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—“Xiao Shan Going Home”
Unknown Pleasures: The Films of Jia Zhangke
When:
September 19, 2008 8:30pm to 12:00am
Where
(Xiao Shan hui jia). Jia’s student film from the Beijing Film Academy won the top prize at the Hong Kong Independent Short Film Awards, impressing with a hybrid aesthetic both naturalistic, in its gentle eye for those on the lower rungs of China’s vast urban migration, and experimental, in its buzzing found-sound soundtrack and word/image combinations. Wang Hongwei (the bedraggled star of Xiao Wu) is a soon-to-be-unemployed cook in Beijing; he’s anxious to head home to his rural village for Chinese New Year, but unfortunately none of his old friends—now construction workers, prostitutes, scalpers, and students—want to return with him. Rarely screened anywhere (this is the Bay Area premiere), Xiao Shan Going Home is a revelation.
—Jason Sanders
• Written by Jia. With Wang Hongwei, Jia, Zhu Liqin. (58 mins, In Mandarin with English subtitles, Color, Beta SP, From Hong Kong Arts Centre)
Preceded by short:
In Public (China/South Korea, 2001). Made in preparation for Unknown Pleasures, this observational documentary captures the anonymous residents of that film’s “Anytown, China” setting, the decaying mining city of Datong. (32 mins, In Mandarin with English subtitles, Color, Beta SP, From Sidus FNH)
• (Total running time: 90 mins)
Cost:
Advance Tickets: (510) 642-5249
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