Film Screening
Film Screening – China’s Van Goghs
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesThe documentary screening will be followed by a Q&A with Producer and Director Kiki Tianqi Yu via Skype, moderated by Benny Shaffer, PhD Candidate in Media Anthropology. About the film: …
Film Screening: An Elephant Sitting Still
Brattle Theater 40 Brattle St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesThe final event of the spring semester for the Emergent Visions film series will be hosted at the Brattle Theatre in Harvard Square. The event is free and open to the public. SYNOPSIS: An Elephant Sitting Still (大象席地而坐), 2018, HD, Mandarin with English subtitles, 230 min. Under the gloomy sky of a small town in …
Vigil and Memorial: Two Films by Wang Bing
Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center 24 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesAn in-person discussion with Wang Bing follows each film screening. $12 Special Event Tickets This event is co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center's Emergent Visions in Independent Chinese Cinema series, organized by Professor Jie Li, and the Harvard Film Archive. ***NOTE TIME CHANGE*** Friday November 9 at 8pm Mrs. Fang A moving and bracing portrait of …
Film Screening: The Great Buddha
Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center 24 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesDirected by Huang Hsin-yao. With Cres Chuang, Bamboo Chen, Leon Dai Taiwan 2017, DCP, color & b/w, 102 min. Min Nan with English subtitles https://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa General Admission Tickets $9, $7 Non-Harvard Students, Seniors, Harvard Faculty and Staff. Harvard students free
Film Screening – The Stormy Night by Zhu Shouju
Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center 24 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesDiscussant: Shi Chuan, professor, The Shanghai Theater Academy, Vice President of the Shanghai Film Association, and Chief Curator, Shanghai Film Museum. More than 650 films were reportedly made in China between 1921 and 1931, yet no more than twenty have survived the wars that followed. The serendipitous rediscovery of Zhu Shouju’s 1925 film The Stormy Night gives us a rare …
Film Screening and Discussion with Director Hu Jie – The Spark
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesDirector Hu Jie will be in person for a Q&A (Mandarin with English translation) following the screening. Following the Anti-Rightist movement of 1957, a group of Lanzhou University students who had been condemned as Rightists were sent to rural areas in Tianshui, Gansu Province, to be reformed through labor. There they witnessed the violent absurdities …
Film Screening and Discussion with Director Hu Jie – The Spark
Film Screening and Panel Discussion – “One Child Nation”
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesPanel Discussion: Jialing Zhang, Co-Director of “One Child Nation” Mable Chan, Founder of China Personified; One in a Billion Productions Susan Greenhalgh, John King and Wilma Cannon Fairbank Research Professor of Chinese Society, Harvard University Jie Li, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University Karen Thornber, Harry Tuchman Levin Professor in Literature …
Film Screening – Fukuoka
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesDirected by: Zhang Lu Q&A with Director following the screening, moderated by Peng Hai, PhD Candidate, East Asian Languages and Civilizations Hae-hyo and Jea-moon were very good friends in college, eventually going their separate ways after falling in love with the same girl. They have not seen or heard from each other ever since. As …
Film Screening – Jinpa
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesDirected by: Pema Tseden Q&A with Director following the screening, moderated by Benny Shaffer, PhD Candidate, Anthropology On an isolated road passing through the vast barren plains of Tibet, a truck driver who has accidentally run over a sheep chances upon a young man who is hitching a ride. As they drive and chat, the …
Harvard Film Archive Film Screening – Tabooed Initiation: Two Early Films by Mou Tun-Fei
I Didn't Dare Tell You / Bugan gen ni jiang, 78 minutes, Taiwan, 1969. Mandarin with English subtitles. The End of the Track / Pao Dao Zhongdian, 90 minutes, Taiwan, 1970. …
Harvard Film Archive Film Screening – Tabooed Initiation: Two Early Films by Mou Tun-Fei
Film Screenings – The Face of Time: Recent Films by Tsai Ming-Liang
Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center 24 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesRare and valuable is the filmmaker who expands one’s conception of the cinematic art; rarer still is the filmmaker who enlarges one’s notion of the term “director.” Malaysian-born, Taiwan-based auteur Tsai Ming-liang (b. 1957) accomplished the former with his rigorous, uncompromising and reputation-defining features of the nineties and early 2000s, and ever since his self-declared …
Film Screenings – The Face of Time: Recent Films by Tsai Ming-Liang
Film Screening: “The Schools Out of City,” Featuring Discussion with Executive Director (PEER), Hong Liu and Co-producer, Xinran Liang
CGIS South, Room S050 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeakers:Hong Liu, Executive Director of PEER, an NGO dedicated to promoting educational equity in rural China Xinran Liang, Co-producer of the documentary Menghan Shen, Associate Professor of Government, Sun Yat-Sen University; Research Fellow, HKS Rural China. Mysterious, distant, silent. What does it mean to address rural-urban educational inequality in China as an individual and a volunteer? …