Dislocations: The films of Jia Zhangke

Annual contemporary directors’ symposium
University of Sussex, June 14, 2012, 1-5pm *

Speakers:

Thomas Austin, Felicia Chan, Jeesoon Hong, Sabrina Yu, Mark Betz (respondent)

Hosted by the Centre for Visual Fields, School of Media, Film and Music, and School of English

Programme:

Bramber House 255

1.00 Lunch and welcome

1. 30 Felicia Chan (University of Manchester):
‘Backstage/onstage cosmopolitanism: The World’

2.10 Sabrina Yu (University of Newcastle):
‘Translocal imagination of the hometown and the displacement of the local in Still Life‘

2.50 Thomas Austin (University of Sussex):
‘24 City’s aesthetics of memory’

3.30 Tea and coffee

3.50 Jeesoon Hong (University of Manchester):
‘Shanghai Montage: I Wish I Knew and Expo 2010′

4.30 Mark Betz (King’s College, London) respondent

* A screening of Jia’s I Wish I Knew (2010) took place.