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Past Events: screening
Columbia University's Weatherhead East Asian Institute presents the film "Beyond Beauty, Taiwan From Above," which documents Taiwan from an aerial perspective.
The Smithsonian's Museum of Asian Art presents a screening of Hou Hsiao-hsien's film "The Puppetmaster". Richard Suchenski, director of the Center for Moving Image Arts at Bard College and editor of Hou Hsiao-hsien, will introduce the screening and do a book signing.
The Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University presents a screening of Hou Hsiao-hsien's film "The Puppetmaster".
The Columbia University Weatherhead East Asian Institute presents a screening of "The Epic of Everest," probably the earliest filmed record of life in Tibet.
Bowers Museum presents The Lost City of Jinsha, the critically acclaimed episode of History Channel Asia's groundbreaking new series on Chinese archaeology, Mysteries of China.
University of California Santa Barbara's Department of East Asian Languages & Cultural Studies presents a screening of "Dust in the Wind," a film about lost love and lost innocence between a young working class couple in Taiwan.
The Smithsonian's Museum of Asian Art presents a screening of Diao Yinan's film "Black Coal, Thin Ice" about an ex-cop who-five years after a botched arrest for a grisly murder-stumbles back onto his old case. Director Yinan casts Fargo-like noir compulsion and doom in the wintry coal-belt of northern China. Here, danger slow burns beneath the icy frost, and whodunit becomes a phenomenological question as perplexing as a show of fireworks in bright daylight
The Duke University Asian Pacific Studies Institute presents a screening of the film "Seven Days in Heaven" directed by Wang Yu-lin and Essay Liu.
The UCLA Asian Languages & Cultures presents Khenpo SoDargye, who was ordained at the Larung Gar Five Sciences Buddhist Academy is nearly 30 years ago. He will speak of the founding and development of Larung Gar and describe the rich and diversified academic programs the Academy provides.
The Smithsonian's Museum of Asian Art presents a screening of Xu Tong's documentary "Cut Out the Eyes" which presents a vibrant portrait of folk and popular culture in lnner Mongolia. Er Housheng is an itinerant performer presenting boisterous, musically infused epic poems recounting his life's travails. A survivor of many hardships (the title provides a hint), he is a folk hero to rural audiences, who respond heartily to his roguish charisma and sung summations of universal human foibles.