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SUMMARY:Film Screening: Mahjong (Ma jiang)
DESCRIPTION:Mahjong is a game for four players\, and the one who first collects winning sets of tiles wins. But the real game lies not in these rectangular pieces per se\, but in deliberating what one already has and could afford to discard or how to acquire from others what one desires but does not yet possess. The funniest and angriest of Yang’s films\, Mahjong questions the sustainability of the dominance of a calculating profit-mindedness and transactional mentality\, incubated in a capitalist madness blown to the point of barbarity. Red Fish\, the son of a missing millionaire\, leads a group of four young men as they swim in the ocean of ambivalent values among European expats\, entrepreneurs\, liars and criminals. A series of surprising events expose a social world where tenderness only makes one vulnerable to be exploited or deceived\, and people—avoiding responsibilities—lack courage to think or make decisions for themselves. Following A Confucian Confusion\, this dark comedy continues to experiment with theatrical forms. Yang’s use of lighting in a scene of an astonishing and dramatically powerful murder recalls Béla Tarr’s intense chamber drama Autumn Almanac (1984). The repeated appearance of T.G.I. Friday’s and the Hard Rock Café\, along with other globalist trinkets\, casts an alluring\, mysterious and uncanny shadow over Taipei’s colorful nightlife. \n\n\n\nDirected by Edward Yang. With Tang Tsung Sheng\, Chang Chen\, Lawrence Ko \n\n\n\nTaiwan 1996\, DCP\, color\, 121 min. Mandarin\, Min Nan 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-mahjong-ma-jiang/
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: The Terrorizers (Kong bu fen zi)
DESCRIPTION:Characterized as “Yang’s most difficult\, intellectually provocative\, and structurally challenging film” (John Anderson)\, Edward Yang’s third feature-length film is a puzzle with immense reverberatory power. The Terrorizers depicts the intertwining of love and death among three different couples: a young photographer and his literary girlfriend; a middle-class and middle-aged married couple whose mutual estrangement grows to the point of no return; and a delinquent duo whose income comes from committing petty pickpocketing and blackmailing. Prank phone calls\, amateur photography\, writer’s block and coveted promotions serendipitously bring these separate lives together. As close relationships come to a dissolution\, the distinctions between life and art\, fiction and reality also edge toward implosion. \n\n\n\nDirected by Edward Yang. With Cora Miao\, Lee Li-Chun\, King Shih-Chieh \n\n\n\nTaiwan 1986\, DCP\, color\, 110 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-the-terrorizers-kong-bu-fen-zi/
LOCATION:Harvard Film Archive\, Carpenter Center\, 24 Quincy St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest,Film Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240415T190000
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: That Day\, on the Beach (Hai tan de yi tian)
DESCRIPTION:A renowned young pianist\, Tan Ching-Ching (Terry Hu) comes back to Taipei for the first time in thirteen years to give a performance. An old friend\, Lin Jia-li (Sylvia Chang)\, gets in touch with her to reconvene over an afternoon coffee. That Day\, on the Beach takes place over a conversation between the two female friends\, during which Ching learns about how the romantic and domestic life of Jia-li and her elder brother evolved over the past decade. Through complex flashbacks\, the microcosmic personal life is revealed to be closely interwoven with the drastic economic and social changes that Taiwan witnessed over the entire 70s. Full of subtle narrative and cinematic surprises\, the film explores the difficulties that accompany freedom\, love and trust; in staging the fragility of any sense of facile contentment and hope\, it makes visible the pleasure and pain entailed in one’s pursuits of happiness. The film also marks the debut of Christopher Doyle as a cinematographer\, best known for his collaborations with Wong Kar-Wai. Released in Taiwan four decades ago\, Edward Yang’s first feature’s length\, storytelling\, and formal ingenuity all speak to his unwavering will to uphold his artistic vision despite all obstacles. \n\n\n\nDirected by Edward Yang. With Sylvia Chang\, Hsu Ming\, Lee Lieh \n\n\n\nTaiwan 1983\, DCP\, color\, 166 min. Mandarin and German with English subtitles \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-screening-that-day-on-the-beach-hai-tan-de-yi-tian/
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:Big Waves\, Great Earthquakes Screening No. 2 – Skirting Censorship in Tibet: No. 16. Barkhor South Street\, featuring an introduction by Janet Gyatso and remarks from Lobsang Sangay
DESCRIPTION:Introduction: Janet Gyatso\, Hershey Professor of Buddhist Studies\, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs\, Harvard Divinity SchoolProgrammer: Sam Maclean\, Communications Manager\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies \n\n\n\nUpdate: Post-screening discussion with Lobsang Sangay\, former Sikyong (President) of the Central Tibetan Administration\, Senior Visiting Fellow\, East Asian Legal Studies\, Harvard Law School. \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\nThe first of three documentaries that Duan Jinchuan shot in Tibet in 1995\, No 16. Barkhor South Street takes obvious cues from American documentary giant Frederick Wiseman in both its focus on the innerworkings of an institution (the Barkhor Neighborhood Committee\, a Communist Party-directed office in Lhasa that conducts community mediation and encourages Party registration) and in its “direct cinema” style. The film offers us a rare glimpse inside a government office of the People’s Republic. Police recruits native to Lhasa are seen in classrooms learning modern Chinese history\, a sequence with parallels to the ‘re-education’ of Uyghurs in Xinjiang today. Various meetings are held to stress\, with unconvincing congeniality\, the paramount importance of active opposition to separatism—especially as the Committee (and Lhasa at large) prepares to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Tibetan Autonomous Region. Duan demonstrates a complete understanding of the complex social dynamics in front of his camera\, whether it’s the demand for assimilation from the residents\, as measured against the rigorous approval-requirements for anyone to join the Party\, or the overwhelmed feelings of officials as they struggle to apply modern legal rationale to familial conflicts clearly rooted in immovable\, indigenous Buddhist traditions. \n\n\n\nProfessor Janet Gyatso (珍妮·嘉措) is a specialist in Buddhist studies with concentration on Tibetan and South Asian cultural and intellectual history. Her books include Apparitions of the Self: The Secret Autobiographies of a Tibetan Visionary; In the Mirror of Memory: Reflections on Mindfulness and Remembrance in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism; and Women of Tibet. She has recently completed a new book\, Being Human in a Buddhist World: An Intellectual History of Medicine in Early Modern Tibet (Columbia University Press\, 2015)\, which focuses upon alternative early modernities and the conjunctions and disjunctures between religious and scientific epistemologies in Tibetan medicine in the sixteenth–eighteenth centuries. She has also been writing on sex and gender in Buddhist monasticism\, and on the current female ordination movement in Buddhism. Previous topics of her scholarship have included visionary revelation in Buddhism; lineage\, memory\, and authorship; the philosophy of experience; and autobiographical writing in Tibet.  \n\n\n\nNo. 16 Barkhor South Street directed by Duan Jinchuan. China\, 1996\, documentary\, 96 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/big-waves-great-earthquakes-screening-no-2-skirting-censorship-in-tibet-no-16-barkhor-south-street-featuring-an-introduction-by-janet-gyatso/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film Screening
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SUMMARY:Tiananmen @ 35 Film Screening: The Gate of Heavenly Peace
DESCRIPTION:Introduction: Carma Hinton\, Art historian and Documentary Filmmaker; Robinson Professor of Visual Culture and Chinese Studies\, George Mason University (retired) \n\n\n\n“In The Gate of Heavenly Peace (the literal translation of the name Tiananmen)\, the causes\, effects and fallout from the six-week protest that led up to the Chinese government’s crackdown on dissidents are detailed with intelligence\, grace and toughness. Filmmakers Carma Hinton and Richard Gordon have transformed news into history\, and history into art.” — Michael Blowen\, The Boston Globe   \n\n\n\nThe Gate of Heavenly Peace chronicles the heroism\, drama\, tension\, humor\, absurdity\, and many tragedies of the peaceful popular protests during the spring weeks of 1989\, culminating on June 4th\, when the government’s bloody crackdown dashed the hopes of millions. Using archival footage and contemporary interviews with a wide range of Chinese citizens\, including students\, workers\, intellectuals\, and government officials\, the film reveals how the hard-liners within the government marginalized moderates among the protesters\, resulting in the voices for reason gradually being cowed and then silenced by extremism and emotionalism on both sides. \n\n\n\nIt is a sobering tale\, for faced with the binary opposition between hardened stances\, there has been little middle ground left for the rational and thoughtful proponents of positive reform in China. By giving these ignored voices their proper place in history\, The Gate of Heavenly Peace reveals an ongoing debate in 20th century China regarding revolution and reform\, as well as the importance of personal responsibility and moral integrity\, the need\, as Vaclav Havel has put it\, to “live in the truth.” \n\n\n\nCarma Hinton is an art historian and a filmmaker. She was born in Beijing\, and Chinese is her first language and culture. She received her Ph.D. in Art History from Harvard University and taught at various universities between major film projects. Together with Richard Gordon\, Hinton has directed many documentary films on China\, including Small Happiness\, All Under Heaven\, To Taste a Hundred Herbs\, Abode of Illusion: The Life and Art of Chang Dai-chien\, The Gate of Heavenly Peace\, and Morning Sun. She has won two Peabody Awards\, the American Historical Association’s John E. O’Connor Film Award\, the International Critics Prize and the Best Social and Political Documentary at the Banff Television Festival\, among others. She retired from her position as Robinson Professor of Visual Culture and Chinese Studies at George Mason University recently to focus on her book about traditional Chinese scrolls depicting the theme of demon quelling and work on the extensive archive of film and other visual materials she and Richard Gordon collected over decades of research and film production.  \n\n\n\nThe Gate of Heavenly Peace produced and directed by Carma Hinton and Richard Gordon. United States\, 1995\, documentary\, 187 min. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/tiananmen-35-film-screening-the-gate-of-heavenly-peace/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film Screening,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240422T190000
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: In Our Time (Guang yin de gu shi)
DESCRIPTION:The omnibus film In Our Time initiated radical innovations in terms of aesthetic styles\, industry practices and commonly depicted themes\, thereby revolutionizing the filmmaking industry in Taiwan and inaugurating the movement of Taiwan New Cinema. The four segments are shot by four young emerging directors and each film—set in different decades from the 1950s to the 1980s—represents roughly one of the four younger stages of life: childhood\, adolescence\, young adulthood (in college) and married life (as working professionals). \n\n\n\nTitled Expectations\, sometimes translated as Desires\, Edward Yang’s segment features a series of sensitive and expressive vignettes that depict the growing pains of adolescents in mid-60s Taiwan. Yang sees the placement of the second short film as structurally akin to the second movement in a symphony\, typically characterized by its lyrical and slow nature. The teenaged Hsiao-Fen (Shi An-Ni) serves as a kind of prototype for other young heroines in Yang’s cinematic corpus. The diversity of the cinematic techniques used in his debut short film accentuates the complexity of the protagonist’s emotional and perceptual experience. \n\n\n\nDirected by Edward Yang\, Chang Yi\, Ko I-Chen and Tao Te-Chen. With Sylvia Chang\, Emily Y. Chang\, Lee Li-Chun \n\n\n\nTaiwan 1982\, DCP\, color\, 110 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-taipei-story-qing-mei-zhu-ma-2/
LOCATION:Harvard Film Archive\, Carpenter Center\, 24 Quincy St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest,Film Screening
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