The Program for the Study of Women and Gender and the Film Studies Program at Smith College are pleased to sponsor a visit by independent filmmaker, media artist, and activist Yau Ching (Associate Professor of Cultural Studies at Lingnan University in Hong Kong)
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
Time: 8:00-10:30 pm
Location: Seelye Hall 201, Smith College
Preview Screening: “Ho Yuk (Let’s Love Hong Kong)” – 87 min
Followed by Q&A with filmmaker Yau Ching
Thursday, December 6, 2007
Time: 7:00-8:30 pm
Location: Seelye Hall 201, Smith College
Annual Kixie Denison Fieldman ‘53 Lecture
“Return of the Bad Girl”
This public lecture by Yau Ching will include a screening of the short
film “I’m Starving” and allow time for a Q & A with the filmmaker.
Yau Ching is a prolific film/video artist and writer. Her work focuses
on issues on migration, sexuality, (post)coloniality and marginalized
subjectivity. Using examples from her diverse body of work which crosses
genres including documentary, narrative and experimental, and weaves
between single-channel and installation, this talk will discuss various
strategies of exploring cultural, political, local and inter-local
issues through the processes of artistic conceptualization and creation.
A graduate of the Whitney Program in studio art, Yau Ching received her
BA in comparative literature from University of Hong Kong, MA in media
studies from New School University, and PhD in media arts from
University of London. Her film/video work includes “Ho Yuk” (Let?s
Love Hong Kong) (Grand Prix for Fiction, Figueira da Foz International
Film Festival, Portugal), “I?m Starving” (Silver Prize, Brno16 Film
Festival, Czech Republic), and “Flow” (Special Jury Prize, Image Forum,
Japan), among others. Author of six books, her writings include, Filming
Margins: Tang Shu Shuen, A Forgotten Hong Kong Woman Director (2004).
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