Documentary Film, Regional, Theoretical and Political Parameters
Academy of Film
School of Communication
Hong Kong Baptist University
Date: 25 -27 June 2018 (Mon-Wed)
Conference Venue: CVA1022, Communication and Visual Arts Building, HKBU, 5 Hereford Road, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong.
Screening Venue: CVA104
June 25 (Mon)
Panel 1: HK Documentary Film 1010-1250pm
Chair: Dr. Lo Wai Luk (HKBU)
- Ms. Angelina Chen (Filmmaker)
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Ms. Tammy Cheung (Independent Filmmaker)
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Ms. Lo Yan Wai Connie (Documentary Film Director)
Title: “How Patriotism Drives the 67 Riots?”
4. Dr. Kenny Ng (HKBU)
Title: “In the Mood for Change: Chan Tze-woon’s Mockumentary and Documentary (Yellowing) of the 2014 Umbrella Movement”
5. Dr. Winnie Yee (The University of HK)
Title: “In Search of the Disappearing Rhymes: Topographical Writings In Three HK Documentary Films”
Panel 2: East Asian Documentary Film 230-510pm
Chair: Dr. Choi Jung Bong (HKBU)
- Dr. P. Kerim Friedman (National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan)
Title: “Chronotopes of Indigeneity In Taiwanese Documentary Film Since the Nineties” -
Dr. Kim Jihoon (Chung-ang University, South Korea)
Title: “Post-vérité Turns: Korean Independent Documentary in the 21st Century -
Dr. Ma Ran (Nagoya University, Japan)
Title: “Home-coming Myanmar: Midi Z (Zhao Deyin)’s Migration Machine and Precarious Filmmaking” -
Prof. Markus Nornes (University of Michigan, USA)
Title: “Shooting in the Grey Zone: the Upside of Ethical Risk” -
Prof. Akiyama Tamako (Rikkyo University, Japan)
Title: “Cultural Asylum: The Invisible Fortress of Chinese Independent Documentary”
Screening: “Raise the Umbrellas” – Dr. Evans Chan 530-8pm
June 26 (Tue)
Panel 3: Documentary Film in China 930-1210pm
Chair: Dr. Kenny Ng (HKBU)
- Dr. Chao Shi Yan (HKBU)
Title: “Chinese Queer Documentaries and Lalas with DV Cameras” -
Dr. Gao Qian (Transylvania University, USA)
Title: “The Weaving City – The Story of My Town -
Dr. Xu Yaping Apple (China University of Political Science and Law, China)
Title: “The Documentary Editing Room of Shanghai Television Station and its Oral History Production on the Trauma of War” -
Dr. Jessica Yeung (HKBU)
Title: “Environmental Awareness in Chinese Documentaries” -
Dr. Zhang Zhen (New York University, USA)
Title: “The Intimate Camera in Chinese Independent Documentary”
Panel 4: Documentary Film and the protest movements 2-440pm
Chair: Dr. Chao Shi Yan (HKBU)
- Dr. Evans Chan (Critic and Filmmaker)
Title: “The Umbrella Movement and Martin Luther King – a filmmaker’s reflection” -
Ms. Bonnie Chiu (HKBU)
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Prof. Gina Marchetti (The University of HK)
Title: “Documenting Sexual Citizenship in the HKSAR: Evans Chan’s RAISE THE UMBRELLAS (2016)” -
Prof. Carlos Rojas (Duke University, USA)
Title: “Documentary Protest” -
Dr. Judith Pernin (French School of Asian Studies, EFEO)
Title: “Documentary, Politics and the Aesthetics of Protest in Taiwan and HK from the 1990s onwards”
Screening: “Vanished Archives” – Lo Yan Wai Connie 530-830pm
June 27 (Wed)
Panel 5: Colonial Documentary Film 930-1210pm
Chair: Prof. Ian Aitken (HKBU)
- Prof. Tim Barnard (National University of Singapore)
Title: “Shooting Singapore: Stock Footage of a Colonial City in Popular Films of the 1950s and 1960s” -
Prof. Peter Bloom (University of California Santa Barbara, USA)
Title: “Colonial documentary Film Narrating the Malayan Emergency: Ventriloquizing Subjectivity in British Colonial Film and Radio” -
Dr. Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes (University of Cambridge, UK)
Title: “Legacies of exotic out takes: documentary visual rhetoric ‘made in Hong Kong’” -
Dr. Sandeep Ray (Singapore University of Technology and Design)
Title: “Early Cinematic Visualization of Umma: A 1928 film on the Hajj” -
Dr. Tom Rice (University of St. Andrews, Scotland)
Title: “How to Make Films the Englishmean’s Way” : Film Schools across the British Empire
Panel 6: Theoretical issues: phenomenology and film 2-415pm
Chair: Dr. Dorothy Lau (HKBU)
- Dr. Jenny Chamarette (Queen Mary University of London, UK)
Title: “Autonomy versus interdependence: Complex embodiment in Planet of Snail (Seung-Jun Yi, 2012) and The Grown-Ups (Maite Alberdi, 2016) -
Dr. Tiago de Luca (University of Warwick, UK)
Title: “Homo Sapiens (2016): An Imaginary Documentary -
Dr. Steven Eastwood (Queen Mary University of London, UK)
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Dr. Cecilia Mello (University of São Paulo, Brazil)
Title: “Observantional realism and long duration in Wang Bing’s Crude Oil -
Dr. Richard Ruston (Lancaster University, UK)
Title: “Reality Fictions and Filmic Reality: Recent Films” by Frederick Wiseman
“Island” – Dr. Steven Eastwood 530-8pm