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.
Peng Tao: Little Moth (Xue Chan)
Part of the Jack H. Skirball Screening Series - New Chinese Cinema: The Unofficial Stories of Tang Tang, Fourth Child, Little Moth and Others
When:
October 20, 2007 7:30pm to 11:00pm
Where
China, 2007
DigiBeta, Mandarin w/ English s/t, 99 min.
US Premiere
Bought for 1,000 yuan, 11-year old Xiao Ezi (“Little Moth”) can’t walk, but her new “parents,” Luo Jiang and his wife Guihua, have a use for her, as they’re trying their luck at a new trade: begging in the streets. First-time director Peng Tao extracts masterful performances from his non-professional actors, and, for a haunting moment, we share the gaze of a little girl staring at the off-screen void.
Followed by Lu Yue: Thirteen Princess Trees (Shisanke Paotong)
China, 2006
35mm, Mandarin w/ English s/t, 98 min.
US Premiere
This bracing look at a year in the lives of a group of high-school delinquents refreshingly features a teenage girl at the center. Feng has trouble at home, and runs with the tough crowd at school. When a new boy transfers from Lhasa, he seems at first to be a roughneck, but the film turns ever so delicately on Feng’s shift in perspective and sexual interest. Director Lu Yue (Mr. Zhao) is also an accomplished cinematographer, best-known for his work with Zhang Yimou on Shanghai Triad.
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