Month: March 2022

The 25^th Anniversary Edition of the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival runs for three weeks, from March 21-April 10. This year’s festival theme is ENTANGLEMENTS.

For the full festival program of over 65 events, check out www.ithaca.edu/fleff

Cinemapolis will host 25 films on its virtual cinema platform and three in-person special event screenings and talkbacks at the theater with filmmakers and community groups.  

Feature-length documentary and narrative films from 16 countries including Argentina, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Czech Republic, China, France, Hong Kong, Israel, Kosovo, Morocco, Niger, Rwanda, Tunisia, United Kingdom, and United States will each have a one-week run on the Eventive platform.  

12 interactive discussion-driven  Zoom talkbacks with filmmakers, archivists, activists, musicians, journalists, and scholars from around the country and across the globe are free  and open to the public each weekend of the festival. Film screenings, which can be watched anytime in the week prior, are asynchronous to the talkbacks. 

Speakers include Louis Massiah, Yi Cui, Rikun Zhu, Tony Buba, Carmel Curtis, Scott MacDonald, John Scott, Deborah Hoard, Abel Sanchez, Andres Alegria, Aisha Sultan, Trish McAdam, Hai Wen, and Jinyan Zeng. 

This year’s program features: 

*Special focus on dissident films from China and Hong Kong by women or dealing with sexuality.
*In-person New York State premiere of Ithaca College professor John Scott’s new feature documentary, Elizabeth Bishop and the Art of Losing (2022), with Ithacans on the production team on Sat April 8. 
*Celebration of the work-in-progress documentary on Ithaca civil rights legend Dorothy Cotton, with film director Deborah Hoard, in partnership with AKA of Ithaca on Sat April 2. 
*Five-film program of innovative environmental films probing water, coal mining and opioids, farmworkers organizing, housing, and gig workers.
*Special three-film retrospective of the works of legendary African American film director William Greaves (1926-2014) including Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice (1989), Nationtime (1972) and Symbiopsychotaxiplasm Take One (1971). 
*Four-film programming stream on contemporary French transnational cinemas.
*Focus on documentary and narrative films from Africa.
*Stream on films exploring music and politics.
*Stream exploring cutting-edge Eastern European narrative films from Bulgaria and the Czech Republic.

Tickets are US$35 for a five-pass, US$125 for an all-access pass to all 28 screenings, and US$10 per individual screening. They are available for purchase via the Cinemapolis Eventive portal (https://virtualcinemapolis.eventive.org/welcome) starting on March 1.

Partners for the FLEFF screenings at Cinemapolis include the Center for the Study of Globalization and Cultures at the University of Hong Kong; Scribe Video Center in Philadelphia; Art Mattan Films; UniFrance; Museo del Cine Pablo Ducros Hicken, Argentina; the Park Center for Independent Media, and Louise Archambault Greaves as well as the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program, the Department of Health Promotion and Physical Education,  and the MBA Program in Entertainment and Media Management at Ithaca College. 

Patricia Zimmermann serves as Director of the FLEFF, and Brett Bossard, Executive Director of Cinemapolis, is associate programmer this year. Leah Shafer is associate producer for the talkbacks.   

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Date: Thursday, 17 March 2022
Time: 9:00 pm Hong Kong Time (GMT +8)

The Lonely Hearts Club Show is a unique performance directed by Anuja Ghosalkar (Drama Queen Theatre Co.). It features the intimate lives of 9 amazing participants, many of whom turned performers for the very first time with this production. Through devised erotica texts based on their own experiences, our performers challenge the viewer to question their ideas of desire, attraction, vulnerability, and our interaction with the internet in all its vastness. The performance will be intercut with opportunities for Q&A and for viewers to share their own experiences.

Moderator: J. Daniel Elam, Department of Comparative Literature, HKU

Date: Thursday, March 17, 2022
Time: 9:00 pm Hong Kong Time
Venue: On Zoom

Registration is required. This event is for 18+ only. By registering for the show, you are confirming you are above 18 years of age. The show has explicit content & images. Viewer discretion is advised.

The Show was developed with the support of the Goethe-Institut in Mumbai. Click here for a behind-the-scenes look at the production. https://bit.ly/LHCpreview

Enquiries: Georgina Challen – gchallen@hku.hk

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Date: Wednesday, 9 March 2022
Time: 10:00 am (GMT +8)

Speaker: Clara Iwasaki, Assistant Professor, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Alberta
Discussant: Nicole Huang, Professor and Chair, Department of Comparative Literature, School of Humanities, HKU
Moderator: Elizabeth LaCouture, Director and Assistant Professor, Gender Studies Programme, School of Humanities, HKU

Date: Wednesday, March 9, 2022
Time: 10:00 am Hong Kong Time
Venue: On Zoom
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This talk focuses on the way three authors, Xiao Hong, Agnes Smedley and Eileen Chang, circulated around the transpacific. All three writers are strongly associated with autobiographical writings and in the case of Xiao and Chang, their sensational biographies (particularly their love lives) have frequently overshadowed their writing. All three women deployed their literary personae, but their control over their image was never absolute. Xiao Hong and Agnes Smedley were friends and more importantly, they circulated each other’s works and literary images. Xiao Hong sees in Smedley’s work a universal feminist struggle. Smedley sees in Xiao Hong a vision of a progressive and particularly Chinese proletarian feminism. For Eileen Chang, her autobiographical novels remained unpublished until many years after her death because her stark self-revelation was inconsistent with the image of old Shanghai glamor that her earlier fiction had conjured up.

Clara Iwasaki is an assistant professor in the department of East Asian Studies at the University of Alberta. Her book Rethinking the Modern Chinese Canon: Refractions across the Transpacific was published by Cambria in 2020.

This event is co-presented by the Committee on Gender Equality and Diversity and the Gender Studies Programme at the University of Hong Kong, with the support of the Center for the Study of Globalization and Cultures (CSGC) and the Department of Comparative Literature, School of Humanities, HKU.

Enquiries: Georgina Challen – gchallen@hku.hk

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