Hong Kong/Hollywood at the Borders: Alternative Perspectives, Alternative Cinemas April 1-5, 2004 Hong Kong/Hollywood at the Borders encourages a fresh perspective on topics including Hong Kong filmmakers working in Hollywood, American- educated filmmakers working in Hong Kong, genres of common concern (e.g., action, martial arts, comedy, and melodrama), economic and industrial links between Hong Kong and Hollywood involving transnational capital flows, labor migrations, and the globalization of culture and media, and issues involving gender, class, race, ethnicity, political affiliations and national formations. Assessing the links between Hong Kong New Wave cinema and the rise of the American independents forms the foundation for further critical consideration of the connections between Asian American film, Hong Kong experimental and alternative media, and other non-commercial film practices. In addition, the symposium includes scholarship on Hong Kong and American film within the wider context of international film culture, with a discussion of competition between the industries in Asia, international film festivals, and in relation to the development of global film aesthetics. Cinema practices at the border of Hong Kong and Hollywood, including (but not limited to) connections with Canada, Korea, Thailand, Taiwan, and the People’s Republic, are included. The symposium is jointly sponsored by the Fulbright Program in Hong Kong, the U.S. Consulate General in Hong Kong and Macau, the Hong Kong-America Center, Videotage, the Hong Kong Film Archive, the Centre of Asian Studies, the American Studies Program and the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Hong Kong and the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities at University of Macau. Special thanks to the Hong Kong International Film Festival. The symposium organizing committee consists of Glenn Shive (Hong Kong America Center), Ramona Curry (Fulbright, Hong Kong Baptist University), Amy Lee (Fulbright, University of Hong Kong), Nicole Hess (Fulbright, University of Hong Kong), Staci Ford (University of Hong Kong), Tan See Kam (University of Macau), and Gina Marchetti (University of Hong Kong). For information, please contact Pauline Lau of the Hong Kong-America Center at [log in to unmask], or Gina Marchetti, University of Hong Kong, at [log in to unmask], or Tan See Kam, University of Macau, at [log in to unmask] All events are free; registration required. Schedule of Events Thursday, April 1—University of Hong Kong (Council Chamber, 8/F. Meng Wah Complex) 2:30 p.m.—Registration opens. 3:00—Opening—Dedication to the memory of Leslie Cheung on the 1st anniversary of his death 3:15-4:45 pm--Panel 1 Panel: Independent Film at the Borders Chair: Susan Ingram (Comp Lit, HKU) Panelists: Nicole Hess (Comp Lit, HKU), The Indies and Their Avatars: Tracking the Relationship between Hong Kong Indy Directors, Funding Institutions, and Their Publics Cheng Kwok Hung (HKU), Global Festival Circuit and the Chinese Films It Makes Zhang Yingjin (Fulbright), The Question of the Audience in Contemporary Chinese Independent Films and Videos 4:45-5 pm--Break 5-7 Panel 2 Topic: Representing Gender across Media and National Borders Chair: King-Kok Cheung (Fulbright) Presenters: Maureen Sabine (HKU), For Whom the Bells Toll: Ingrid Bergman and her Hollywood Grooming for the Role of the American Nun Cheung Ting Yan, Elizabeth (HKU), A Hollywood Tale of Two Chinese Women: Suzie Wong and Mulan Disney Amy Lee (Fulbright), Translocal Contexts: Reading Gender and Sexuality on HK TV Drama Serials LO Wai Chun (Comp Lit, HKU), Gilda and Jealousy 7-8:30 pm City University of Hong Kong student screening #1 Introduction: Linda Lai (City University of Hong Kong) Title: Micro-Narratives: New Language, New Experience, and Experimental Pedagogy For New Screen Contexts 8:30-10:30 Panel 3 Topic: From Hollywood to Shanghai and Hong Kong Chair: Mette Hjort (Comp Lit, HKU) Gordon Slethaug (Denmark), Tribalism and Orchestrated Violence: Scorsese’s Directing of THE AGE OF INNOCENCE and THE GANGS OF NEW YORK Peter Swirski (HKU), Mr. Smith Goes to Hollywood Emily Luk (Comp Lit, HKU), Representation of Shanghai in Hong Kong Films Fiona Law Yuk Wa (Comp Lit, HKU), Transnational Contexts for Interpreting Hong Kong and American Films Sylvia J. Martin (UC-Irvine), Fantasy at Work: The Social World(s) of the Hong Kong and Hollywood Film Industries Friday, April 2— University of Hong Kong (Council Chamber, 8/F. Meng Wah Complex) 9:00-10:30 a.m. Panel 4 Topic: City Stories Chair: Staci Ford (HKU) Presenters: Karin Badt (University of Paris VIII), Postmodern Alienation: From Hong Kong to New York Peter Rist (Concordia University), Johnnie To and Film Noir Staci Ford (History, HKU), Hong Kong Film Goes to America Zhou Xuelin (University of Auckland), Rocks on the Road to Beijing 10:30-10:45—Break 10:45-noon-- Panel 5 Panel: Transnational Action Chair: Yang Ming-Yu (Tamkang University) Presenters: Lauren Steimer (NYU), Nuxia: Star-Laborer as Embodied Special Effect Kwai-Cheung Lo (HKBU), Copies of Copies: Rethinking Representations of Women Warriors along the Line between Hollywood and Hong Kong Cinemas Mao Sihui (Macao Polytechnic Institute), Decoding the Semiotic Empire of Hollywood: James Bond as a Case Study 12:15 pm-2:15 pm—Lunch (Senior Common Room, pre-registration required) Luncheon speakers King-Kok Cheung (Fulbright) Professor Wong Siu-lun (CAS) Richard Stites (US Consulate) Glenn Shive (Hong Kong America Center) 2:15-3:45 pm—Panel 6 Topic: Hybrid Genres and Transnational Contexts Chair: Meaghan Morris (Lingnan) Anna Marie Bautista (HKU), 'She's an American Girl': Representations of Gender and Space in Sofia Coppola's in THE VIRGIN SUICIDES and LOST IN TRANSLATION Bliss Cua Lim (University of California, Irvine), Generic Ghosts: Hong Kong Horror and Transnational Generic Exchange Eric Yu (National Chiao Tung University), Hong Kong Vampire Film: The Making of a Hybrid Genre Tan See Kam (U of Macau), From South Pacific to Shanghai Blues: No film is an island. 3:45-5:30—Dinner on your own and travel to Videotage. 5:30-6:30—Nomadic Vision Hector Rodriguez and Mike Wong (City University of Hong Kong) Title: Nomadic Vision: Disorientation, Proceduralism, and the New Respondent: Steve Fore (City University of Hong Kong) 6:30-8—City University of Hong Kong Student Screening 2 Introduction by Professor Nancy Tong (City University of Hong Kong) Screening: THE WEIGHT OF YEARS, by Sunny Ng (City U MFA student) 35 minutes. DV. Chinese with English subtitles. GRANDMA'S DUMPLINGS, by MOK Siu Bun (City U BA student) 30 minutes. DV. Chinese with English subtitles. 8—9:30—Hong Kong/America Alternatives—Videotage Highlights Introduction by Ellen Pau, Fion Ng, and May Fung MCDONALD'S SUPER FAN--2:30 AND COUNTING...12 FOR SOME REASON 5:30 HERE'S LOOKING AT YOU KID 5:26 TV GAMES OF THE YEAR 5:30 SONG OF THE GODDESS 6:30 GU NUI GEI 3 9:30-11 pm—EXXXperimental Asia Presentations by Katrien Jacobs (Emerson College), Isaac Leung (School of the Art Institute of Chicago), Dr. Ng Man Lun (Psychology, HKU) Saturday, April 3-- University of Hong Kong (Council Chamber, 8/F. Meng Wah Complex) 9-10:45 a.m. Panel 7 Topic: Traveling Cinemas Chair: Ramona Curry (Fulbright) Presenters: Wong Hing-Yuk, Cindy (CUNY—College of Staten Island), Another Gaze: Hong Kong Films in International Festivals Laikwan Pang (Chinese U), Who Is Copying Whom? From KILL BILL to Transcultural Cinematic Appropriations Charles Leary (NYU), The Shadow of an Airplane over Southeast Asia: Worldly Hong Kong Cinema Respondent: Roger Garcia (Modern Films) 10:45-11 am—Break. 11-noon Panel 8 Topic: HO YUK: LET’S LOVE HONG KONG Denise Tse Shang Tang (Hong Kong Polytechnic University), Urban Intimacies in Yau Ching's HO YUK: LET'S LOVE HONG KONG Olivia Khoo, The Ground beneath Her Feet: Fault Lines of Nation and Sensation in Yau Ching’s HO YUK: LET’S LOVE HONG KONG Noon -1pm—Brown Bag Lunch—tea provided, bring your own food-- Workshop 1 Topic: THE SOONG SISTERS Chair: Kit-Ching Chan (History, HKU) Participants: Staci Ford (History/American Studies, HKU), Priscilla Roberts (History, HKU), Tom Stanley (History, HKU), King-Kok Cheung (Fulbright, UCLA) 1 -3 pm—Panel 9 Topic: Fruit Chan Chair: Esther Cheung (Comp Lit, HKU) Presenters: Esther Cheung (HKU), Do We Hear the City?: The Ghostly Voices in Fruit Chan’s MADE IN HONG KONG Siu Heng (Comp Lit, HKU), Home for Border-Crossers in Hong Kong in Fruit Chan’s LITTLE CHEUNG and DURIAN DURIAN Wesley Siu Hang Tang (Comp Lit, HKU), response to Esther Cheung and Siu Heng Wendy Gan (English, HKU), DURIAN DURIAN and the Contiguities of Identity: Rootless in Hong Kong and China Albert Lin Chieng-ting (National Chiao Tung University), Home(s), Identities and Female Roles: DURIAN DURIAN Feng Pin-Chia (National Chiao Tung University), Reimagining the Femme Fatale: Gender and Nation in Fruit Chen’s HONG KONG HOLLYWOOD (Afternoon break during panel, when appropriate.) 3-4:30 pm Panel 10 Panel: Transnational Flows Chair: Joelle Collier (Santa Fe) Panelists: Adam Knee (Ohio University), Thailand in the Hong Kong Cinematic Imagination Michael Walsh (Flinders University), Hong Kong Goes International: The Case of Golden Harvest Stephanie Hemelryk Donald (University of Technology, Sydney) and John Gammack (Griffith), Images of Cities - A Psychological Method for Mapping Conceptual Understandings Hyung-sook Lee (USC), So Close: Hong Kong Cinema, a Familiar Cinema 4:30-6:30 Panel 11 Topic: Charting Transnational Histories Chair: Thomas Luk (Chinese U) Participants: Thomas Luk (Chinese U), The Othering of Hong Kong: Ideological and Aesthetic Function in Edward Dmytryk's SOLDIER OF FORTUNE (1955) Stephanie DeBoer (Fulbright), Co-producing Films In and Against the Global Paradigm: Location, Technologies and TOKYO, HONG KONG, HAWAII (1963) David Newman, The trade of Hollywood movies into the Greater China region during the 1920’s and early 1930’s Karsten Krueger (Zhong Shan University), The Other of Film - The Chinese Historical Ethnographic Film Series (1957-1966) Kathryn Millard (Macquerie U), Chaplin’s Tramp: Reflections in Hong Kong Cinema Amanda Hsu (Comp Lit, HKU), Reading the Cultural Identity of Hong Kong in the Early 50s from THE KID 6:30-7:30 Dinner break (on your own) 7:30 THE MISTRESS (HKU— Rm. K223 Knowles Building) Crystal Kwok introduces film Screening of THE MISTRESS (DVD) Response by Patricia Erens (School of the Art Institute of Chicago) -- THE MISTRESS and Female Sexuality Q and A with Ms. Kwok and Dr. Erens Sunday, April 4— University of Hong Kong (Council Chamber, 8/F. Meng Wah Complex) 9-11 am—Hong Kong Baptist University screening Introduction: Zhang Wei Min (Department of Cinema and Television) with filmmakers Lai Yan Chi, Yung Ka Lok, and Sham Chung Yin Films (DVD-R PAL) by: Chan Tai Lee, XI SHI 13 min Lee Wai Yan, THE (HISTORY OF) HIGH HEELS 16 min Sham Chung Yin, KETCH UP DRESS 7 min Yung Ka Lok, MECHANISM 4:30 min Lai Tan Chi, TEACHER BANKY 10 min Kambel Chung, DON’T CRY ON 5:30 min 11 -1 pm—Tammy Cheung Screening of JULY Respondent: King-Kok Cheung (UCLA) 1-2 pm—Lana Lin (Fulbright) Respondent: Anna Marie Bautista (HKU) Screening: NO POWER TO PUSH UP THE SKY (23 minute video, 2001) TAIWAN VIDEO CLUB (14 minute video, 1999) (NTSC mini-DV) 2-3:30 pm Ming-Yuen S. Ma (Pitzer College) Respondent: John Erni (City University of Hong Kong) Screening: MYTH(S) OF CREATION 17 min. MOTHER/LAND 25 min. MOVEMENTS EAST-WEST 17 min. 3:30-5 pm—Roger Garcia (Modern Films) Respondents: John Woo (WooArt) and May Fung (Hong Kong Institute of Contemporary Culture) Screening: Modern Films (Roger Garcia)'s Screenings Experimental Hong Kong films from the 1980s. Screening (subject to change): RHYTHM (1980, Jim Shum) - 7 minutes SEEING (1985, Comyn Mo) - 12 minutes SURFSIDE (1984, Jim Shum) - 17 minutes SKETCHES (1987, Raymond Red) - 10 minutes 5-7 pm--Dinner on your own and travel to Hong Kong Film Archive. Screenings at the Hong Kong Film Archive 7 pm-9 pm--Evans Chan Welcome from Law Kar and other representatives of the HK Film Archive Introduction of Evans Chan by William Cheung (Hong Kong Polytechnic) Screening: SORCERESS OF THE NEW PIANO* 9-11 pm Yau Ching Introduction by Denise Tse Shang Tang and Olivia Khoo Screening: HO YUK: LET’S LOVE HONG KONG (35 mm, 87 min)** Monday, April 5—University of Macau (STDM Auditorium) 11:30-12:30-- Kevin Ke Screening: THE OFFICIAL ACCOUNT 12:30 pm-2—Albert Chu Screening: Video Art from Macau WON TON NOODLES,…….I LOVE IT! 12 min. 2003 Director: Binaca Lei DREAM TOWN 5min 2002 Director: Teresa Lam VEGETABLE MARKETPLACE 1999 8min 54sec. 1999 Director: Johnny Wong AILEURS 3min 2000 Director: Alice Kok TUNING 10min 2003 Director: Chan Ka Keong THE LOST CITY 3min 1999 Director: Vincent Hui GOOD BYE, KWOK WOON 13min 2003 Director: Albert Chu 2-4 pm—Panel 12— From Macau to the World, with stopovers in Hong Kong: Filmmakers on the move Chair: Gina Marchetti (Fulbright) Presentations: Tony Mitchell, Hong-Kong-Australian Imaginaries: Hei-fen in Two Australian Films by Clara Law William Cheung (Hong Kong Polytechnic), Love(s) and Image(s) of Hong Kong in Evans Chan's Movies Screening: ADEUS MACAU Respondents: Evans Chan, Mike Ingham (Lingnan), Glenn Timmermanns (U of Macau) 4-4:05—Lucy Kwok, Teresa, and Isabel (U of Macau) Screening: MACVOLUTION (2:30) 4:05-4:30—Tea break Screening: UMAC FOCUS (foyer of the S.T.D.M. Auditorium) 4:30-6 pm—Workshop 2—KILL BILL roundtable Chair: Mao Sihui (Macao Polytechnic Institute) Presentation: Peter Hitchcock (CUNY), Niche Cinema; or, Kill Bill with Shaolin Soccer Participants: Lynda Chapple (U. Macau), Demi Tong (U. Macau), Tan See Kam (U. Macau), Audrey Wells (Illinois Math and Science Academy in Aurora, Illinois), and Peter Hitchcock (CUNY) 6-7:30—Kevin Ke (co-directed with Kalli Paakspuu) Screening: WHEN EAST MEETS EAST (53 min) 7:30-10 pm—Closing reception and dinner *SORCERESS OF THE NEW PIANO is also scheduled to screen at the HKIFF on April 18 (10:30 am, HK Science Museum Lecture Hall) and April 20 (9:30 pm, HK Arts Centre agnes b. 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