CONSUMPTION

23rd – 24th January 2013, University of Amsterdam & International Film Festival Rotterdam

Please contact Penn Ip at t.t.ip@uva.nl by 18 January if you wish to attend.

Highlights:

Day 1 workshop with talks by leading academics and a roundtable discussion with film festival researchers.
Keynote address 1 by Professor Julian Stringer (University of Nottingham), “The Consumption of Chinese Cinema at International Film Festivals: Three Propositions”
Keynote address 2 by Professor Patricia Pisters,”Madness, Miracles, Machines – Living in a delirious world without walls.”
Day 2 roundtable discussion with film festival programmers.
Attendance at International Film Festival Rotterdam for viewings of festival films and discussions between academics, directors, and programmers.

Full Programme: Consuming Chinese Cinemas Programme

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IMAGINATION

9th – 11th July 2012, University of Exeter

A launch event featuring a keynote address by Professor Rey Chow (Duke University), “China as Documentary in the Age of Hypermediality: Some Basic Questions.”
A one-day conference on the 10th July focussing on the role of imagination in the production and consumption of Chinese cinemas in the 21st century.
A one-day workshop on the 11th July for postgraduates working on Chinese cinemas.

Exeter Event Report

Exeter Conference Report (in Chinese)

For more information, visit the conference webpage.

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“Producing Chinese Cinemas in the 21st Century”

Singapore, July 2013. Click here to see an outline programme of events for the Singapore conference. Please email chinesecinemas@exeter.ac.uk for information about attendance at this event.

Keynote: Chinese Cinema and the Asian Century

You are cordially invited to attend a public lecture by Stephen Teo entitled “Chinese Cinema and the Asian Century”.

Stephen Teo is Associate Professor at the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is the author of numerous books on Chinese and Asian cinemas, including the most recent one, “The Asian Cinema Experience: Styles, Spaces, Theory” (Routledge, 2013).

The lecture takes place at 17:00 on Sunday 30 June 2013 at The Pod, National Library of Singapore.

The lecture has been organised as part of “Chinese Cinemas in the 21st Century: Production, Consumption, Imagination” research project, funded by the Leverhulme Trust’s International Networks scheme and led by Dr. Song Hwee Lim from the University of Exeter.

Please contact Nick Hall at chinesecinemas@exeter.ac.uk by 21 June if you wish to attend, or if you have any further questions. There is no registration fee.

Co-organised and partly sponsored by:
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With support from:
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This two-day workshop on 1-2 July 2013 is by invitation only. However, we’ll consider any request for participation if you are a researcher or postgraduate student in Film Studies or a related field, or if you work in the film industry. Please send your request to Nick Hall at chinesecinemas@exeter.ac.uk by 25 June and we’ll get in touch with you soon.

Sunday 30 June 2013
The Pod, 16th Floor, National Library Building – click here to see this location on Google Maps

5:00 – 5:10 pm
Welcome Remarks – Song Hwee LIM, University of Exeter

5:10 – 6.00
Keynote Speech/Public Lecture
“Chinese Cinema and the Asian Century”
Stephen Teo, Nanyang Technological University
Followed by Q&A and a Reception.
End by 7:30

Monday 1 July 2013

Singapore Management University, School of Social Sciences, Seminar Room 4.1. The School of Social Sciences is opposite the Rendezvous Hotel. Click here to see the School of Social Sciences building location on Google Maps. Attendees should enter via the Visitors’ Entrance.

Session 1: 9.30 – 11.00 am

Presentation of papers by Network visitors and guests

Chair: Brenda Chan (Singapore Management University)
LAI Chee Kien (National University of Singapore), “Southeast Asia as Framed in Wong Kar-wai’s Movies”
FOO Tee Tuan (UniSIM), “Different Chinese, Different Chinese Cinemas: Analyzing Top 10 Box Office Hits in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore, 2007-2012”
Felicia Chan (University of Manchester, and ARI, NUS) “Backstage/Onstage Cosmopolitanism: Jia Zhangke’s The World”

Session 2: 11:30 – 1:00

Presentation of papers by Network Partners

Chair: Michelle Bloom, University of California, Riverside
Jeroen de Kloet (University of Amsterdam), “Welcome to the Desert of the Fake: Creativity, Soft Power and Criticality in China”
Song Hwee LIM (University of Exeter, and ARI/NUS), “Deterritorializing Chinese-language Cinema: Mahua Cinema in/and Taiwan”
LIEW Kai Khiun (Nanyang Technological University), “Militarization: Haunting (dis)appearance of Space in films of Boo Junfeng”

Session 3: 2:00 – 3:45

Screening of Moon Over Malaya (1957), 91 mins – with Introduction by: Karen Chan, Asian Film Archive

Session 4 – 4:15 – 5:45

Roundtable on “Staging Film for Research: Institutions, Ownership, and the Archive”

Chair: Kenneth Chan, University of Northern Colorado
Speakers: Karen Chan, Asian Film Archive, Derek Tan, Founder of Viddsee.com, Eric Chin, Director of the National Archives of Singapore (NAS).

Tuesday 2 July 2013

Session 1 – 9.30 – 11.00 am

Screening of The Tiger Factory (2010), 84 mins. With Introduction by KHOO Gaik Cheng, University of Nottingham- Malaysia

Session 2 – 11:30 – 1:00

Dialogue with Malaysian Filmmakers/Producers

Chair: KHOO Gaik Cheng, University of Nottingham- Malaysia
Speakers: Woo Ming Jin, Director of The Tiger Factory, Liew Seng Tat, Director/Producer, Yeo Joon Han, Director/Producer

Session 3 – 2.00 – 3:30

Screening of Old Romances (2012), 66 mins, and Tickets (2010), 10 mins, with Introduction by LIEW Kai Khiun, Nanyang Technological University

Session 4 – 4.00 – 5.30

Dialogue with Singaporean Filmmakers/Producers

Chair: Song Hwee LIM, University of Exeter
Speakers: Eva Tang, Director of Old Romances, Sherman Ong, Director of Tickets, Chai Yee Wei, Director, Eugene Lee, Producer