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“China Crossings: Ethnographic Film in and of China” a film screening and conversation between filmmakers and scholars

11/11/2017 @ 11:00 am - 6:00 pm

Saturday, November 11, 2017 from 11:00 am – 6:00 pm
Michelson Theater
NYU Department of Cinema Studies
721 Broadway, 6th Floor

Please join us for a day of screenings and conversation that brings together anthropologists, film scholars, and filmmakers whose work and practice are integral to thinking about ethnographic film in and of China today.

“China Crossings: Ethnographic Film in and of China” seeks to interrogate the visual ethnographic gaze in China as it has been deployed by filmmakers from differing national and academic backgrounds. The second installation of a three-part series focused on the practices that aim to stabilize ethnographic film as a recognizable category of cultural production, this event centers on the endogenous and exogenous production of the genre of “ethnographic film” within and outside of China. Through screenings and discussions with filmmakers and scholars Ying Qian (Columbia), J.P. Sniadecki (Northwestern), Gu Tao, Zhen Zhang (NYU), and Angela Zito (NYU), this event will inquire into ethnographic filmmaking as a historical and contemporary practice, as well as an artifact and product of anthropological inquiry.

Co-sponsored by NYU’s Center for Religion and Media and the Asian Film and Media Initiative in the Department of Cinema Studies.

Free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be provided.

For the full schedule, please follow this link.

Details

Date:
11/11/2017
Time:
11:00 am - 6:00 pm
Website:
https://tisch.nyu.edu/cinema-studies/events/fall-2017/china-crossings-ethnographic-film