Light of the Setting Sun — A Documentary Film Screening and Discussion with Vicky Du

For non-Columbia affiliates, registration is required to access the Morningside campus. After registering you will receive an email with a QR code that must be presented along with a government-issued ID (your name must match exactly the name registered for the event) at either the 116th Street & Broadway or 116th Street & Amsterdam gates for entry. Please register using a unique email address (one email address per registrant) by 4:00 pm on April 14 for campus access.

Names will be submitted for QR codes 1-2 days prior to the event. Registrants will receive an email from CU Guest Access with the QR code before or on the day of the event. NOTE: You cannot access campus using the QR code from Eventbrite.

Speaker: 

Vicky Du, director and producer

Moderators: 

Nick Bartlett, Assistant Professor of Contemporary Chinese Culture and Society, AMEC/EALAC, Barnard College

Kaitlin Hao, PhD Student, EALAC, Columbia University

Light of the Setting Sun (2024) is a patient inquiry and unfolding of filmmaker Vicky Du’s family history. Using archival, voiceover, and intimate interviews with family members, Du pieces together her family’s war-torn past across three generations and three countries: China, Taiwan, and the United States. What results is an honest, empathetic and nuanced portrait of the costs of survival of a post-war, diaspora family. Du will screen the film and participate in a Q&A afterwards. (Watch the film’s trailer below.)

This event is hosted by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute and co-sponsored by the Asian American Initiative, the Film and Media Studies Program, and the Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures.

Registration: To attend this event in-person, please register HERE.