{"id":9963,"date":"2017-08-06T11:44:52","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T15:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/asian\/?p=9963"},"modified":"2017-11-17T21:25:51","modified_gmt":"2017-11-18T02:25:51","slug":"huangwenhai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/asian\/2017\/08\/06\/huangwenhai\/","title":{"rendered":"Film Screening and Discussion with the Director: We (Wo Men \u6211\u4eec)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nBoston University Center for the Study of Asia presents:<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Film Screening and Discussion with the Director:
\nWe (Wo Men\u00a0\u6211\u4eec<\/span>),\u00a0<\/strong>Directed by\u00a0Huang Wenhai\u00a0\u9ec4\u6587\u6d77<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Thursday, November 16, 2017
\n7:00 pm – 9:00 pm<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nThe film screening and discussion will be held at:
\n<\/span><\/strong>CAS 211, Boston University<\/strong>
\n 685 Commonwealth Avenue<\/strong>
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\nABOUT THE FILM<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

WE (Chinese title: Wo Men\u00a0\u6211\u4eec<\/span>)\"wetheworkers\"<\/strong>
\n2008. Documentary. Running time: 102 minutes
\nDirector\/Photography\/editor: Wen Hai
\nProducer: Wen Hai and Helen Cui<\/p>\n

The voices in this film are all conscientious citizens doing their utmost to improve the state of their nation. Their ethos is: “Where affairs of state are concerned, we cannot stand idly by and watch.” And yet the reward for their concern is a lifetime spent in political turmoil, years of periodic intimidation and surveillance. This film illustrates the perils of seeking freedom in a time of darkness, in a time when critique requires transformation. It depicts the harsh realities faced by three generations of activists\u2014young, middle-aged and elderly\u2013 and allows us to better understand their anxieties, hopes, despairs and above all, their persistence.<\/p>\n

ABOUT\u00a0THE\u00a0DIRECTOR<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Wen Hai<\/strong> (a.k.a. HUANG Wenhai \u9ec4\u6587\u6d77) studied at the Beijing Film Academy and since 2001 has been active as an independent film director. Among his best known films are Floating Dust<\/em> \u55a7\u54d7\u7684\u5c18\u571f (2003), which won him the Georges Beauregard award at the 16th Festival International du Documentaire in Marseille in 2005; Dream Walking<\/em> \u68a6\u6e38 (2005); and We<\/em> \u6211\u4eec (2008), which won the Horizons Special Mention award at the 2008 Venice International Film Festival. We the Workers<\/em> \u51f6\u5e74\u4e4b\u7554 (2017) is his most recent documentary. Wen Hai also worked as a cameraman on WANG Bing’s \u738b\u5175 film Three Sisters<\/em> \u4e09\u59ca\u59b9 (2012) and AI Weiwei\u2019s \u827e\u672a\u672a film Human Flow<\/em> \u4eba\u6d41 (2017).<\/span><\/p>\n

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Sponsored by\u00a0<\/span>Boston University’s Center for the Study of Asia, the CAS Dept. of World Languages & Literatures, and the CAS\/COM program in Cinema and Media Studies<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Boston University Center for the Study of Asia presents: Film Screening and Discussion with the Director: We (Wo Men\u00a0\u6211\u4eec),\u00a0Directed by\u00a0Huang Wenhai\u00a0\u9ec4\u6587\u6d77 Thursday, November 16, 2017 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm The film screening and discussion will be held at: CAS 211, Boston University 685 Commonwealth Avenue ABOUT THE FILM WE (Chinese title: Wo Men\u00a0\u6211\u4eec) 2008. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13074,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7613,7617,4210],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/asian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9963"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/asian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/asian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/asian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13074"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/asian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9963"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/asian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10014,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/asian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9963\/revisions\/10014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/asian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/asian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/asian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}