Join us for a free one-day workshop for educators at the Japanese American National Museum, hosted by the USC U.S.-China Institute and the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia. This workshop will include a guided tour of the beloved exhibition Common Ground: The Heart of Community, slated to close permanently in January 2025. Following the tour, learn strategies for engaging students in the primary source artifacts, images, and documents found in JANM’s vast collection and discover classroom-ready resources to support teaching and learning about the Japanese American experience.
Film Screening—“Still Life”
Unknown Pleasures: The Films of Jia Zhangke
When:
September 12, 2008 6:30pm to 12:00am
Where
Preceded by short: “Our Ten Years”
Jia Zhangke (China, 2007, Mandarin with English subtitles, 8 mins.)
(Sanxia haoren). Set to be submerged for the controversial Three Gorges Dam project, the 2000-year-old town of Fengjie proves an appropriate setting for Jia’s look at a China in the process of both construction and deconstruction. The film follows two stories: in one, a miner (Han Sanming) searches for his wife, while in the second a woman (Jia regular Zhao Tao) searches for her husband. Jia uses their wanderings to explore the city and its environments, his camera touchingly lingering on landscapes and people that are about to vanish or be displaced. A not-so-tough youngster who mimics Chow Yun-fat; a small boy with a beautiful voice; shirtless miners and necktied yuppies: all pass through a landscape literally marked “OK for Demolition.” Winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, Still Life is both fiction and documentary; it’s now a historical document, as the old city is indeed under water.
Still Life is repeated on Friday, October 17.
—Jason Sanders
• Written by Jia. Photographed by Yu Likwai. With Han Sanming, Zhao Tao, Li Zhu Bing, Wang Hongwei. (108 mins, In Mandarin and Sichuan dialect with English subtitles, Color, 35mm, From New Yorker Films)
Cost:
Price Varies; Advance Tickets: (510) 642-5249
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