take home project (THP)
Deadline:
December 20th, Wed, 5pm, via email to Ran. Unless emergency happens, no late
submission is allowed.
There are 2 options
for the THP, and please choose ONE from
1.Participate a film
screening + Skype Q&A event at NU on December 4th (Monday),
4:30pm @ Rm 131. We would show a Chinese independent documentary
“Self-Portrait: Born in 47 KM” (selection in the Asian New Currents, Yamagata
International Documentary Film Festival 2017). See more from the flyers.
Your task: write a 300-word film review for this
documentary, format free.
Wu Wenguang is a
foundational figure of Chinese independent documentary film and co-founder of
the Caochangdi Workstation in Beijing. In 2010, Wu launched the
multidisciplinary and collaborative Folk Memory Project to document the
gathering of oral histories from the rural survivors of China’s Great Famine
(1958-1961). In the past six years, the project participants have interviewed
1,220 villagers in 246 villages spread across 20 provinces. Zhang’s “Born in 47
KM” is part of the Folk Memory Project documentaries.
2. Report on a FILM
event—could be a film festival or a special film screening etc., and make
observations and arguments on the format, flow and significance of this event;
you could refer to media coverage from New York Times etc. for
inspiration.
Word limit for the
report: 300-500 words
NOTE: I believe you
won’t make up an event for a fun project like this, but it would be great if
you could attach a link or event information too at the end of the report.
Upcoming event in
town: Aichi Art Film Festival (Nov 21-26); check out the official site of
Aichi Arts Center. Program is not yet out, but they would normally show lots of
experimental films from the US and Europe as well.
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