Hello New York! Hello Columbian University!! I'm coming for some screenings with two other greatly respectful filmmakers!! Hope to see you there!!
Full Programme https://library.columbia.edu/libraries/eastasian/chinese/queer_sinophone_cinema.html
February 16, 2023 Affirming Queer Intimacies in Sinophone Cinema: Popo Fan Films
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Butler Library, 535 W. 114 St., New York, NY 10027 203
As part of CUL ADEI programs, the event features the screening of "New Beijing New Marriage" and "The Drum Tower " by Popo Fan, an activist and one of China’s leading queer filmmakers, 6:00pm-7:30pm, followed by Q&A panel discussion with the director, 7:30pm-8:15pm, facilitated by Prof. Ying Qian, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures and Prof. Ron Gregg, Director of MA Program in Film/Media Studies and moderated by Jim Cheng, Director of C.V. Starr East Asian Library.
Contact Information
Chengzhi Wang
212 854-3721
February 17, 2023 Final day of Affirming Queer Intimacies in Sinophone Cinema conference.
4–5:40 pm: Film screening of Spider Lilies 刺青 (2007)
Dir. Zero Chou 周美玲
Run time 97 minutes
Languages: In Mandarin Chinese; with English subtitle
5:50–6:35 pm: Q&A panel discussion with the director Zero Chou 周美玲
6:45–8 pm: Final Conference Roundtable Discussion
Directors Zi'en Cui 崔子恩 (Enter the Clowns 丑角登場, 2002), Popo Fan 范坡坡 (New Beijing New Marriage 新前门大街; The Drum Tower 鼓楼西), and Zero Chou 周美玲 (Spider Lilies 刺青, 2007), in conversation with Columbia professors Ying Qian and Ron Gregg, along with Jim Cheng, Director, C. V. Starr East Asian Library.
8–9:30 pm: Catered Dinner
The events are jointly sponsored by the Columbia University Libraries, the School of the Arts, the Film and Media Studies Program, the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, the Global Center Beijing, the C.V. Starr East Asian Library, and the Starr Library Dragon Summit Culture Endowment Fund.