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YOURSELF AND YOURS2020 Asian Studies Asian-American Studies Cinema Studies
When painter Youngsoo (Kim Joohyuk) learns that his girlfriend, Minjung (Lee Yooyoung), was recently seen having drinks with another man, he cant help but question her about it. It doesnt go well and they part on bad terms. The next day, Youngsoo tries to find her, but cant. As he wanders and frets, Minjung has a series of encounters with other men. But to them it seems shes not herself.
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GRASS (narrative)2019 Asian Studies Cinema Studies In the corner of a small café, Areum sits typing
on her laptop. At the tables around her, other customers enact the various
dramas of their lives. Is she merely writing what she hears? Or is she hearing
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HOTEL BY THE RIVER (narrative)2019 Asian Studies Cinema Studies
An aging poet, Younghwan, summons his two estranged sons to a solitary hotel beside the Han River because he feels his death is near. While waiting for them to arrive, he meets two women out walking in the new-fallen snow and is struck by their angelic beauty.
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SUBURBAN BIRDS (narrative)2019 Asian Studies Cinema Studies Urban Studies
Hao (Mason Lee) is part of a team of young engineers called in to investigate a series of craters that have opened up on the edge of the city. As he and his team survey the subsiding area, another story is taking place in the same suburban landscape. A younger boy, also named Hao, spends long afternoons playing with friends and making mischief until one-by-one, his playmates start to disappear. As these parallel stories unfold, the connections between them proliferate and grow stranger.
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CHINESE PORTRAIT2019 Anthropology Asian Studies Art History Cinema Studies Photography Urban Studies
From acclaimed director Wang Xiaoshuai (Beijing Bicycle; So Long, My Son) comes a personal snapshot of contemporary China in all its diversity. Shot over the course of ten years on both film and video, the film consists of a series of carefully composed tableaus of people and environments, each one more extraordinary than the last.
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LAILA AT THE BRIDGEAsian Studies Cultural Studies Directed by Women Health Middle Eastern Studies Cinema Studies Women's Studies 2018 2019 Laila at the Bridge takes the viewer on a harrowing journey to Kabul’s dark underpass, following a woman who attempts to save as many drug addicts as she can. |
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I'VE GOT A LITTLE PROBLEM2018 Art History Cultural Studies LGBTQ Asian Studies Cinema Studies Short Films Human Sexuality
I’ve Got a Little Problem chronicles internationally renowned photographer and poet Ren Hang’s struggle with Chinese censorship, painful public scrutiny, and manic depression, that eventually sent his life spiraling out of control.
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ON THE BEACH AT NIGHT ALONE2018 Cinema Studies Asian Studies
From master director Hong Sangsoo comes his most personal film to date, On The Beach at Night Alone. Starring Kim Minhee (The Handmaiden, Claire's Camera)—in the role that won her the Silver Bear for best actress in Berlin.
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WITH THIS RINGDirected by Women Women's Studies Asian-American Studies Family Relations 2017 Asian Studies
Filmed for six years, With this Ring follows India’s famed female boxing team and provides an inside look at the challenges they face – gender discrimination, pressure to conform to traditional gender roles, and lack of recognition by the public despite dominating the international boxing scene
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THE WRONG LIGHT2017 Asian Studies Children & Young Adult Criminal & Law Family Relations Southeast Asian Studies Cinema Studies Directed by Women
A charismatic activist leads a globally-regarded NGO that provides shelter and education for girls rescued from brothels in Northern Thailand. But as the filmmakers meet the girls and their families, discrepancies begin to emerge and the story they're telling takes an unexpected turn.
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STRAY DOGSCinema Studies Asian Studies 2015 Narrative Films
A haunting masterpiece and possibly the last film from the great Tsai Ming-liang, Stray Dogs is a visually powerful work about a single father and his two young children trying to survive on the streets of Taipei. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival.
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THE ANABASIS OF MAY AND FUSAKO SHIGENOBU, MASAO ADACHI AND 27 YEARS WITHOUT IMAGES2014 Terrorism Studies Middle Eastern Studies Media Studies Criminal & Law Cinema Studies Asian Studies Flaherty Collection
Mixing personal stories, political history, revolutionary propaganda and film theory, artist Eric Baudelaire illuminates the idealism and radicalism of left-wing extremist movements of the 1970s by interweaving the stories of two of its protagonists: May Shigenobu, daughter of the founder of the Japanese Red Army, and Masao Adachi, the revered Japanese director who gave up cinema to take up arms.
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AS LONG AS THERE'S BREATHSensory Ethnography Lab Women's Studies Labor Studies Asian Studies 2014 Directed by Women
Following the acclaimed Kale and Kale and Monsoon- Reflections, As Long as There's Breath is Stephanie Spray's third film documenting the lives of the Gayeks family in Nepal. Building on a deep bond of trust (Spray was eventually adopted by the family), she captures a multi-generational household struggling for cohesion after the departure of a beloved son.
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UNTITLEDSensory Ethnography Lab 2014 Asian Studies Anthropology Directed by Women
A revealing one-shot portrait of two Nepali newlyweds in a moment of rest and playful interaction, Untitled challenges our perception of two themes at the very core of ethnographic filmmaking: human relationships and the ways in which they can be experienced by the viewer.
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KĀLE AND KĀLESensory Ethnography Lab Asian Studies Anthropology 2014 Directed by Women
In exploring the lives of two wandering Nepali musicians, an uncle and nephew, Kāle and Kāle (pronounced kah-lay) exposes the rootless occupation of the Gaine caste and communicates both its joys and pitfalls – domestic, economic and spiritual – in their daily lives.
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MONSOON-REFLECTIONSWomen's Studies Sensory Ethnography Lab Labor Studies Asian Studies Anthropology 2014 Directed by Women
Drawing its title from a poem by the renowned Nepali poet Lekhnath Paudyal, which depicts the monsoon season as sublime and blissful, “joyous from start to finish,” filmmaker Stephanie Spray captures the melancholy and grit of two strong-willed female field hands (passengers in Spray and Velez’ Manakamana) as they carry out their arduous routines; a deeply felt reflection on labor, gender, and fleeting pleasures in rural Nepal.
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THE YELLOW BANK2014 Sensory Ethnography Lab Asian Studies Anthropology
A short documentary that captures the longest total solar eclipse of the 21st century, The Yellow Bank takes you on a contemplative boat ride across the Huangpu River in Shanghai, China. The film uses the eclipse as a catalyst to explore the way weather, light, and sound affect the urban architectural environment during this extremely rare phenomenon.
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SONGHUASensory Ethnography Lab Labor Studies Environmental Studies Asian Studies Anthropology 2014
In northeastern China, the Songhua River has for generations served as a vital center – for leisure, commerce, and most importantly, drinking water –
for the people of Harbin. Filmed only one year after a major chemical spill in its waters, Songhua depicts the enduring and complex relationship between
the city’s residents and their "mother river," and considers the environmental implications of the waterway’s condition.
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DEMOLITION / CHAIQIAN (拆 - 迁)Sensory Ethnography Lab Asian Studies 2014 Sociology Urban Studies Labor Studies
Focusing on a vast demolition site in the center of Chengdu, the Sichuan capital in western China, a bustling site emblematic of the rapid growth and development occurring throughout the country, J.P. Sniadecki’s Demolition is a wonderfully patient and revealing portrait of the migrant laborers who work and live in its shadow.
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MANAKAMANAAsian Studies Cinema Studies Anthropology Cultural Studies 2014 Sensory Ethnography Lab Directed by Women
Produced by the directors of Sweetgrass and Leviathan, Manakamana is an exhilarating, one-of-a-kind documentary experience. Filmed entirely inside the narrow confines of a cable car, high above a jungle in Nepal, that transports villagers to an ancient mountaintop temple, it is an acute ethnographic investigation into culture, religion, technology and modernity.
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