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CinemaTalk: Interview with Professor Eugene Wang on Chinese Art and Film

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Sep 24, 2011

CinemaTalk: Interview with Professor Eugene Wang on Chinese Art and Film

By Michael Chenkin Professor Eugene Wang Eugene Yuejin Wang is Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art at Harvard University. We recently spoke with Professor Wang about his interests in Chinese art and Chinese film, the areas of intersection between these two fields, and his interest in painter Liu Xiaodong, who is the subject of Jia Zhangke’s documentary Dong. Dong will screen Monday 9/26 as the opening film of the 11-film series on Chinese independent film at Doc F

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Aug 28, 2011

CinemaTalk: Conversation with Edward Wong of the New York Times on Chinese Indie Filmmaking

In the August 14 edition of the New York Times, Edward Wong profiles Zhao Liang, director of two of the most fearlessly independent social documentaries to come from China, Crime and Punishment and Petition. Zhao has recently transitioned to work with the Chinese government to produce Together, an “official” documentary on Chinese HIV victims. That decision and an earlier one involving involving Zhao’s withdrawal from an Australian film festival in support of a political prot

Cinematalk: Interview with Ying Qian of Harvard

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Aug 2, 2011

Cinematalk: Interview with Ying Qian of Harvard

By Michael Chenkin Ying Qian Ying Qian is a PhD candidate in East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University. Qian’s area of focus involves examining the evolving documentary visions in 20th century China. She is interested in the social processes and “film thinking” that have enabled and shaped the making of documentary images, and the ways in which these images have provided framings, interventions and agencies to historical change. Recently, Qian co-organized

A Visit to the IFChina Original Studio with Filmmaker Jian Yi

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Jul 21, 2011

A Visit to the IFChina Original Studio with Filmmaker Jian Yi

By Dan Edwards IFChina Studio founder and filmmaker Jian Yi, outside the studio on the campus of Jinggangshan University Reprinted by permission from RealTime Arts Magazine. Ji’an doesn’t look like the most auspicious place for a groundbreaking experiment in China’s budding civil society. The town doesn’t appear in any English language guidebooks, the local station platform is just a low-slung slab of concrete and, in early spring when i visited, a bone chilling mist hung ove

Interview with Beijing Queer Film FestivalâˆšÂ¢â€šÃ‡Â¨â€šÃ‘Â¢s Yang Yang

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Jul 12, 2011

Interview with Beijing Queer Film FestivalâˆšÂ¢â€šÃ‡Â¨â€šÃ‘Â¢s Yang Yang

from bjqff.com By Ariella Tai Beijing Queer Film Festival, a biennial celebration of gay, lesbian and queer films held biannually, recently enjoyed its tenth year running. On Artspace China, Christen Cornell conducts an interview with the festival’s executive director, Yang Yang. Yang has been with the festival since the beginning, providing an essential space for the queer and allied communities of Beijing despite the fear of government pressure. She observes, “…we always

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Jul 4, 2011

The Future of Chinese Film Criticism

Wang Yang (photo credit: Grace Wang) By Ariella Tai In similar form to her fascinating report on Chinese Documentaries in her Chicago Sun Times-based blog, Grace Wang, has written of her search for the new face of Chinese film criticism. Somewhat surprisingly, that face belongs to a young former law student named Wang Yang, who is the founder of Youth Film Journal, the first independently published film journal in China today. This publication is virtually the only professi

Oxhide director Liu Jiayin interviewed on Artspace blog

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Jun 28, 2011

Oxhide director Liu Jiayin interviewed on Artspace blog

Oxhide II (dir. Liu Jiayin) By Ariella Tai On the University of Sydney’s blog Artspace, Christen Cornell interviews Liu Jiayin on her acclaimed films Oxhide and Oxhide II (both available in the dGenerate catalog). Despite being one of the youngest artists of the current generation of independent Chinese filmmakers, she is credited with being one of the most innovative. In this interview, she discusses her aesthetic choices, as well as her reasons for using daily household

CinemaTalk: Interview with Huang Weikai, Director of <i>Disorder</i>

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May 16, 2011

CinemaTalk: Interview with Huang Weikai, Director of Disorder

"Disorder" director Huang Weikai Disorder, a bold documentary by Huang Weikai, has been steadily garnering recognition over the past year, screening at multiple venues across America. It’s been mentioned as one of the best films of 2010 by Moving Image Source and Film Comment magazine, and recently won Best Documentary at the Ann Arbor Film Festival. Seeing it at the Reel China Film Festival in NYU, Hua Hsu of The Atlantic called it “one of the most mesmerizing films I’ve se

CinemaTalk: Interview with Li Ning, Director of <i>Tape</i>

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Apr 4, 2011

CinemaTalk: Interview with Li Ning, Director of Tape

Li Ning, director of Tape Tape, a highly experimental documentary by performance artist, dancer and filmmaker Li Ning, made its European premiere last January at the Rotterdam International Film Festival. Since then it has screened at the MoMA Documentary Fortnight and won the Silver Award at the Yunnan Multicultural Visual Exhibitions, aka YunFest. The film makes its West Coast premiere at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts this Thursday April 7 as part of the series “Fearl

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Mar 8, 2011

CinemaTalk: Zhao Liang presents new documentary Together at Berlin Film Festival

Zhao Liang, director of the acclaimed films Petition and Crime and Punishment (distributed by dGenerate), was present at the international premiere of his new documentary Together at the 2011 Berlin Film Festival. Here is an unedited video of his Q&A, conducted in Mandarin, English and some German. In a previous post, Isabella Tianzi Cai wrote: Together is a behind-the-scenes documentary of Chinse director Gu Changwei’s upcoming feature film Life is a Miracle (2011), which ex

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Feb 1, 2011

CinemaTalk: Conversation with Liu Jiayin, director of Oxhide and Oxhide II

This entry is part of a weeklong spotlight of newly available titles in the dGenerate Films catalog. Director Liu Jiayin was interviewed at the Apple Store Sanlitun Beijing, as part of the “Meet the Filmmakers” series, co-presented by the Apple Store in Beijing and dGenerate Films, a series to showcase China’s newest filmmakers powered by digital technology. Liu Jiayin was born in Beijing in 1981. At age 23, she made her debut feature Oxhide while a Master’s student the Beiji

Interview with Yang Jin, Director of <i>The Black and White Milk Cow</i> and <i>Er Dong</i>

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Jan 30, 2011

Interview with Yang Jin, Director of The Black and White Milk Cow and Er Dong

By Isabella Tianzi Cai Yang Jin, director of The Black and White Milk Cow and Er Dong In this interview originally published on Sina.com, director Yang Jin talks about the making of The Black and White Milk Cow (available through the dGenerate catalog). Yang discusses how he found his actors and how he worked with them. He also mentions his filming experiences, which include what he did to transition from one scene to the next, how he worked around his tight budget, as well a

Zhao Liang Interviewed on <i>Petition</i>

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Jan 14, 2011

Zhao Liang Interviewed on Petition

This week on dGenerate we will be featuring articles related to Zhao Liang’s acclaimed documentary Crime and Punishment to coincide with the screening of his films at Anthology Film Archives in New York City. Click here for more information on the screenings. Zhao Liang This translated interview was first published Feburary 1, 2010 to commemorate Zhao Liang’s visit to the United States. The interview was originally published in the Chinese magazine Liang You. Translation by Y

CinemaTalk: Conversation with Zhao Liang, director of <i>Crime and Punishment</i> and <i>Petition</i

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Jan 12, 2011

CinemaTalk: Conversation with Zhao Liang, director of Crime and Punishment and Petition</i

This week on dGenerate we will be featuring articles related to Zhao Liang’s acclaimed documentary Crime and Punishment to coincide with the screening of his films at Anthology Film Archives in New York City. Click here for more information on the screenings. This article was originally published August 17, 2010. By Kevin B. Lee Zhao Liang Zhao Liang is one of China’s leading artists working in video, photography and documentary film. His work examines both rural and urban re

Interview with dGenerate’s Kevin Lee – appearing at U. Illinois and RIT this week

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Oct 5, 2010

Interview with dGenerate’s Kevin Lee – appearing at U. Illinois and RIT this week

dGenerate's Kevin Lee (right) with director Liu Jiayin at the Beijing Sanlitun Apple Store Christen Cornell of Artspace China interviews Kevin Lee, dGenerate’s VP of Programming and Education, on dGenerate’s work in building a distribution channel for Chinese films in North America. Kevin will be appearing at two campus events this week. On Tuesday October 5 at 3:30, Kevin will present a lecture “Chinese cinema from the Fifth Generation to the d-Generation” at the Spurlock Mu

CinemaTalk: Conversation with Zhao Liang, director of <i>Crime and Punisment</i> and <i>Petition</i>

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Aug 17, 2010

CinemaTalk: Conversation with Zhao Liang, director of Crime and Punisment and Petition

Zhao Liang Zhao Liang is one of China’s leading artists working in video, photography and documentary film. His work examines both rural and urban realities, fast-paced progress and nostalgia, the nature of politics, and the beauty of the natural world. He clearly connects with the underprivileged, whom he considers to be the engine of society, and homes in on the everyday aspects of life ignored by public institutions. He has directed two feature documentaries, Crime and Pun

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Oct 1, 2009

dGenerate Films on Q!

On the show, she discusses dGenerate Films and the state of Chinese independent film. If you missed the interview, you can check out the podcast at Q’s official website later today here (right click to download). Fun fact: Van Morrison was on the show too! #cbcradio #dGenerateTitles #interview #karinchien

CinemaTalk: a Conversation with Michael Berry

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Aug 24, 2009

CinemaTalk: a Conversation with Michael Berry

dGenerate Films presents CinemaTalk, an ongoing series of conversations with esteemed scholars of Chinese cinema studies. These conversations are presented on this site in audio podcast and/or text format. They are intended to help the Chinese cinema studies community keep abreast of the latest work being done in the field, as well as to learn what recent Chinese films are catching the attention of others. This series reflects our mission to bring valuable resources and fo

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