Join us Tuesday, February 20th at 4:30 pm in Cobb 307 at the University of Chicago for a screening of Nothing News (庚子新年) (2023, 63 min.), followed by a discussion with Director GU Xue (顧雪) who will be in attendance.
Part of the Adaptation and Genre in Chinese Film: Reinventing the Cinematic film series, Nothing News is a portrait of the filmmaker’s family during the 2020 Chinese New Year, when they had to quarantine at home and spent time reading the news on their cellular phones. While Gu Xue’s family was reading about the pandemic, she turned on her camera, and a discussion about news and truth began. A surprising twist occurs at the end, when the director raises the question of which news one should trust.
This screening is co-sponsored by the University of Chicago Center for East Asian Studies (with generous support from a Title VI National Resource Center Grant from the U.S. Department of Education), the Franke Institute for the Humanities, Film Studies Center, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, and Department of Cinema and Media Studies.
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Posted by: Paola Iovene <iovene@uchicago.edu>