The second session: Tuesday 24th February 2009, 6pm – 8:30pm.
Screening: Using (2007), dir. Zhou Hao. With ENGLISH subtitles / UK Premiere !
This film has been screened at:
- International documentary film festival Amsterdam 2007Hong Kong Film Festival 2008
- The 5th China Independent Film Festival 2008
- Taiwan International Documentary Festival 2008
Synopsis of the film:
A chance encounter between the director, a journalist by day, and a small group of people who, despite all odds, willingly invite him into their world of drug use and peddling, and "Using" was born. Starting out with no clear plan to make a documentary, the director uses his camera to capture the course of their coming to know each other. Three years on, the film's key figure faces the death penalty for the crime of "transporting drugs," the kind of story to be found in cities across the world. Just what exactly is the relationship between a filmmaker and those being portrayed? "Using" has the answer.
Talk: "Liveness and Location Shooting in Chinese Documentary from the 1990s"
Speaker: Luke Robinson, University of Nottingham
Venue: Lecture Theatre 1 & 2 (Old Cinema), Regent Campus, University of Westminster, 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2UW
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Tianqi Yu
Ph.D candidate
Research Assistant of
Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media
The School of Media, Arts and Design
University of Westminster
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Screening-seminars: Chinese new independent documentaries - UK Premiere!