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Panel IV |
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Title |
Collective Chinese Cinephilia: Spectatorship and Filmmaking as Community Building
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Chair |
Dr. Timmy Chih-Ting Chen
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Description |
Film spectatorship and filmmaking are simultaneously solitary and collective. This panel proposes to revisit specific instances of collective Chinese cinephilia in Hong Kong, mainland China, and the global Chinese diaspora from the 1950s until present. Speakers will discuss the practice of film spectatorship and filmmaking as community building in relation to a Hong Kong Cantonese left-wing film classic; experimental film clubs in Hong Kong; a Chinese artists' collective's global tour across university campuses; and the New Wave film movement in the Chaoshan region of Guangdong, where a collective of emerging filmmakers, researchers, and other cultural workers spearhead self-organized filmmaking, exhibition, and research activities.
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Keynote Speaker |
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Professor Jean Ma, Department of Comparative Literature, University of Hong Kong. Topic: Cinema in Community: New Histories of Chinese and World Cinephilia URL: https://complit.hku.hk/index.php/faculty/trzcacak-rs-side-profile-png-244905-2/
Short bio: Jean Ma is the Mr. and Mrs. Hung Hing-ying Professor in the Arts at the University of Hong Kong. Her books include Melancholy Drift: Marking Time in Chinese Cinema; Still Moving: Between Cinema and Photography; and Sounding the Modern Woman: The Songstress in Chinese Cinema. Other writings have been published in Camera Obscura, Criticism, Film Quarterly, Grey Room, Journal of Chinese Cinemas, and October. She is the coeditor of “Music, Sound, and Media,” a book series at the University of California Press. Her recent monograph At the Edges of Sleep: Moving Images and Somnolent Spectators (available in an open-source digital edition) was a finalist for the 2023 Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards and the 2023 Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present Book Prize.
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Panelists |
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Dr. Kristof van den Troost, Centre for China Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Topic: “In the Face of Demolition: Hong Kong Community Values and Their Cinephiliac Mythologization” URL: https://www.ccs.cuhk.edu.hk/profile/kristof-van-den-troost/ Short bio: Kristof Van den Troost is an assistant professor at the Centre for China Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). His first monograph, Hong Kong Crime Films: Criminal Realism, Censorship and Society, 1947-1986, was published by Edinburgh University Press in 2023. |
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Dr. Timmy Chih-Ting Chen, Department of Humanities, Language and Translation, Hong Kong Metropolitan University.
Topic: “'Hong Kong New Cinema' and Chinese Cold War Cinephilia: From the College Cine Club, the Film Guard Association, to the Phoenix Cine Club, 1966–1977” URL: https://www.hkmu.edu.hk/hlt/timmychen/
Short bio: Timmy Chih-Ting Chen is Assistant Professor in Cultural Studies in the School of Arts and Social Sciences at Hong Kong Metropolitan University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Hong Kong with the dissertation “In the Mood for Music: Sonic Extraterritoriality and Musical Exchange in Hong Kong Cinema” (2016). Dr. Chen has published in A Companion to Wong Kar-wai (Wiley Blackwell), the Journal of Chinese Cinemas, Surveillance in Asian Cinema (Routledge), The Assassin (HKU Press), Frames Cinema Journal, and Sound Stage Screen. He is working on “Cross-Cultural Collaboration and Inter-Asia Identities: Wartime Shanghai and Postwar Hong Kong Song-and-Dance Films, 1931–1972”; Hong Kong experimental cinema and cinephilia during the 1960s and 1970s; and photographer Fan Ho's cinema. |
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Dr.
Wesley Jacks,
Department of Digital Arts and Creative Industries, Lingnan University, Hong
Kong.
Topic: “Four films, three dancers, and a surfing session: The immersive practices of the Folk Memory Project on tour” URL: https://www.ln.edu.hk/daci/faculty/details/wesleyjacks
Short bio: Wesley Jacks is Assistant Professor in the Department of Digital Arts and Creative Industries at Lingnan University in Hong Kong. He has taught at tertiary institutions in Beijing, Hong Kong, and Santa Barbara, and his research centers on media industry studies and Chinese film historiographies. His work has appeared in Journal of Chinese Cinemas, International Journal of Cultural Policy, and Global-e. |
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Dr. Ma Ran, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Humanities, Nagoya University, Japan.
Topic: “Vernacular New Waves, Collectivity, and Post-Independent Chinese Cinema: 'Chaoshan New Wave' as an Example URL: https://profs.provost.nagoya-u.ac.jp/html/100007162_en.html
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