Asia Film Week: Asia - Love and Other Obsessions
- Starts: 4:00 pm on Monday, April 6, 2015
- Ends: 3:00 pm on Friday, April 10, 2015
Opening Event “Asia: Love and Other Obsessions”
Location: Boston University School of Education, 2 Silber Way, Room 130
4 – 5 pm | Keynote lecture: Yomi Braester (Washington University)
5 – 6 pm | Reception (SED First floor lobby)
6 – 8 pm | Hong Kong Film Screening: In the Mood for Love (2000, Wong Kar-Wai, 97 minutes)
Location: Boston University School of Education, 2 Silber Way, Room 130
Tuesday, April 7
12 – 1 pm | Korean Lunch Talk: Jaemin Roh (BU MLCL)
Location: Geddes Language Center, 685 Commonwealth Avenue, 5th floor lounge
1 – 3 pm | Korean Film Screening: A Girl at My Door (2014, July Jung, 119 minutes)
Location: Geddes Language Center, 685 Commenwealth Avenue, Room CAS 537A/C
6 – 9 pm | Korean Film Screening: 3-Iron (2004, Kim Ki-duk, 88 minutes) Evening Guest Speaker: Hyon Joo Yoo (University of Vermont)
Location: Boston University School of Education, 2 Silber Way, Room 130
Wednesday, April 8
12 – 1 pm | Sushi Lunch Talk: Anna Zielinska Elliot (BU MLCL) on Haruki Murakami
Location: Geddes Language Center, 685 Commonwealth Avenue, 5th floor lounge
1 – 3 pm | Japanese film screening: Tony Takitani (2004, Jun Ichikawa, 75 minutes)
Location: Geddes Language Center, 685 Commonwealth Avenue, Room CAS 533B
6:00 – 9:00 pm | Japanese film screening: Vibrator (2003, Hiroki Ryûichi)
Evening Guest Speaker: Tomiko Yoda (Harvard University)
Location: Boston University School of Education, 2 Silber Way, Room 130
Thursday, April 9
12 – 1:00 pm | Indian Lunch and Lecture Sunil Sharma (BU MLCL) on “The Very Tragic Tale of Devdas: One Novella and Four Hindi Films”
Location: MLCL 745 Commonwealth Avenue, STH 6th floor lounge
6:00 – 9:00 pm | Indian Film Screening: Dev.D (2009, Anurag Kashyap, 144 minutes)
Evening Guest Speaker: Tejaswini Ganti (New York University)
Lcation: Boston University School of Education, 2 Silber Way, Room 130
Friday, April 10 “Short films Asia” Student Symposium
12 – 3:00 pm | Asian Lunch, students’ film screenings and critiques
Film screenings:
Into the Night Dir. Kate Li (6 minutes 30 seconds);
Special Focus Dir. Bingxia Zhang;
Along the Rail Dir. Qing Shao (6 minutes 14 seconds);
Tianjin Driver Dir. Xavery Robin (8 minutes 56 seconds);
The Student Film Dir. Fuxin Zhang (10 minutes 6 seconds).
Commentators: Adam Dimanshteyn Garrett Gilkey, Brian Huang, Ricardo kalaidjian, Emily McHugh, Cassandra Sunga
Location: College of Arts & Sciences, 725 Commonwealth Avenue, Room CAS 200