Iranian Film Festival
Sundays - Oct 16 to October 23, 2016
Rackham Amphitheatre
4:00 p.m.
Free and Open to the Public
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The Department of Near Eastern Studies and the Iranian Graduate Students Association are proud to announce the first Annual Iranian Film Festival of Ann Arbor, showcasing the work of a new generation of Iranian filmmakers. For further information, visit our festival site (above) or email us at iranian-film-festival@umich.edu.
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Still from Risk of Acid Rain (Behtash Sanaeeha, 2015)
Screening this Sunday, October 16
Manoochehr is 60 years old, has retired from the tobacco department where he worked, and is now a pensioner; yet, he continues to go to work since he has nothing else to do. His mother wanted him to marry when she was alive. To this day, however, Manoochehr keeps no friends except Khosro. Risk of Acid Rain is a minimalist poetic tale of the bitter reality of loneliness.
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This festival is sponsored by Arts at Michigan, the Center for Middle Eastern & North African Studies; the Depts. of Near Eastern Studies, Screen Arts & Cultures, Anthropology, and Women's Studies; the Iranian Graduate Students Association; the Islamic Studies Program; the Language Resource Center; and the Persian Students Association.
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Conversations on Europe. Italian Style: Fashion and Film
Monday, October 24
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 6:30 p.m., there will be a public reception for the directors at Babo, located at 403 E Washington St.
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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THIS WEEK'S FEATURED PHOTO
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photo credit, Valerio Grelo
At the Giornate del Cinema Muto last week in Pordenone, Italy, SAC Doctoral Student Vincent Longo spoke with Simon Crocker, the Chairman of the John Kobal Foundation, who organized the exhibit at the festival about Hollywood studio portrait photographers.
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