Conversations on Europe. Italian Style: Fashion and Film
Monday, October 24, 2016
Room 1636, School of Social Work Building
4:00 - 5:30 p.m.
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Italian cinema launched Italian fashion into the world. This lecture is based on Professor Paulicelli’s latest book, Italian Style: Fashion & Film from Early Cinema to the Digital Age, which tells the story of this launch and explores how film contributed to the shaping of an Italian style and fashion that ran parallel to and, at times, took the lead in the creation of an Italian national identity. Fashion and film are powerful industries and media machines that construct powerful symbolic narratives and identities. It is hardly surprising, then, that Italian filmmakers have been fascinated by the transformative power of the language of clothing and fashion and the impact it has on style, consumption, and behavior.
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This lecture is sponsored by the Center for European Studies, the International Institute, the Departments of Screen Arts & Cultures and Romance Languages & Literature, and the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.
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LRCSS Chinese Film Series Presents a Panel Discussion Featuring Cui Zi'en, Wang Wo, and Ying Liang
With Moderation by Akiyama Tamako and Markus Nornes and Final Comments by Johannes von Moltke
Friday, October 28, 2016
North Quad 2435
4:00 - 6:00 p.m.
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At 6:00 p.m., there will be a public reception for the directors in NQ 2435. This reception is free and open to the public.
Cui Zi’en (崔子恩) is from Harbin and is now living in Florida. He is a director, film scholar, screenwriter, novelist and an pioneering queer activist. He founded the Beijing Queer Film Festival, the first LGBT film festival in 2001. Cui’s work circulates freely between fiction and documentary, the conventional and the avant-garde.
Wang Wo (王我) was born in Hebei Province, and is currently living in the US. He began making films in 2004, establishing himself as an innovative independent documentary filmmaker. Along with his filmmaking, Wang works as an artist and graphic designer. His powerful posters for the Beijing Independent Film Festival are admired the world around.
Ying Liang (应亮) is a feature film director currently living in Hong Kong. He began his career making short films, before making his first feature, Taking Father Home, in 2005. Ying is also the founder of the Chongqing Independent Film and Video Festival, which started in 2007 and was the first film festival in Western China.
For more detailed biographies on the directors, including their work, please click here.
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LRCSS Chinese Film Series Presents the Screening of
"A Sunny Day" and "Filmless Festival"
Directors Present for Discussion after Screening
Saturday, October 29, 2016
Angell Hall, Auditorium A
5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
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"A Sunny Day" (dir. Ying Liang, 25 min., 2014) is a touching short film centered on a young woman’s visit to her father, not having seen him for a while. Together the father and daughter reminisce about the past while contemplating their very different futures. He is packing up to enter a nursing home; she is deeply involved in the intensifying Umbrella Movement. Lovingly shot, this gentle film raises questions about citizenship, responsibility and the relationship between generations.
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Stills from "A Sunny Day" (left) and "Filmless Festival" (right)
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Wang Wo served as editor of footage collected by filmmakers, artists, festival volunteers, journalists and audience members at the 11th Beijing Independent Film Festival. The festival had always had problems with authorities, often having to move underground to universities, artist studios, or other cities. In 2014, the festival was shut down in no uncertain terms, with thugs beating cameramen and the detaining of organizers. "Filmless Festival" (dir. Wang Wo, 85 min., 2015) documents the proceedings from a multiplicity of perspectives, in both public and private spaces.
The directors' panel discussion and the screening are sponsored by the International Institute and the Departments of Asian Languages and Cultures and Screen Arts & Cultures.
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SACAPALOOZA - SAC's Undergraduate Declaration Event
November 3, 2016
North Quad, Studio A
11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
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If you are interested in declaring a Screen Arts & Cultures major or a Global Media Studies minor and/or you just want to learn more about what these academic programs offer, join us at SACapalooza!
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Julia Sonnevend's Book Launch: Stories Without Borders: The Berlin Wall and the Making of a a Global Iconic Event
Thursday, November 3, 2016
Literati Bookstore
7:00 - 8:30 p.m.
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Professor Sonnevend (UM, Communication Studies) will be joined in conversation by Professor William Uricchio (MIT, Comparative Literatrue)
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What comes to be known and seen as a global iconic event? Focusing on news coverage of the fall of the Berlin Wall and on contemporary retellings of the event, Julia Sonnevend discusses how storytellers build up certain events so that people remember them for a
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long time. The East German border opening that we know as the "fall of the Berlin Wall" was in fact unintentional, confusing, and prompted in part by misleading media coverage of bureaucratic missteps. But its global message is not about luck or accident or happenstance in history. Incarnated as a global iconic event, the fall of the Berlin Wall has come to communicate the momentary power that ordinary people can have. The event's story, branded as a simple phrase, a short narrative and a recognizable visual scene, provides people from China to Israel to the United States with a powerful social myth. This myth shapes our debates about separation walls and fences, borders, and refugees, and the possibilities of human freedom to this day.
For more information, including biographies of Julia Sonnevend and WIlliam Uricchio, please click here.
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This event is organized by the Global Media Studies Initiative and sponsored by the Department of Communication Studies with support from the Sheldon Cohn Fund in the Department of Screen Arts & Cultures.
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THIS WEEK'S FEATURED PHOTO
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photo credit, Mary Lou Chlipala
TV Pilots (SAC 404) students rehearse a scene from “Recovering.” Director Yuri Ramocan (center) communicates with writer Matt Barnauskas (plaid shirt). On cameras are Alec Brabant and Talia Mayden; on sound (back turned) is Logan Gardner (who is also a writer on the show). (At left) Actor Annamarie Kasper sits opposite Veerendra Prasad.
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