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SUMMARY:Film Screening - Fukuoka
DESCRIPTION:Directed by: Zhang Lu\nQ&A with Director following the screening\, moderated by Peng Hai\, PhD Candidate\, East Asian Languages and Civilizations \nHae-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 time passes and Jea-moon approaches middle age\, the memory of his college life becomes ever more refreshed\, and begins to haunt him more and more. At this moment\, a strange girl\, So-dam\, not only intrudes into his quiet second-hand bookstore\, but also disturbs his life\, urging him to set out on a long journey to Japan to look for Hae-hyo. In Japan\, when the three of them finally meet in a local pub\, can the problems of their past be reconciled? \nAbout the Director:\nZhang Lu is a third-generation ethnically Korean filmmaker born in Yanbian\, Jilin Province\, China in 1962. He began his career with short film Eleven (2000)\, which was invited to Venice International Film Festival. His debut feature film Tang Poetry (2003) premiered at Locarno International Film Festival. His second feature Grain in Ear (2005) won the ACID award at Cannes Critics’ Week and the New Currents Award at Busan International Film Festival. Desert Dream (2007) and Dooman River (2011) were selected for the Berlin International Film Festival. Gyeongju (2014) was in the competition at Locarno Film Festival. He served on the jury at Busan International Film Festival in 2016\, and his feature A Quiet Dream (2006) was screened as the opening film of the festival that year. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Beijing Contemporary Art Foundation (BCAF) and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. Special thanks to Parallax Films.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-screening-fukuoka/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Emergent Visions Film Screening,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:Film Screening and Panel Discussion - "One Child Nation"
DESCRIPTION:Panel Discussion:\nJialing Zhang\, Co-Director of “One Child Nation”\nMable Chan\, Founder of China Personified; One in a Billion Productions\nSusan Greenhalgh\, John King and Wilma Cannon Fairbank Research Professor of Chinese Society\, Harvard University\nJie Li\, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities\, Harvard University\nKaren Thornber\, Harry Tuchman Levin Professor in Literature and Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University \nCo-sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-screening-and-panel-discussion-one-child-nation/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Emergent Visions Film Screening,Events of Interest,Film Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190509T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190509T183000
DTSTAMP:20260507T194224
CREATED:20190419T151822Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190419T151822Z
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SUMMARY:Film Screening and Discussion with Director Hu Jie - The Spark
DESCRIPTION:Director Hu Jie will be in person for a Q&A (Mandarin with English translation) following the screening.  \nFollowing 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 of the Great Leap Forward and the mass starvation and deaths of the Great Famine. In response\, they started an underground publication\, which they called The Spark\, in which they exposed exaggerated local harvest reports along with rural poverty and starvation. They also initiated a profound theoretical analysis and criticism of the structure of the People’s Commune\, placing blame for the Great Leap Forward on the Communi The publication also carried Lin Zhao’s long poem “Prometheus’s Day of Passion.” The Spark is the only extant unofficial\, intellectual periodical from the time of the Great Famine. In the end\, 43 people\, including the Rightist teachers and students who were connected with its publication\, as well as the peasants and rural cadres who sympathized with them\, were arrested and given long prison sentences. Among them\, three key figures—Zhang Chunyuan\, county party secretary Du Yinghua\, and Lin Zhao—were executed during the Cultural Revolution.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-screening-and-discussion-with-director-hu-jie-the-spark/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Emergent Visions Film Screening,Film Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190302T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190302T210000
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SUMMARY:Film Screening - The Stormy Night by Zhu Shouju
DESCRIPTION:Discussant: Shi Chuan\, professor\, The Shanghai Theater Academy\, Vice President of the Shanghai Film Association\, and Chief Curator\, Shanghai Film Museum. \nMore 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 opportunity to learn about this significant yet forgotten era of Chinese silent cinema. \nhttps://library.harvard.edu/film/films/2019marmay/stormy.html \n 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-screening-the-stormy-night-by-zhu-shouju/
LOCATION:Harvard Film Archive\, Carpenter Center\, 24 Quincy St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Emergent Visions Film Screening,Film Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181126T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181126T210000
DTSTAMP:20260507T194224
CREATED:20181022T182908Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181022T182908Z
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: The Great Buddha
DESCRIPTION:Directed by Huang Hsin-yao. With Cres Chuang\, Bamboo Chen\, Leon Dai\nTaiwan 2017\, DCP\, color & b/w\, 102 min. Min Nan with English subtitles \nhttps://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa\nGeneral Admission Tickets $9\, $7 Non-Harvard Students\, Seniors\, Harvard Faculty and Staff. Harvard students free
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-screening-the-great-buddha/
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:20181110T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181110T230000
DTSTAMP:20260507T194224
CREATED:20181010T184422Z
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SUMMARY:Vigil and Memorial: Two Films by Wang Bing
DESCRIPTION:An in-person discussion with Wang Bing follows each film screening.\n$12 Special Event Tickets \nThis 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. \n***NOTE TIME CHANGE***\nFriday November 9 at 8pm \nMrs. Fang\nA moving and bracing portrait of a dying woman and her family\, Mrs. Fang offers a remarkable variation of Wang Bing’s engaged cinema that demands the viewer to empathize and experience\, in real time and real emotion\, the intense yet poetically unfolding human dramas captured by his unwavering camera. Wang Bing’s shortest feature to date is among his most ethically and structurally profound—balanced between extended close-ups of the frail Fang Xiuying\, locked into an open-eyed coma\, and tender scenes of her family alternately overcome by grief and matter-of-factly accepting the inevitable. Most surprising are the sequences featuring two family members leaving Mrs. Fang’s small home to go night fishing\, an exercise that gently carries the weight of spiritual metaphor: a search for sustenance\, survival\, friendship in a cold\, dark world. \nSaturday November 10 at 2pm \nDead Souls\nAt eight hours and fifteen minutes\, Dead Souls is based on interviews\, footage and other memory traces Wang Bing gathered over twelve years\, from more than 120 people across various provinces. Covering a period from the Anti-Rightist Campaign of 1957 to the end of the Great Leap famine in 1961\, most of the film features testimonies from survivors of a “re-education camp” in northwestern China\, many once “revolutionaries” who were then “revolutionized.” Incarcerated for minor criticisms of the Party\, for past support of the Kuomintang\, for Christian faith\, or for no reason they can fathom\, former camp inmates recount recipes of starvation\, logistics of death and ruinations of families. Occasionally we also see their wives in the margins of the frame or hear offscreen voices of children too young to understand. The overlay of their testimonies—full of resonances\, contradictions\, digressions and silences—metonymically point to past injustice and suffering at a much larger scale.  While Wang Bing explored the same harrowing topic of the Jiabiangou labor camp in previous work such as Fengming: A Chinese Memoir (2007) and The Ditch (2010)\, the monumental scale\, unsensational precision and multiple perspectives of Dead Souls have drawn comparisons to Claude Lanzmann’s Holocaust documentary Shoah. Mediating testimony for those who can no longer bear witness for themselves\, Dead Souls invites us to partake in a belated memorial service for the victims of the Maoist revolution still condemned to state-sponsored amnesia.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/vigil-and-memorial-two-films-by-wang-bing-2018-11-10/
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:20180501T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180501T200000
DTSTAMP:20260507T194224
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: An Elephant Sitting Still
DESCRIPTION:The 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. \nSYNOPSIS: \nAn Elephant Sitting Still (大象席地而坐)\, 2018\, HD\, Mandarin with English subtitles\, 230 min. \nUnder the gloomy sky of a small town in northern China\, different protagonists’ lives are intertwined in this lugubrious tale of nihilistic rage. To protect his friend\, 16-year-old Wei Bu pushes the school bully down a staircase and escapes the scene after the bully becomes hospitalized with his life hanging by a thread. Wei’s neighbor\, the 60-year-old Wang Jin\, is estranged from his family and decides to join him. Huang Ling\, Wei’s classmate\, is bedeviled by an affair with a school official. Together\, the desperate three decide to flee as the wounded bully’s hooligan brother\, the school authorities\, and the parents all go on a cold-blooded hunt for Wei across town. As Wei treads through the wilderness\, he finally confronts his own reality. He later boards a long-distance bus with Huang and Wang toward Manchuria\, where a circus elephant is said to be sitting still. \nDIRECTOR’S STATEMENT \n“He thought that in the beauty of the world were hid a secret. He thought that the world’s heartbeat at some terrible cost and that the world’s pain and its beauty moved in a relationship of diverging equity and that in this headlong deficit the blood of multitudes might ultimately be exacted for the vision of a single flower.” This quote from Cormac McCarthy is also the subject of this film. In our age\, it’s increasingly hard for us to have faith even in the tiniest of things\, and the frustration from which becomes the hallmark of today’s society. The film builds up personal myths in between daily routines. In the end\, everyone loses what he or she values the most. \nOfficial Selection of the 2018 Berlin International Film Festival\, and the New Directors/New Films 2018 presented by the Film Society of Lincoln Center and MoMA. \nDIRECTOR’S BIO: \nHU Bo (Writer and Director)\, born in 1988 in China\, graduated from the Beijing Film Academy in 2014 with a B.F.A. in directing. His short film Distant Father (2014) won Best Director at Golden Koala Chinese Film Festival\, and Night Runner (2014) was selected by the Taipei Golden Horse Film Academy. His debut feature An Elephant Sitting Still\, which was then still in progress\, was selected by the FIRST \nInternational Film Festival Financing Forum in 2016. In the following year\, Hu Bo participated in FIRST Training Camp under the supervision of Béla Tarr\, where he completed the short film Man in the Well. He has also written two novels Huge Crack and Bullfrog\, both published in 2017. Hu Bo took his own life soon after finishing An Elephant Sitting Still. \nThis event is sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University. Emergent Visions is a screening and discussion series that showcases new and innovative works of digital cinema from China. \n  \n 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-screening-an-elephant-sitting-still/
LOCATION:Brattle Theater\, 40 Brattle St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Emergent Visions Film Screening,Film Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180320T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180320T180000
DTSTAMP:20260507T194224
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SUMMARY:Film Screening - China's Van Goghs
DESCRIPTION:The 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. \n About the film:\nChina’s Van Goghs (Mandarin with English subtitles\, 80 min\, HD) \nUntil 1989\, Dafen Village on the outskirts of Shenzhen\, China was little more than a rural hamlet. It now has a population of 10\,000\, which includes hundreds of peasants-turned-oil painters. In their studios\, and even in its alleyways\, Dafen’s painters produce thousands of replicas of world-famous Western paintings. No one thinks much of an order for 200 Van Goghs. To meet deadlines\, painters sleep on the floor between clotheslines strung with reproduced masterpieces. In 2015\, the revenue from painting sales was over $65 million. In China’s Van Goghs\, directors Haibo Yu and Kiki Tianqi Yu follow one of the village’s most celebrated painters\, Xiaoyong Zhao\, who with the help of his family members has painted around 100\,000 Van Goghs. After all these years\, Zhao feels a profound affinity with Van Gogh. Having never seen Van Gogh’s original paintings\, Zhao’s biggest dream is to travel to Amsterdam to see the works of his legendary inspiration. After struggling and saving up for many years\, he fulfills his dream. The documentary not only presents how this painter pursues his vision\, but also tells the human story of challenge and struggle throughout his journey\, which is ultimately emblematic of the transformative journey that China is undergoing from “Made in China” to “Created in China.” \nAfter its premier at International Documentary Filmfestival Amsterdam (IDFA) in 2016\, China’s Van Goghs has been shown at Helsinki Documentary Film Festival DocPoint\, Thessaloniki Film Festival\,  Visions Du Reel\, New Zealand International Film Festival\, DMZ Docs South Korea\, British Film Institute London’s special program\, and over twenty other film festivals. It has won Best Feature Documentary (international co-production) at Beijing International Film Festival and Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival\, as well as Best Feature Documentary at Los Angeles Chinese Film Festival. \nAbout the Directors: \nProducer and Co-director:\nKiki Tianqi YU is a filmmaker\, scholar\, and film curator. Originally from China\, Kiki studied film and sociology at the University of Westminster and the University of Cambridge. Having lectured in China\, she is currently Lecturer in Filmmaking at the University of the West of Scotland. Yu has published on first person documentary\, Chinese cinema\, amateur cinema and memory in Studies in Documentary Film\, Journal of Chinese Cinemas\, Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art\, and other publications. She is the author of the forthcoming monograph My ‘Self’ On Camera: First Person Documentary Practice in an Individualizing China (Edinburg University Press\, 2018)\, and the co-editor of China’s iGeneration: Cinema and Moving Image Culture for the 21st Century (2014). Her films include Photographing Shenzhen (2007)\, Memory of Home (2009)\, and the feature-length documentary China’s Van Goghs (IDFA\, 2016)\, which won seven international awards and screened at over twenty film festivals. \nCo-director and Cinematographer:\nYU Haibo is a filmmaker and a well-known Chinese documentary photographer. He serves as the Director of the Shenzhen Professional Photographers Association and the Chief Photo Editor of Shenzhen Economic Daily. His most prominent photo series\, “China Dafen Oil Painting Village\,” won the 49th World Press Photography Contest in 2006\, and was acquired by the San Francisco Modern Art Museum\, and V&A Museum\, London. Yu is a pioneer in surrealist photography in China through his work “On the Other Riverside of the Illusion Chain\,” which won the top prize at the 15th National Photography Exhibition in 1988. Since 1989\, he has been working on documentary photography\, and his photo series including “Tibet\,” “Music Youth\,” “China’s Urban Expansion\,” have won many prizes and been exhibited internationally. Yu published a book Living in China’s Shenzhen (2008)\, and a photo-essay film One Man’s Shenzhen (2012). \nThis event is sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. Emergent Visions is a screening and discussion series that showcases new and innovative works of digital cinema from China.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-screening-chinas-van-goghs/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Emergent Visions Film Screening,Film Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171128T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171128T210000
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SUMMARY:Film Screening of "Plastic China" and Q&A with Director Wang Jiuliang
DESCRIPTION:After 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.  \nAbout the Film: As the world’s biggest plastic waste importer\, China receives ten million tons per year from most of the developed countries around the world. With high external costs impacting the local environment and health\, these imports are reborn here in these plastic workshops into “recycled” raw materials for the appetite of China – the world factory. This waste is then exported back to where they came from with a new face such as manufactured clothing or toys. Following the daily lives of two families living in a typical plastic waste household-recycling workshop\, PLASTIC CHINA explores how this work of recycling plastic waste with their bare hands takes a toll not only on their health\, but also their own dilemma of poverty\, disease\, pollution and death. \nAbout the Director: Director of the award-winning documentary film BEIJING BESIEGED BY WASTE\, WANG Jiuliang graduated from the School of Cinematic Arts of the Communication University of China in 2007. From 2007 to 2008\, he finished a set of photographic works about Chinese traditional superstitions. He started investigating landfill pollution around Beijing in 2008\, and in 2011\, finished BEIJING BESIEGED BY WASTE\, a set of photographic works and a documentary with the same name. Since 2012\, he has been working on and promoting the documentary PLASTIC CHINA. \nBoston-area premiere co-sponsored by the Harvard-China Project on Energy\, Economy and Environment\, Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences; Environment in Asia Series\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies; and Emergent Visions Film Screening Series\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. \nFree admission to the film screening is made possible through the generous support of the Harvard Global Institute. 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-screening-of-plastic-china-and-qa-with-director-wang-jiuliang/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Emergent Visions Film Screening,Environment,Environment,Events of Interest,Film Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171117T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171117T210000
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CREATED:20171026T162151Z
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SUMMARY:Film Screening and In-Person Discussion with the Director - We the Workers
DESCRIPTION:Shot 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. \nThreats\, attacks\, detention and boredom become part of their daily lives as they struggle to strengthen worker solidarity in the face of pressure from police and their employers. In the process\, we see in their words and actions the emergence of a nascent working class consciousness and labor movement in China. \nDirected by Wen Hai\nWen Hai studied at the Beijing Film Academy and has since 2001 been active as an independent film director. Among his best known films are Floating Dust (2003)\, that won him the Georges Beauregard award at the 16th Festival International du Documentaire in Marseille in 2005\, Dream Walking (2005)\, and the We that won the Horizons Special Mention award at the 2008 Venice International Film Festival. He also worked as a cameraman on Wang Bing’s film Three Sisters (2012). \n  \nPlease note that there will also be a screening of Wen Hai’s 2008 film WE at Boston University on Thursday Nov 16\, 2017 at 7pm\, with the filmmaker available for Q&A afterwards.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-screening-and-in-person-discussion-with-the-director-we-the-workers/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Emergent Visions Film Screening,Film Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171116T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171116T190000
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CREATED:20171026T163442Z
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SUMMARY:Film Series - Aging in Asia
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, November.13\nOld Partner (Korea\, 78 min.)\nIntroduced by: Paul Chang\, Associate Professor of Sociology\, Harvard University \nTuesday\, November. 14\nBaghban (India\, 178 min.)\nIntroduced by: Professor Samir Dayal\, English and Media Studies\, Bentley University \nWednesday\, November 15\nFor Fun (Zhao le) (China\, 98 min)\nIntroduced by: Haijing Hao\, Asia Center Associate; Assistant Professor\, Management Science and Information Systems Department\, College of Management\, University of Massachusetts\, Boston \nThursday\, November 16\nPecoross’ Mother and Her Days (Japan\, 113 min.)\nIntroduced by: Alexander Zahlten\, Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University \nRefreshments provided \nCo-sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Korea Institute\, Lakshmi Mittal South Asia Institute\, and Reischauer Institute
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-series-aging-in-asia-2017-11-16/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S354\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest,Film Screening,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171115T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171115T230000
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UID:6155-1510777800-1510786800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:New Noir: Chinese Crime Films
DESCRIPTION:Film 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 supposed to be the people’s paradise. Recently\, however\, a new generation of young auteurs\, working independently\, has been reworking the tropes of Chinese spy film to address the country’s endemic corruption and violence\, with films that portray drifting killers\, frustrated police\, and fatal beauties\, all enmeshed in a web of vice and desire. Starting with BLACK COAL\, THIN ICE\, a landmark in Chinese crime film\, and ending with FREE AND EASY\, a post-apocalyptic dark comedy\, this program is a witness to the birth of the Chinese mainland school of noir. \nNew Noir is part of the Creative China Festival\, curated by Meng Xie\, supported by Beijing Contemporary Art Foundation. \nCo-presented by Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies \nPlease Note: Tickets are $11 each for general public\, $9 for students and Brattle members\, and $8 for seniors.  A total of 50 free tickets for screenings in the series are available to Harvard ID holders on a first-come\, first-serve basis.  Please show your Harvard ID at the box office up to half an hour before the screening.  No advanced reservations are accepted for these free tickets.  \nBLACK COAL\, THIN ICE (2014) dir. Diao Yinan w/ Liao Fan\, Kwei Lun-Mei\, Wang Xuebing [110 min; DCP]\nSun\, Nov 12 at 5:30pm\nA landmark in Chinese crime film\, BLACK COAL\, THIN ICE is a dazzlingly stylized mystery that blends Fincher-esque genre elements and social commentary. It all begins with the discovery of a hand on a coal conveyor belt. Cop Zhang (Liao Fan) tries to solve the case but\, years later\, the body parts are still showing up. The film won the Golden Bear for Best Film\, as well as the Silver Bear for Best Actor\, at the 2014 Berlin International Film Festival. \nTHE DEAD END (2015) dir. Cao Baoping w/Deng Chao\, Duan Yuhong\, Guo Tao [139 min; DCP]\nSun\, Nov 12 at 8:00pm\nWith Dostoevskian undertones\, THE DEAD END is a gritty tale of redemption for three men—a cop\, a cab driver\, and a recluse—who are haunted by shared guilt over their murderous misdeeds in an unsolved crime. \nLETHAL HOSTAGE (2012) dir. Cheng Er w/Ni Dahong\, Sun Honglei\, Wang Luodan [97 min; DCP]\nMon\, Nov 13 at 8:30pm\nAn ingeniously structured psychological thriller\, LETHAL HOSTAGE takes place in a crumbling town on the China-Myanmar border.  A woman marrying her kidnapper is only the beginning of a series of emotional knots and dramatic twists in this superbly constructed crime drama. \nTHE COFFIN IN THE MOUNTAIN (2014) dir. Xin Yukun w/Huo Weimin\, Wang Xiaotian\, Luo Yun [119 min; DCP]\nTue\, Nov 14 at 8:30pm\nA striking feature directorial debut\, THE COFFIN IN THE MOUNTAIN is an unflinching depiction of provincial entrapment where people’s lives are intricately intertwined through an accidental death. With an ingeniously constructed timeline\, the film morphs from mystery to suspense and finally to irony. \nFREE + EASY (2017) dir. Geng Jun w/Xu Gang\, Zhang Zhiyong\, Xue Baohe [98 min; DCP]\nWed\, Nov 15 at 8:30pm\nWith tinges of the Coen Brothers\, Jim Jarmusch\, and Samuel Beckett\, director Geng presents a portrait of a socio-economic system so flawed that it has veered into black comedy – a practically post-apocalyptic world where crime is the new normal. In a Northern Chinese industrial town\, everyone – even the local monk – is running a con and the police are more interested in chasing girls than criminals. \nWinner of a special jury award at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/new-noir-chinese-crime-films-2017-11-15/
LOCATION:Brattle Theater\, 40 Brattle St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Emergent Visions Film Screening,Events of Interest,Film Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171115T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171115T190000
DTSTAMP:20260507T194224
CREATED:20171026T163442Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171026T163442Z
UID:6187-1510761600-1510772400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Film Series - Aging in Asia
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, November.13\nOld Partner (Korea\, 78 min.)\nIntroduced by: Paul Chang\, Associate Professor of Sociology\, Harvard University \nTuesday\, November. 14\nBaghban (India\, 178 min.)\nIntroduced by: Professor Samir Dayal\, English and Media Studies\, Bentley University \nWednesday\, November 15\nFor Fun (Zhao le) (China\, 98 min)\nIntroduced by: Haijing Hao\, Asia Center Associate; Assistant Professor\, Management Science and Information Systems Department\, College of Management\, University of Massachusetts\, Boston \nThursday\, November 16\nPecoross’ Mother and Her Days (Japan\, 113 min.)\nIntroduced by: Alexander Zahlten\, Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University \nRefreshments provided \nCo-sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Korea Institute\, Lakshmi Mittal South Asia Institute\, and Reischauer Institute
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-series-aging-in-asia-2017-11-15/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S354\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest,Film Screening,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171114T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171114T230000
DTSTAMP:20260507T194224
CREATED:20171024T151434Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171024T151434Z
UID:6154-1510691400-1510700400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:New Noir: Chinese Crime Films
DESCRIPTION:Film 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 supposed to be the people’s paradise. Recently\, however\, a new generation of young auteurs\, working independently\, has been reworking the tropes of Chinese spy film to address the country’s endemic corruption and violence\, with films that portray drifting killers\, frustrated police\, and fatal beauties\, all enmeshed in a web of vice and desire. Starting with BLACK COAL\, THIN ICE\, a landmark in Chinese crime film\, and ending with FREE AND EASY\, a post-apocalyptic dark comedy\, this program is a witness to the birth of the Chinese mainland school of noir. \nNew Noir is part of the Creative China Festival\, curated by Meng Xie\, supported by Beijing Contemporary Art Foundation. \nCo-presented by Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies \nPlease Note: Tickets are $11 each for general public\, $9 for students and Brattle members\, and $8 for seniors.  A total of 50 free tickets for screenings in the series are available to Harvard ID holders on a first-come\, first-serve basis.  Please show your Harvard ID at the box office up to half an hour before the screening.  No advanced reservations are accepted for these free tickets.  \nBLACK COAL\, THIN ICE (2014) dir. Diao Yinan w/ Liao Fan\, Kwei Lun-Mei\, Wang Xuebing [110 min; DCP]\nSun\, Nov 12 at 5:30pm\nA landmark in Chinese crime film\, BLACK COAL\, THIN ICE is a dazzlingly stylized mystery that blends Fincher-esque genre elements and social commentary. It all begins with the discovery of a hand on a coal conveyor belt. Cop Zhang (Liao Fan) tries to solve the case but\, years later\, the body parts are still showing up. The film won the Golden Bear for Best Film\, as well as the Silver Bear for Best Actor\, at the 2014 Berlin International Film Festival. \nTHE DEAD END (2015) dir. Cao Baoping w/Deng Chao\, Duan Yuhong\, Guo Tao [139 min; DCP]\nSun\, Nov 12 at 8:00pm\nWith Dostoevskian undertones\, THE DEAD END is a gritty tale of redemption for three men—a cop\, a cab driver\, and a recluse—who are haunted by shared guilt over their murderous misdeeds in an unsolved crime. \nLETHAL HOSTAGE (2012) dir. Cheng Er w/Ni Dahong\, Sun Honglei\, Wang Luodan [97 min; DCP]\nMon\, Nov 13 at 8:30pm\nAn ingeniously structured psychological thriller\, LETHAL HOSTAGE takes place in a crumbling town on the China-Myanmar border.  A woman marrying her kidnapper is only the beginning of a series of emotional knots and dramatic twists in this superbly constructed crime drama. \nTHE COFFIN IN THE MOUNTAIN (2014) dir. Xin Yukun w/Huo Weimin\, Wang Xiaotian\, Luo Yun [119 min; DCP]\nTue\, Nov 14 at 8:30pm\nA striking feature directorial debut\, THE COFFIN IN THE MOUNTAIN is an unflinching depiction of provincial entrapment where people’s lives are intricately intertwined through an accidental death. With an ingeniously constructed timeline\, the film morphs from mystery to suspense and finally to irony. \nFREE + EASY (2017) dir. Geng Jun w/Xu Gang\, Zhang Zhiyong\, Xue Baohe [98 min; DCP]\nWed\, Nov 15 at 8:30pm\nWith tinges of the Coen Brothers\, Jim Jarmusch\, and Samuel Beckett\, director Geng presents a portrait of a socio-economic system so flawed that it has veered into black comedy – a practically post-apocalyptic world where crime is the new normal. In a Northern Chinese industrial town\, everyone – even the local monk – is running a con and the police are more interested in chasing girls than criminals. \nWinner of a special jury award at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/new-noir-chinese-crime-films-2017-11-14/
LOCATION:Brattle Theater\, 40 Brattle St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Emergent Visions Film Screening,Events of Interest,Film Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171114T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171114T190000
DTSTAMP:20260507T194224
CREATED:20171026T163442Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171026T163442Z
UID:6186-1510675200-1510686000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Film Series - Aging in Asia
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, November.13\nOld Partner (Korea\, 78 min.)\nIntroduced by: Paul Chang\, Associate Professor of Sociology\, Harvard University \nTuesday\, November. 14\nBaghban (India\, 178 min.)\nIntroduced by: Professor Samir Dayal\, English and Media Studies\, Bentley University \nWednesday\, November 15\nFor Fun (Zhao le) (China\, 98 min)\nIntroduced by: Haijing Hao\, Asia Center Associate; Assistant Professor\, Management Science and Information Systems Department\, College of Management\, University of Massachusetts\, Boston \nThursday\, November 16\nPecoross’ Mother and Her Days (Japan\, 113 min.)\nIntroduced by: Alexander Zahlten\, Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University \nRefreshments provided \nCo-sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Korea Institute\, Lakshmi Mittal South Asia Institute\, and Reischauer Institute
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-series-aging-in-asia-2017-11-14/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S354\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest,Film Screening,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171113T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171113T230000
DTSTAMP:20260507T194224
CREATED:20171024T151434Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171024T151434Z
UID:6153-1510605000-1510614000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:New Noir: Chinese Crime Films
DESCRIPTION:Film 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 supposed to be the people’s paradise. Recently\, however\, a new generation of young auteurs\, working independently\, has been reworking the tropes of Chinese spy film to address the country’s endemic corruption and violence\, with films that portray drifting killers\, frustrated police\, and fatal beauties\, all enmeshed in a web of vice and desire. Starting with BLACK COAL\, THIN ICE\, a landmark in Chinese crime film\, and ending with FREE AND EASY\, a post-apocalyptic dark comedy\, this program is a witness to the birth of the Chinese mainland school of noir. \nNew Noir is part of the Creative China Festival\, curated by Meng Xie\, supported by Beijing Contemporary Art Foundation. \nCo-presented by Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies \nPlease Note: Tickets are $11 each for general public\, $9 for students and Brattle members\, and $8 for seniors.  A total of 50 free tickets for screenings in the series are available to Harvard ID holders on a first-come\, first-serve basis.  Please show your Harvard ID at the box office up to half an hour before the screening.  No advanced reservations are accepted for these free tickets.  \nBLACK COAL\, THIN ICE (2014) dir. Diao Yinan w/ Liao Fan\, Kwei Lun-Mei\, Wang Xuebing [110 min; DCP]\nSun\, Nov 12 at 5:30pm\nA landmark in Chinese crime film\, BLACK COAL\, THIN ICE is a dazzlingly stylized mystery that blends Fincher-esque genre elements and social commentary. It all begins with the discovery of a hand on a coal conveyor belt. Cop Zhang (Liao Fan) tries to solve the case but\, years later\, the body parts are still showing up. The film won the Golden Bear for Best Film\, as well as the Silver Bear for Best Actor\, at the 2014 Berlin International Film Festival. \nTHE DEAD END (2015) dir. Cao Baoping w/Deng Chao\, Duan Yuhong\, Guo Tao [139 min; DCP]\nSun\, Nov 12 at 8:00pm\nWith Dostoevskian undertones\, THE DEAD END is a gritty tale of redemption for three men—a cop\, a cab driver\, and a recluse—who are haunted by shared guilt over their murderous misdeeds in an unsolved crime. \nLETHAL HOSTAGE (2012) dir. Cheng Er w/Ni Dahong\, Sun Honglei\, Wang Luodan [97 min; DCP]\nMon\, Nov 13 at 8:30pm\nAn ingeniously structured psychological thriller\, LETHAL HOSTAGE takes place in a crumbling town on the China-Myanmar border.  A woman marrying her kidnapper is only the beginning of a series of emotional knots and dramatic twists in this superbly constructed crime drama. \nTHE COFFIN IN THE MOUNTAIN (2014) dir. Xin Yukun w/Huo Weimin\, Wang Xiaotian\, Luo Yun [119 min; DCP]\nTue\, Nov 14 at 8:30pm\nA striking feature directorial debut\, THE COFFIN IN THE MOUNTAIN is an unflinching depiction of provincial entrapment where people’s lives are intricately intertwined through an accidental death. With an ingeniously constructed timeline\, the film morphs from mystery to suspense and finally to irony. \nFREE + EASY (2017) dir. Geng Jun w/Xu Gang\, Zhang Zhiyong\, Xue Baohe [98 min; DCP]\nWed\, Nov 15 at 8:30pm\nWith tinges of the Coen Brothers\, Jim Jarmusch\, and Samuel Beckett\, director Geng presents a portrait of a socio-economic system so flawed that it has veered into black comedy – a practically post-apocalyptic world where crime is the new normal. In a Northern Chinese industrial town\, everyone – even the local monk – is running a con and the police are more interested in chasing girls than criminals. \nWinner of a special jury award at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/new-noir-chinese-crime-films-2017-11-13/
LOCATION:Brattle Theater\, 40 Brattle St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Emergent Visions Film Screening,Events of Interest,Film Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171112T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171112T230000
DTSTAMP:20260507T194224
CREATED:20171024T151434Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171024T151434Z
UID:6152-1510516800-1510527600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:New Noir: Chinese Crime Films
DESCRIPTION:Film 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 supposed to be the people’s paradise. Recently\, however\, a new generation of young auteurs\, working independently\, has been reworking the tropes of Chinese spy film to address the country’s endemic corruption and violence\, with films that portray drifting killers\, frustrated police\, and fatal beauties\, all enmeshed in a web of vice and desire. Starting with BLACK COAL\, THIN ICE\, a landmark in Chinese crime film\, and ending with FREE AND EASY\, a post-apocalyptic dark comedy\, this program is a witness to the birth of the Chinese mainland school of noir. \nNew Noir is part of the Creative China Festival\, curated by Meng Xie\, supported by Beijing Contemporary Art Foundation. \nCo-presented by Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies \nPlease Note: Tickets are $11 each for general public\, $9 for students and Brattle members\, and $8 for seniors.  A total of 50 free tickets for screenings in the series are available to Harvard ID holders on a first-come\, first-serve basis.  Please show your Harvard ID at the box office up to half an hour before the screening.  No advanced reservations are accepted for these free tickets.  \nBLACK COAL\, THIN ICE (2014) dir. Diao Yinan w/ Liao Fan\, Kwei Lun-Mei\, Wang Xuebing [110 min; DCP]\nSun\, Nov 12 at 5:30pm\nA landmark in Chinese crime film\, BLACK COAL\, THIN ICE is a dazzlingly stylized mystery that blends Fincher-esque genre elements and social commentary. It all begins with the discovery of a hand on a coal conveyor belt. Cop Zhang (Liao Fan) tries to solve the case but\, years later\, the body parts are still showing up. The film won the Golden Bear for Best Film\, as well as the Silver Bear for Best Actor\, at the 2014 Berlin International Film Festival. \nTHE DEAD END (2015) dir. Cao Baoping w/Deng Chao\, Duan Yuhong\, Guo Tao [139 min; DCP]\nSun\, Nov 12 at 8:00pm\nWith Dostoevskian undertones\, THE DEAD END is a gritty tale of redemption for three men—a cop\, a cab driver\, and a recluse—who are haunted by shared guilt over their murderous misdeeds in an unsolved crime. \nLETHAL HOSTAGE (2012) dir. Cheng Er w/Ni Dahong\, Sun Honglei\, Wang Luodan [97 min; DCP]\nMon\, Nov 13 at 8:30pm\nAn ingeniously structured psychological thriller\, LETHAL HOSTAGE takes place in a crumbling town on the China-Myanmar border.  A woman marrying her kidnapper is only the beginning of a series of emotional knots and dramatic twists in this superbly constructed crime drama. \nTHE COFFIN IN THE MOUNTAIN (2014) dir. Xin Yukun w/Huo Weimin\, Wang Xiaotian\, Luo Yun [119 min; DCP]\nTue\, Nov 14 at 8:30pm\nA striking feature directorial debut\, THE COFFIN IN THE MOUNTAIN is an unflinching depiction of provincial entrapment where people’s lives are intricately intertwined through an accidental death. With an ingeniously constructed timeline\, the film morphs from mystery to suspense and finally to irony. \nFREE + EASY (2017) dir. Geng Jun w/Xu Gang\, Zhang Zhiyong\, Xue Baohe [98 min; DCP]\nWed\, Nov 15 at 8:30pm\nWith tinges of the Coen Brothers\, Jim Jarmusch\, and Samuel Beckett\, director Geng presents a portrait of a socio-economic system so flawed that it has veered into black comedy – a practically post-apocalyptic world where crime is the new normal. In a Northern Chinese industrial town\, everyone – even the local monk – is running a con and the police are more interested in chasing girls than criminals. \nWinner of a special jury award at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/new-noir-chinese-crime-films-2017-11-12/
LOCATION:Brattle Theater\, 40 Brattle St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Emergent Visions Film Screening,Events of Interest,Film Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171112T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171112T200000
DTSTAMP:20260507T194224
CREATED:20171024T151434Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231107T152343Z
UID:6149-1510507800-1510516800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:New Noir: Chinese Crime Films
DESCRIPTION:Film 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 supposed to be the people’s paradise. Recently\, however\, a new generation of young auteurs\, working independently\, has been reworking the tropes of Chinese spy film to address the country’s endemic corruption and violence\, with films that portray drifting killers\, frustrated police\, and fatal beauties\, all enmeshed in a web of vice and desire. Starting with BLACK COAL\, THIN ICE\, a landmark in Chinese crime film\, and ending with FREE AND EASY\, a post-apocalyptic dark comedy\, this program is a witness to the birth of the Chinese mainland school of noir. \nNew Noir is part of the Creative China Festival\, curated by Meng Xie\, supported by Beijing Contemporary Art Foundation. \nCo-presented by Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies \nPlease Note: Tickets are $11 each for general public\, $9 for students and Brattle members\, and $8 for seniors.  A total of 50 free tickets for screenings in the series are available to Harvard ID holders on a first-come\, first-serve basis.  Please show your Harvard ID at the box office up to half an hour before the screening.  No advanced reservations are accepted for these free tickets.  \nBLACK COAL\, THIN ICE (2014) dir. Diao Yinan w/ Liao Fan\, Kwei Lun-Mei\, Wang Xuebing [110 min; DCP]\nSun\, Nov 12 at 5:30pm\nA landmark in Chinese crime film\, BLACK COAL\, THIN ICE is a dazzlingly stylized mystery that blends Fincher-esque genre elements and social commentary. It all begins with the discovery of a hand on a coal conveyor belt. Cop Zhang (Liao Fan) tries to solve the case but\, years later\, the body parts are still showing up. The film won the Golden Bear for Best Film\, as well as the Silver Bear for Best Actor\, at the 2014 Berlin International Film Festival. \nTHE DEAD END (2015) dir. Cao Baoping w/Deng Chao\, Duan Yuhong\, Guo Tao [139 min; DCP]\nSun\, Nov 12 at 8:00pm\nWith Dostoevskian undertones\, THE DEAD END is a gritty tale of redemption for three men—a cop\, a cab driver\, and a recluse—who are haunted by shared guilt over their murderous misdeeds in an unsolved crime. \nLETHAL HOSTAGE (2012) dir. Cheng Er w/Ni Dahong\, Sun Honglei\, Wang Luodan [97 min; DCP]\nMon\, Nov 13 at 8:30pm\nAn ingeniously structured psychological thriller\, LETHAL HOSTAGE takes place in a crumbling town on the China-Myanmar border.  A woman marrying her kidnapper is only the beginning of a series of emotional knots and dramatic twists in this superbly constructed crime drama. \nTHE COFFIN IN THE MOUNTAIN (2014) dir. Xin Yukun w/Huo Weimin\, Wang Xiaotian\, Luo Yun [119 min; DCP]\nTue\, Nov 14 at 8:30pm\nA striking feature directorial debut\, THE COFFIN IN THE MOUNTAIN is an unflinching depiction of provincial entrapment where people’s lives are intricately intertwined through an accidental death. With an ingeniously constructed timeline\, the film morphs from mystery to suspense and finally to irony. \nFREE + EASY (2017) dir. Geng Jun w/Xu Gang\, Zhang Zhiyong\, Xue Baohe [98 min; DCP]\nWed\, Nov 15 at 8:30pm\nWith tinges of the Coen Brothers\, Jim Jarmusch\, and Samuel Beckett\, director Geng presents a portrait of a socio-economic system so flawed that it has veered into black comedy – a practically post-apocalyptic world where crime is the new normal. In a Northern Chinese industrial town\, everyone – even the local monk – is running a con and the police are more interested in chasing girls than criminals. \nWinner of a special jury award at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/new-noir-chinese-crime-films/
CATEGORIES:Emergent Visions Film Screening,Events of Interest,Film Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171027T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171027T210000
DTSTAMP:20260507T194224
CREATED:20171005T173938Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171005T173938Z
UID:6023-1509127200-1509138000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Film Screening: "Vanished Archives"
DESCRIPTION:The 1967 riots are a watershed in Hong Kong history and some would say the starting point for the development of Hong Kong consciousness. Yet the official records of this critical period today are sadly incomplete. What information can be found online is hard to verify and authenticate. Documentary film director Connie Lo Yan-wai spent four years interviewing participants of the riots\, from the children of the leftist leaders of the time\, to members of the “bomb squads”\, union leaders and patriotic students. Others who share their personal experiences include former police officers\, a senior government information director\, journalists and a number of witnesses and victims. Lo sifted through piles of old newspapers\, government documents and declassified British government records in order to produce the documentary\, “Vanished Archives”. As a number of those who experienced the events of the time passed away during the four years it took to produce the film\, the documentary has become their final record of their recollections of and reflections on those times. Are the political entanglements between the Mainland and Hong Kong fifty years ago a mirror reflecting today’s Hong Kong?  Some maintain traces of the past can be detected in the present. \nDiscussion with the filmmakers follows the screening.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-screening-vanished-archives/
LOCATION:Northwest Building\, Room B103\, 52 Oxford St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 01453\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170424T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170424T220000
DTSTAMP:20260507T194224
CREATED:20170414T145418Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170414T145418Z
UID:5128-1493060400-1493071200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:"Behemoth": Film Screening and Discussion with Director Zhao Liang
DESCRIPTION:Beginning with a mining explosion in Mongolia and ending in a ghost city west of Beijing\, documentarian Zhao Liang’s new film Behemoth details\, in one breathtaking sequence after another\, the social and environmental devastation driven by the totality of humankind’s desire and greed. After the screening\, Director Liang will attend via Skype for a discussion with Gen Carmel of the LEF Foundation and Crows & Sparrows. The discussion will be interpreted by Canaan Morse\, a Ph.D. candidate in Chinese Literature at Harvard. \nBehemoth is co-presented by The DocYard; Crows & Sparrows; the Harvard-China Project\, Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences; and the Environment in Asia Series\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. \nFree admission to holders of a current Harvard ID\, sponsored by Harvard-China Project and Harvard-Global Institute \nEvent website: https://chinaproject.harvard.edu/event/behemoth
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/behemoth-film-screening-and-discussion-with-director-zhao-liang/
LOCATION:Brattle Theater\, 40 Brattle St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Environment,Events of Interest,Film Screening,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170323T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170323T200000
DTSTAMP:20260507T194224
CREATED:20170223T135435Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170223T135435Z
UID:4907-1490292000-1490299200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Film Screening: The Eagle Huntress
DESCRIPTION:Free admission \nCosponsored by the Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies at Harvard University and the Harvard Art Museums
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-screening-the-eagle-huntress/
LOCATION:Harvard Art Museum\, Menschel Hall\, Lower Level\, 32 Quincy St\, cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest,Film Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161115T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161115T200000
DTSTAMP:20260507T194224
CREATED:20161109T175918Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161109T175918Z
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: "Song of the Reed"
DESCRIPTION:In 1998\, the Taiwan Women’s Rescue Foundation (TWRF) made a groundbreaking documentary that revealed the existence of Taiwanese comfort women. More than 15 years later\, the same organization filmed a second documentary\, Song of the Reed. Following the later years of six former comfort women\, Song of the Reed focuses on the therapy that the women went through to confront their horrific experiences and the justice that they are still seeking.\nJapanese\, Hoklo\, and Mandarin with Chinese and English subtitles. \n 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-screening-song-of-the-reed/
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest,Film Screening
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