Presented By: Modern Greek Program
Film Screenings: History and Culture in Chinese and Greek Film
Jing Zhang, New College of Florida and Vassiliki Rapti, Harvard University
The U-M Confucius Institute and Modern Greek Program at the Department of Classical Studies present its fourth joint exploration of modern Chinese and Greek cultures, comparing these two countries’ rich cultures and histories in the global context. This unique collaboration is to compare the ways contemporary Chinese and Greeks engage with their respective histories, cultures, performing arts, and films. This year we will discuss “History and Culture in Chinese and Greek Film.” In conjunction with the double lectures on March 31st by Professor Jing Zhang and Vassiliki Rapti, two film screenings will be held. There will be a brief introduction for each film before the screening begins.
6:00 – 8:10 pm, "Dearest" (2014), Directed by Peter Chen. 130 min.
Following years of unrelenting search, Tian Wenjun and ex-wife Lu Xiaojuan finally locate their abducted son in a remote village. After the boy was violently taken away from the village, the abductor’s widow Li Hongqin— the boy’s foster mother — also loses her foster daughter to a state-owned orphanage in Shenzhen Heartbroken, Li goes on a lone but determined journey to get her daughter back. The movie was based on a real life story of a father who used social media to find his missing boy. Courtesy of Wikipedia. https://goo.gl/T5vreq
8:10 – 9:10 pm, "The Aegean in the Words of the Poets" (2003), Directed by Loukia Rikaki. 61 min.
A cinematic voyage based on the words of travel writers and poets from around the world who visited and wrote about the Aegean archipelago over the centuries. Images from most of the Aegean islands and the sea that links them. These texts blend poems and records of journeys from most of the writers who visited the Aegean over the centuries, and who felt compelled to share the emotions the archipelago inspired in them. We are confronted with vivid descriptions of those same emotions which the Aegean triggers in visitors today. Apart from their literary revelations, these texts weave a complex tissue of travellers’ impressions of the Aegean over the centuries. Different opinions ,meanings and formats blend into a common experience of the archipelago through several languages. Courtesy of International Documentary film Festival Amsterdam. https://goo.gl/MfJHKX
6:00 – 8:10 pm, "Dearest" (2014), Directed by Peter Chen. 130 min.
Following years of unrelenting search, Tian Wenjun and ex-wife Lu Xiaojuan finally locate their abducted son in a remote village. After the boy was violently taken away from the village, the abductor’s widow Li Hongqin— the boy’s foster mother — also loses her foster daughter to a state-owned orphanage in Shenzhen Heartbroken, Li goes on a lone but determined journey to get her daughter back. The movie was based on a real life story of a father who used social media to find his missing boy. Courtesy of Wikipedia. https://goo.gl/T5vreq
8:10 – 9:10 pm, "The Aegean in the Words of the Poets" (2003), Directed by Loukia Rikaki. 61 min.
A cinematic voyage based on the words of travel writers and poets from around the world who visited and wrote about the Aegean archipelago over the centuries. Images from most of the Aegean islands and the sea that links them. These texts blend poems and records of journeys from most of the writers who visited the Aegean over the centuries, and who felt compelled to share the emotions the archipelago inspired in them. We are confronted with vivid descriptions of those same emotions which the Aegean triggers in visitors today. Apart from their literary revelations, these texts weave a complex tissue of travellers’ impressions of the Aegean over the centuries. Different opinions ,meanings and formats blend into a common experience of the archipelago through several languages. Courtesy of International Documentary film Festival Amsterdam. https://goo.gl/MfJHKX
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