Pre-recorded Conference Speakers’ Presentations
Live Panel Discussions (29&30 January)
Click on the links for the each panelist’s video presentation. If there is no link, please check back later. We will upload them as soon as possible. Each panelist will only offer a very brief summary of the main points of their paper in the live session, most of which will be for discussion.
Panel 1: Ethics and Form
Chair: Sabrina Yu (Newcastle University). Chat Moderator: Chris Berry (KCL).
Markus NORNES (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) “Brushed in Light: Li Xianting and the Cinematographic Calligraph.”
Max BERWALD (USC) “Newly Admissible: Talking Heads and Physical Remains in the Films of Hu Jie.”
Camille BOURGEUS (University of Antwerp) “’History writers of social life’: Wang Bing’s critical realist cinema.”
Yun PENG (University of Hawai’i at Manoa) “Ethics and the Reality of Others.”
Cecilia MELLO (University of São Paulo) “Hu Bo’s Ethics of Realism.”
Jennifer RUTH (Portland State University) “The Private Is Public: Time in Platform and Space in An Elephant Sitting Still.”
XU Kaiyang (USC) “The Grassroots’ Independence: Documenting Precarious Temporality in Self-Made Videos.
Panel 2: Communities – Gender; Ecology
Chair: Chris Berry (KCL). Chat Moderator: Lydia Wu (Newcastle University).
ZHANG Zimu (City University of Hong Kong) “‘Kawakarpo’- History and Future of the Ecological and Archival Chinese Independent Cinema.”
Kelly MCGEORGE (Newcastle University) “Independent Chinese Eco- documentary Practice: Endangered Filmmaking on an Endangered Planet.”
ZHANG Zhen (NYU) “Haptic Visuality and Tactile Resistance in Huang Ji’s Personal Cinema”
Gina MARCHETTI (University of Hong Kong) “Independent Film/Independent Women: Yang Mingming’s Girls Always Happy (2018) and #MeToo in the PRC.”
Hongwei BAO (University of Nottingham) “Ways of Seeing Transgender in Independent Chinese Cinema”
Jinyan ZENG (University of Haifa) “Toward the Feminist Representation: Discovering Female Rebels in Chinese Activist Documentary Films.”
(For reasons of personal security, Zeng Jinyan’s video presentation is only available to her fellow panelists. However, she will be given a little extra time to present some details in the live discussion.)
Panel 3: Rethinking History and Definitions
Chair: Luke Robinson (University of Sussex). Chat Moderator: Sabrina Yu (Newcastle University)
Seio NAKAJIMA (Waseda University) “In Dependence and in Relation: A Relational-Sociological Approach to Chinese Independent Cinema.”
Zoe Meng JIANG (NYU) “The Soil and the Scar: From the Photographic New Wave to the New Documentary Movement.”
Luisa PRUDENTINO (INALCO) “Independent Cinema: Genesis and Early Developments (1989 – 2003).”
Tianqi Yu (QMUL) “Three modes of Independent Chinese Documentary Production and the rise of local documentary industry.”
WU Xiaochu (University of Oxford), “From ‘Independent’ to ‘Networked’: The ‘In- between-ness’ of Chinese Indie Film.”
Panel 4: Production and Exhibition
Chair: Lydia Wu (Newcastle University). Chat Moderator: Luke Robinson (University of Sussex)
Xiang FAN (Goldsmiths University of London) “‘Independent’ Exhibitors: Mediating between Underground and Publicity.”
Maja KORBECKA (Freie Universität Berlin) “Pingyao International Film Festival: Independent Cinema Negotiated.”
Zhaoyu ZHU (KCL) “Do the New Chinese Film Festivals Shape a New Chinese Independent Cinema? A Case study of Yang Lina’s Spring Tide.”
MA Ran (Nagoya University) and TONG Shan (City University of Hong Kong) “It is All About “Youth Cinema” (qingnian dianying)—Independent Cinema, New Auteur, and the FIRST International Film Festival.”
Flora LICHAA (EHESS-CNRS, Paris) “Producing Chinese Independent Films: Two Case Studies of Co-Production.”
HUANG Tianhui (USC) “One Mediated Nation: Observations on Transnational Chinese Documentary.”