ZHÀNTÁI Platform
PR China 2000. Director: Jia Zhangke
Cast: Wang Hongwei, Zhao Tao, Liang Jingdong. 155 mins. 35mm. Original version with German subtitles.
PR China 2000. Director: Jia Zhangke
Cast: Wang Hongwei, Zhao Tao, Liang Jingdong. 155 mins. 35mm. Original version with German subtitles.
Authorship and Hypermediality in PLATFORM
Lecture by Cecília Mello (ca. 45 mins) in English language
ZHÀNTÁI Platform
PR China 2000. Director: Jia Zhangke
Cast: Wang Hongwei, Zhao Tao, Liang Jingdong. 155 mins. 35mm. Original version with German subtitles.
A theatre group from rural Fenyang fights against the decline of communism and the rise of popular culture in China. The film takes a look back at the 1980s, a key decade in China’s recent history. In a network of historical and artistic references, the film interweaves personal memories of the author – who himself comes from Fenyang – with collective history. Pop songs play a central role in this, and Cecília Mello’s uses them as a starting point in her analysis.
Cecília Mello teaches film and audiovisual media at the University of São Paulo. Her publications include The Cinema of Jia Zhangke: Realism and Memory in Chinese Film (2019).
Lecture & Film
Jia Zhangke: Cinema of Transformation
Within four decades, the People’s Republic of China has transformed itself at a breathtaking pace from an agrarian state into the world’s second largest highly technical economy: The films of Jia Zhangke, one of the most important Chinese directors of today, are seismograms of this transformation. Until July 2020, the Lecture & Film series will focus on Jia Zhangke’s work.
More information: jia-zhangke.de
Film Series: Lecture & Film: Jia Zhangke
Hier geht es zu allen Lecture&Film-Terminen im Januar
Guest: Cecília Mello
Admission fee: 5,- Euro
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