EVENTS: BU Asian Film Week: Asia: Love and Other Obsessions
The third bi-annual BU Asia Film Week is on from Monday, April 6, to Friday, April 10, 2015! Our theme this year is “Asia: Love and Other Obsessions.” The theme reflects both Asian societies’ own takes on personal relationships in the face of enormous social transformations and the ways in which these relationships are presented in phantasies and stereotypes of other cultures and societies. The festival will highlight the particular features of different countries. The weeklong event will start on Monday, April 6, with a talk by our invited keynote speaker Yomi Braester (Washington University) on Wong Kar-Wai’s masterpiece In the Mood for Love (2000). All films will be screened in the afternoons and evenings. Activities also include Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and Indian food as well as lunch talks focusing on the theme of the film festival. We will conclude with a student symposium which this year features five short films made by COM students which will be discussed by invited student commentators from CAS. The event is sponsored by the BU Center for the Study of Asia, the BU Center for the Humanities, the Geddes Language Center and the Department of Modern Languages and Comparative Literature.
Monday, April 6
Opening Event “Asia: Love and Other Obsessions”
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” Dir. Kar-Wai
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: College of Arts & Sciences, 725 Commonwealth Avenue, Room CAS 200
1 – 3 pm | Korean Film Screening: “A Girl at My Door” Dir. July Jung
Location: Geddes Language Center, 685 Commonwealth Avenue, Room CAS 537A/C
6 – 9 pm | Korean Film Screening: “3-Iron” Dir Kim Ki-duk; 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
1 – 3 pm | Japanese film screening: “Tony Takitani” Dir. Jun Ichikawa
Location: Geddes Language Center, 685 Commonwealth Avenue, Room CAS 533B
6 – 9 pm | Japanese film screening: “Vibrator” Dir. Hiroki Ryûichi; Guest Speaker: Tomiko Yoda (Harvard)
Location: Boston University School of Education, 2 Silber Way, Room 130
Thursday, April 9
12 – 1 pm | Indian Lunch and Lecture Sunil Sharma (BU MLCL) on “The Very Tragic Tale of Devdas”
Location: MLCL 745 Commonwealth Avenue, STH 6th floor lounge
6 – 9 pm | Indian Film Screening: “Dev.D” Dir. Anurag Kashyap Guest Speaker: Tejaswini Ganti (NYU)
Location: Boston University School of Education, 2 Silber Way, Room 130
Friday, April 10
“Short films Asia” Student Symposium
12 – 3 pm | Asian Lunch, students’ film screenings and critiques
Location: College of Arts & Sciences, 725 Commonwealth Avenue, Room CAS 200
This is an educational series, conducted in conjunction with undergraduate class instruction.
Co-Sponsored by BU Center for the Study of Asia, CSA, BU Center for Humanities, Geddes Language Center, and the Department of Modern Languages and Literature