Presented By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies
LRCCS Film Series | "Night Scene"
After film discussion with S. E. Kile & Markus Nornes
Night Scene 《夜景》 (dir. Cui Zi’en, 75 min., 2004)
Cui Zi’en’s "Night Scene" takes on one of the biggest taboos in contemporary China: male street prostitution. The gripping story follows a boy who discovers his father’s homosexuality, and in the process discovers his own. Night Scene is a unique portrait of a twilight world in parks and clubs that veers between documentary and fiction. Cui mixed real gigolos with actors, while making no strict distinction between homosexuals and prostitutes. It is an ambiguous, layered film, just as boundless as the lives of male prostitutes in China.
About the Director
Cui Zi’en (崔子恩) is from Harbin and is now living in Florida. He is a director, film scholar, screenwriter, novelist and an pioneering queer activist. He graduated from the Chinese Academy of Social Science and now is an Associate Professor at the Beijing Film Academy. The author of books on criticism and theory, Cui Zi’en has also published nine novels in China and Hong Kong, including the first gay novel in modern Chinese literature. He founded the Beijing Queer Film Festival, the first LGBT film festival in 2001. He directed his first film, Men and Women in 1999 and has since written and/or directed over 20 more. Forging an queer video activism, Cui’s work circulates freely between fiction and documentary, the conventional and the avant-garde. His best known films are Enter the Clowns (2002), The Old Testament (2002), Night Scene (2003), and Queer China, “Comrade” China (2008).
See the full schedule of upcoming films: https://events.umich.edu/group/LRCCS?filter=tags%3AFilm+Series,
Cui Zi’en’s "Night Scene" takes on one of the biggest taboos in contemporary China: male street prostitution. The gripping story follows a boy who discovers his father’s homosexuality, and in the process discovers his own. Night Scene is a unique portrait of a twilight world in parks and clubs that veers between documentary and fiction. Cui mixed real gigolos with actors, while making no strict distinction between homosexuals and prostitutes. It is an ambiguous, layered film, just as boundless as the lives of male prostitutes in China.
About the Director
Cui Zi’en (崔子恩) is from Harbin and is now living in Florida. He is a director, film scholar, screenwriter, novelist and an pioneering queer activist. He graduated from the Chinese Academy of Social Science and now is an Associate Professor at the Beijing Film Academy. The author of books on criticism and theory, Cui Zi’en has also published nine novels in China and Hong Kong, including the first gay novel in modern Chinese literature. He founded the Beijing Queer Film Festival, the first LGBT film festival in 2001. He directed his first film, Men and Women in 1999 and has since written and/or directed over 20 more. Forging an queer video activism, Cui’s work circulates freely between fiction and documentary, the conventional and the avant-garde. His best known films are Enter the Clowns (2002), The Old Testament (2002), Night Scene (2003), and Queer China, “Comrade” China (2008).
See the full schedule of upcoming films: https://events.umich.edu/group/LRCCS?filter=tags%3AFilm+Series,
Related Links
Explore Similar Events
-
Loading Similar Events...
