[Commlist] Conference: 'Reassessing Chinese Independent Cinema: Past, Present ... and Future?'

  *Reassessing Chinese Independent Cinema: Past, Present … and Future?*


  Conference

Dates: 29-30 January 2021

via Zoom

Chinese Independent Film Archive & Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne

Please click to register 
<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reassessing-chinese-independent-cinema-past-present-and-future-tickets-132239352463>

If Wu Wenguang’s Bumming in Beijing (《流浪北京》, 1990) is considered to 
mark the birth of Chinese independent cinema, that cinema celebrated its 
30th birthday in 2020. But if independence is defined in China as 
meaning production without government permission, China’s first film law 
in 2017 made that practice illegal. The intervening decades saw the 
emergence of a broader film culture supporting this filmmaking, from 
film festivals to film criticism, but also this culture’s metamorphosis 
under pressure from both state and market. Can we still speak of 
independent cinema in the PRC, and if so, what does it mean to do so?

“Reassessing Chinese Independent Cinema: Past, Present… And Future?” is 
the first international conference devoted to Chinese independent 
cinema. At this important moment, we see to consolidate and advance this 
emergent field of study and to take stock of the past, present and 
future of Chinese independent film. After thirty years, there is a 
significant body of literature on the subject, in a range of languages. 
What have we learned? What is missing? And what is still to be done?

This conference is part of a UK Arts and Humanities Research 
Council-funded project entitled ‘Independent Cinema in China: State, 
Market and Film Culture’.

The full conference programme can be found in the accompanying attachment.

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