Tuesday 30th March 12-2pm
Free online event
hosted by the GWW Centre
Dear All,
LLMVC’s George Washington Wilson Centre for Visual Culture would be delighted if you could join us for our next free online event ‘Contemporary Chinese Cinema. Filmmakers Representing the Real against a Booming Industry’ by Dr Elena Pollacchi on Tuesday 30 March 12-2pm. Please access via this Zoom link.
The two-hour seminar will examine the contemporary Chinese film scene in its transnational connections. It will focus mainly on the line of cinema preoccupied with dealing with social issues and marginal spaces and discuss the case of filmmakers that can benefit from transnational production support across the film festival and art exhibition circuits. These will be considered against the Chinese booming film industry which is, as elsewhere, mainly driven by mainstrem blockbusters.
The first half of the seminar (12-13pm) will offer an overview of the current Chinese film scene and map out the different lines of filmmaking in their connection with regional and international players. It will focus on documentary filmmakers who are able to bring local issues into universal narratives.
In the second half (13-14pm), Pollacchi will discuss the evolving role of film festivals and the work of a film festival programmer drawing upon her experience as a consultant on Chinese and Asian cinema for the Venice International Film Festival since the early 2000s.
Bio: Elena Pollacchi is Senior Lecturer in Chinese Studies and has taught extensively on Chinese cinema, Asian cinema, and modern Chinese culture at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (Italy) and in Sweden (Stockholm University and Gothenburg University). She holds a PhD from Cambridge University in Chinese film studies and has been programmer for Chinese and South Korean film at the Venice International Film Festival for more than a decade. Her monograph Wang Bing’s Filmmaking of the China Dream. Narratives, Witnesses and Marginal Spacesis in print for Amsterdam University Press (2021).
Supported by Aberdeen City Council’s Creative Funding programme and the University of Aberdeen
Best wishes,
Silvia
Dr Silvia Casini
Lecturer in Film and Visual Culture
Co-Director, GWW Centre for Visual Culture
https://www.abdn.ac.uk/sll/disciplines/film/profiles/silvia.casini
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