-du-li-shi-dai/
LOCATION:Harvard Film Archive\, Carpenter Center\, 24 Quincy St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest,Film Screening
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