Announcement frmo the Flaherty Seminar:

The Flaherty will be presenting several films at the 2012 Bishan Harvest Festival* in Bishan Village in the Anhui Province of China,an area famous for its rural village architecture, which has all but disappeared elsewhere in China.

From the NYU Center for Religion and Media:

The Reel China @NYU 6th Film Biennial continues its tradition of sampling some of the most outstanding contemporary independent documentaries produced in China. This year Reel China has also added a few independent fiction films that we feel also reflect a keen understanding of this post-reform moment. Participating filmmakers range from more experienced professional documentarians to young novices. As their disparate visions extend and overlap, we witness the persistent presence of independent cameras that, amidst the disorienting transformations of today, assures the discovery and documentation of fragments of contemporary reality that are becoming history at breakneck speed.

Curated by Angela Zito (NYU) & ZHANG Zhen (NYU), with special thanks to HAO Jian, Beijing Film Academy, and ZHANG Qi, Li Xianting Film Foundation.

Presented by The Center for Religion and Media & The Department of Cinema Studies

Sponsored by The Center for Media, Culture and History & China House, NYU

Supported by The Provost’s Global Research Initiative & Asian Cultural Council

www.cinema.tisch.nyu.edu | www.crmnyu.org | www.cmchnyu.org

Schedule after the break

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From a press release by the UCLA Confucius Institute:

A groundbreaking exhibition of Chinese cinema – featuring cutting-edge and blockbuster contemporary films, as well as seldom glimpsed archival rarities – launches at venues citywide in Los Angeles on October 13, 2012.

The program selection proposes a new way of looking at Chinese cinema, encompassing richly diverse, genre-crossing programming, including short and feature-length animation, documentaries and narrative films, as well as works originated for different platforms such as theatrical release, internet viewing, and art installations.

The China Onscreen Biennial (COB) is the achievement of a partnership undertaken by the UCLA Confucius Institute (CI) with seven distinguished American non-profit film and educational institutions: the UCLA Film & Television Archive, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Film at REDCAT, and Pomona College, as well as the Freer and Sackler Galleries of the Smithsonian Institution, the Confucius Institute at George Mason University, and the Confucius Institute at the University of Maryland.

In scope and design, the COB is an unprecedented bicoastal collaboration among American cultural organizations to promote US-China dialogue through the art of film. Selected programs will reprise in the Washington, DC area beginning October 26.

For more information about the China Onscreen Biennial, visit: www.confucius.ucla.edu/cob.

Full schedule after the break.

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“Street Level Visions,” a program of independent Chinese documentaries featured in last month’s Melbourne International Film Festival, received an enormous amount of national and local media coverage in Australia. Program curator Dan Edwards has kindly assembled the various links which can be accessed here. dGenerate is proud to have taken a role in making these films available to Australian audiences.

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“MY TIANANMEN:the Polyphonic History” is a multimedia exhibition running September 21 and 22 in London, featuring films and a video installation presented in 3 parts. Each part is a distinct passage that explores how we perceive or comprehend history, from the specific instance of Tiananmen, to the general & universal.

Included among the exhibition’s film screenings is No. 89 Shimen Road, Shu Haolun’s award-winning reflection on life in Shanghai in the months leading to June 1989.

The screening takes place 5pm, Saturday 22 at the Hundred Years Gallery in London, 13 Pearson Street. Details here.

From the exhibition’s tumblr:

MY TIANANMEN: The Polyphonic History is a multimedia exhibition which embodies the musical and literary concepts of polyphony in its structure. It has three parts: a film program “Memories in Cross-generational Dialogue”, a video installation “My Tiananmen”, and a special screening event – “Unique and Like Yours”.

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On the heels of winning two awards at the Locarno International Film Festival this month, Ying Liang’s acclaimed and controversial new film When Night Falls will make its North American debut at the Toronto International Film Festival in September as part of the Wavelengths program. Screening details and a full program description by TIFF programmer Andrea Picard can be found after the break.

The film, based on the real life experiences of a woman whose son was executed for attacking a police station in Shanghai, drew scrutiny from Chinese authorities when it premiered at the Jeonju International Film Festival, effectively preventing Ying Liang from returning to China.

Read Ying Liang’s statement regarding the situation around his film. Learn more about him and his acclaimed feature The Other Half, part of the dGenerate catalog.

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