"Mystery in a Floating City: City, Space, and Mental Life in the Post-Socialist China"
Department: East Asian Studies
Date and Time: November 13, 2015 | 5:30 PM-8:30 PMEvent Location: Humanities Gateway 1010
Event Details
The graduate students with the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures would like to invite you to a quarterly film & discussion series. This quarter’s theme is "Boundary, Crossing, and Community." Film screenings are free and followed by a short discussion. Light refreshments will be provided.
We will be screening "Mystery" (浮城迷事, 2012) [Dir. Lou Ye] on Friday, November 13th, 2015 at 5:30 p.m. This film examines the ill-constructed spatial and human interrelationships that generate distortion and deviation in experiences of urban world in the post-socialist China. This film unveils the male protagonist's distorted relationships with his two “wives.” The story starts with an accident and ends with a murder, thus leaving mysterious yet harmonious atmosphere at the “floating city.” In a discussion, we will re-map the stuffy space of this film from a physical land-space to a mental mind-scape. Also, we will talk about a grand concept of the transition moment in China as well as the dwellers’ daily triviality and routinized insignificances.
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FYI: This is the last film screening this quarter.
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