Film Screening
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Film Screening: “Song of the Reed”
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 […]
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Film Screening: The Eagle Huntress
Harvard Art Museum, Menschel Hall, Lower Level 32 Quincy St, cambridge, MA, United StatesFree admission Cosponsored by the Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies at Harvard University and the Harvard Art Museums
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“Behemoth”: Film Screening and Discussion with Director Zhao Liang
Brattle Theater 40 Brattle St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesBeginning 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 […]
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Film Screening: “Vanished Archives”
Northwest Building, Room B103 52 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesThe 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 […]
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New Noir: Chinese Crime Films
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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]