Film Screening
Film Series – Aging in Asia
CGIS South Room S354 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesMonday, November.13 Old Partner (Korea, 78 min.) Introduced by: Paul Chang, Associate Professor of Sociology, Harvard University Tuesday, November. 14 Baghban (India, 178 min.) Introduced by: Professor Samir Dayal, English and Media Studies, Bentley University Wednesday, November 15 For Fun (Zhao le) (China, 98 min) Introduced by: Haijing Hao, Asia Center Associate; Assistant Professor, Management […]
New Noir: Chinese Crime Films
Brattle Theater 40 Brattle St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesFilm noir, as its meaning “black film” or “film of the night” indicates, is an art of darkness. For its connotation of pessimism and menace, crime, especially unsolved ones, has been a rare event in Chinese cinema, because it is considered by the authority as an admission to the discontents of life in what is […]
Film Series – Aging in Asia
CGIS South Room S354 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesMonday, November.13 Old Partner (Korea, 78 min.) Introduced by: Paul Chang, Associate Professor of Sociology, Harvard University Tuesday, November. 14 Baghban (India, 178 min.) Introduced by: Professor Samir Dayal, English and Media Studies, Bentley University Wednesday, November 15 For Fun (Zhao le) (China, 98 min) Introduced by: Haijing Hao, Asia Center Associate; Assistant Professor, Management […]
Film Screening and In-Person Discussion with the Director – We the Workers
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesShot over a six-year period (2009-15) mainly in the industrial heartland of south China, this film primarily follows labor activists Peng Jiayong and Deng Xiaoming as they find common ground with workers, helping them to negotiate with local officials and factory owners over wages and working conditions. Threats, attacks, detention and boredom become part of […]
Film Screening of “Plastic China” and Q&A with Director Wang Jiuliang
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesAfter the screening, Director Wang Jiuliang will attend via Skype for a Q&A with the audience moderated by Professor Zhang Ling of Boston College and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. The discussion will be interpreted by Canaan Morse, a Ph.D. candidate in Chinese Literature at Harvard. About the Film: As the world’s biggest plastic waste importer, […]
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: China’s Van Goghs (Mandarin with English subtitles, 80 min, HD) Until 1989, Dafen Village on the outskirts of Shenzhen, China was little more than a […]
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 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 […]