caps-news: Asia films at Cinema Pacific

[Lori O'Hollaren]

CINEMA PACIFIC

APRIL 17-21, 2013

cinemapacific.uoregon.edu

The Cinema Pacific film festival, back for its fourth year, will premiere new works from Singapore, Mexico, and other Pacific-bordering countries and feature screenings with guest filmmakers, art exhibitions, and live performances. The festival will take place at venues on the University of Oregon campus and at the Bijou Art Cinemas.

Below are links to major programs in this year’s festival for those with a special interest in Asian cinema.

 
FOCUS: SINGAPORE 

1) Ming Wong JSMA museum installation and Skype performance 
Singapore’s representative to the 2009 Venice Biennale, Wong has been recognized internationally for his ambitious performance and video works that engage with the history of world cinema and popular forms of entertainment. The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art will present, from April 12 - June 2, Ming Wong’s 3-screen video installation, Life and Death in Venice (2010, 16 min.), a revisiting of Visconti¹s 1971 film Death in Venice.  Wong will give a live performance and artist talk via Skype on April 21 at 2p.m. in the JSMA and Portland’s White Box Gallery.

2) Visiting Artists Colin Goh and Yen Yen Woopresent Singapore Dreaming, Dim Sum Warriors, and lecture on“Singlish” language (April 19-20 at Bijou, Downtown Library, and JSMA)

Visiting Singaporean filmmakers Colin Goh and Yen Yen Woo have released two feature films, including Singapore Dreaming (Apr. 20 at 4 p.m.), praised by Variety as “a graceful satire on Western capitalism in the East.”  On April 19, Goh and Woo will deliver a Jeremiah Lecture on the controversial "Singlish" dialect. Finally, at the Eugene Public Library, Goh and Woo will project and discuss episodes from Dim Sum Warriors (Apr. 20 at 1 p.m.), their graphic novel that is also an educational Chinese-English iPad app. Cosponsored with the UO Center for Asian and Pacific Studies, Asian Studies, CABA, Comics Studies, East Asian Languages and Literatures, and Linguistics.
http://cinemapacific.uoregon.edu/2013/highlights/singapore/

 

NEW CHINESE CINEMA

BÉRÉNICE REYNAUD (2013 FESTIVAL FELLOW)

Illustrated lecture (April 18, 2 p.m., UO Global Scholars Hall 123): “Ruins in Recent Independent Chinese Cinema”

This year’s Cinema Pacific Festival Fellow Bérénice Reynaud will deliver an illustrated lecture on April 18 on how independent Chinese cinema is addressing an overwhelming phenomenon currently taking place in China -- the production of ruins as part of planned urban renewal. She will also introduce an exciting new narrative feature from China titled The Love Songs of Tiedan (Apr. 18 at 6:30 p.m.), a larkish and erotic tribute to the er ren tai form of bawdy folk singing practiced for centuries in China. Reynaud’s visit is supported by the UO Confucius Institute and the Center for Asian and Pacific Studies.

http://cinemapacific.uoregon.edu/2013/highlights/berenice-reynaud/

THE LOVE SONGS OF TIEDAN 

http://cinemapacific.uoregon.edu/schedule/april-18-2013/#love-songs

 

ON JAPAN 

INORI  

Winner of Best Documentary at the Morelia Film Festival, Inori was cited by IndieWire as one of the top ten undistributed films of 2012. Gonzalez-Rubio was inspired by the natural wonders and the inevitable melancholy faced by the aging population in the lush, water-fed mountains of Japan’s southeastern Nara Prefecture. (April 21, 4:00 p.m., Bijou)
http://cinemapacific.uoregon.edu/schedule/april-21-2013/#inori


Visit our website (http://cinemapacific.uoregon.edu/) to order tickets and to find more information on films in this year’s festival.


 
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