TIĀN ZHÙDÌNG A Touch of Sin
China/Japan/France 2013, Director: Jia Zhangke
Cast: Jiang Wu, Wang Baoqiang, Zhao Tao. 130 mins. DCP. Original language version with German subtitles.
China/Japan/France 2013, Director: Jia Zhangke
Cast: Jiang Wu, Wang Baoqiang, Zhao Tao. 130 mins. DCP. Original language version with German subtitles.
Disenchantment and re-enchantment in landscapes of ruins: Jia Zhangke’s experimental Chinese metropolitan cinema
Lecture by Winnie Yee (approx. 45 min.)
in English language
Film screening:
TIĀN ZHÙDÌNG A Touch of Sin
Four people, four stories, one destiny. In A TOUCH OF SIN it is mainly individual objects that hold the strongest emotions. The lecture examines Jia’s brutal portrait of modern China, which tells of the attempt to reconnect lost ties in a world of destruction and disappearance. Cannes Winner 2013 (Best Screenplay).
Winnie Yee is Assistant Professor in Comparative Literature at the University of Hong Kong.
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
Guest: Winnie Yee
Admission fee: 5,- Euro
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