From uwcinema at u.washington.edu Wed Nov 1 10:33:02 2023 From: uwcinema at u.washington.edu (UW Cinema Studies List) Date: Mon Mar 18 15:03:39 2024 Subject: [UWcinema] Please circulate: [November 7 at 6:30 PM] INVISIBLE NATION (Vanessa Hope, 2023) with Director Q&A (In-Person Only) In-Reply-To: References: <9295d58ce85a585660f6fb131.c7ecf2b37e.20231030230344.76a12cf717.7c8c6af0@mail109.suw131.mcsv.net> Message-ID: From: Ellen Y Chang Dear All, The Taiwan Studies Arts & Culture Program is thrilled to invite you to a special screening of Vanessa Hope's documentary film, Invisible Nation (2023), on Tuesday, November 7, at 6:30 pm, in UW Kane Hall 210. The screening is free to all (RSVP required) and will be followed by a post-screening Q&A session with Director Vanessa Hope. Please see the event details and RSVP information below and on our TicketLeap page: https://uwtaiwanstudies.ticketleap.com/invisible-nation/ We look forward to seeing you there! Best, Ellen ELLEN Y. CHANG she/her Director of Arts & Culture, Taiwan Studies Program eychang@uw.edu / jsis.washington.edu/Taiwan UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON The University of Washington acknowledges the Coast Salish peoples of this land, the land which touches the shared waters of all tribes and bands within the Suquamish, Tulalip and Muckleshoot nations. ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: UW Taiwan Studies > Date: Mon, Oct 30, 2023 at 4:04?PM Subject: [November 7 at 6:30 PM] INVISIBLE NATION (Vanessa Hope, 2023) with Director Q&A (In-Person Only) To: > Free to all! RSVP required. [https://mcusercontent.com/9295d58ce85a585660f6fb131/images/f819d33a-ea11-6810-4ecc-ff45b03afff2.png] [https://mcusercontent.com/9295d58ce85a585660f6fb131/images/881087b6-d92b-abd7-b019-98b3053f2fa6.png] In partnership with the UW East Asia Center, the Taiwanese Association of Greater Seattle, and the Seed Kite Foundation, the UW Taiwan Studies Arts & Culture Program welcomes you to an in-person screening of Invisible Nation (2023) on the UW campus. Director Vanessa Hope is scheduled to attend the post-screening Q&A session. * Time: Tuesday, November 7, 2023, 6:30 PM (doors open at 6:00 PM) * Location: UW Kane Hall 210 (4069 Spokane Ln NE, Seattle, WA 98105) RSVP is required to attend the screening and Q&A session in person. Please visit https://uwtaiwanstudies.ticketleap.com/invisible-nation/ to register. We look forward to seeing you at the screening! [https://mcusercontent.com/9295d58ce85a585660f6fb131/images/ef76464c-015c-3c52-5142-7dda370e1212.jpg] USA | 2023 | 85 min. | Vanessa Hope With unprecedented access to Taiwan?s sitting head of state, director Vanessa Hope?s eye-opening documentary investigates the election and tenure of Tsai Ing-wen, the first female president of Taiwan. * Official Selection ? 2023 Woodstock Film Festival * Official Selection ? 2023 Hamptons International Film Festival * Official Selection ? 2023 Mill Valley Film Festival * Official Selection ? 2023 SIFF DocFest * Official Selection ? 2023 New Hampshire International Film Festival * Official Selection ? 2023 Middleburg Film Festival * Official Selection ? 2023 IDFA Synopsis With unprecedented access to Taiwan?s sitting head of state, director Vanessa Hope investigates the election and tenure of Tsai Ing-wen, the first female president of Taiwan. Thorough, incisive and bristling with tension, Invisible Nation is a living account of Tsai?s tightrope walk as she balances the hopes and dreams of her nation between the colossal geopolitical forces of the U.S. and China. Hope?s restrained observational style captures Tsai at work in her country?s vibrant democracy at home, while seeking full international recognition of Taiwan?s right to exist. At a time when Russia?s invasion of Ukraine has demonstrated the ever-present threat of authoritarian aggression, Invisible Nation brings punctual focus to the struggle of Taiwan as it fights for autonomy and freedom from fear. * Producer: Sylvia Feng, Vanessa Hope, Ted Hope, Cassandra Jabola, Ivan Orlic, Patrick Pfupajena * Cinematographer: Laura Hudock * Editors: Ku A-Ming, Dave Henry, Siuloku O, Justice Yong * Music: Wei-San Hsu * Filmography: All Eyes and Ears (2016) * Language: English, Chinese [https://mcusercontent.com/9295d58ce85a585660f6fb131/video_thumbnails_new/812a3ea9f8e44e6fd0de72d771f9ee1e.png] Exclusive Clip from Invisible Nation (Vanessa Hope, 2023) Vanessa Hope, Director Vanessa Hope is an award-winning producer and director. Vanessa has produced multiple acclaimed films in China, including Berlin International Film Festival selection The Story Of Ermei (Wang Quanan) and Cannes Film Festival selection Tombee De Nuit Sur Shanghai (Chantal Akerman), part of an omnibus of films, The State Of The World. She has also produced her own short films, including China In Three Words, an official selection at DOC NYC. Hope?s additional producing credits include Zeina Durra?s The Imperialists Are Still Alive! and Sarah and Emily Kunstler?s feature documentary, William Kunstler: Disturbing The Universe and the award-winning film, Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America. She served as Executive Producer of Paula James-Martinez?s Born Free. Hope made her directorial debut with the documentary All Eyes and Ears, an exploration of the complex links between the U.S. and China told through the stories of U.S. Ambassador Jon Huntsman, his adopted daughter Gracie Mei, and civil advocate Chen Guangcheng. Hope?s latest film, Invisible Nation, is about the first female president of Taiwan, Tsai Ing-wen, and the story of Taiwan?s geopolitical predicament, with dangerous parallels to Ukraine. Vanessa and her husband, Ted Hope, share a company, Double Hope Films, with many independent fiction and documentary features and series in development. Vanessa is on the advisory board of the Equal Rights Amendment Coalition and the Fund for Women?s Equality. [Facebook] [Twitter] [YouTube] [Instagram] [Email] [Website] Support Us This email was sent to eychang@uw.edu why did I get this? unsubscribe from this list update subscription preferences Taiwan Studies ? 400 Thomson Hall ? Box 353650 ? Seattle, WA 98195-0001 ? USA [Email Marketing Powered by Mailchimp] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From uwcinema at u.washington.edu Tue Nov 14 15:45:18 2023 From: uwcinema at u.washington.edu (UW Cinema Studies List) Date: Mon Mar 18 15:03:39 2024 Subject: [UWcinema] =?utf-8?q?=5BPacific_Northwest_Media_Commons=5D_Upcomi?= =?utf-8?q?ng_Talk=3A_Friday=2C_11/17_=40_3=3A30--Greg_Youmans=3A__Bay_Are?= =?utf-8?q?a_Surrealism=3A_Steve_Arnold=2C_the_Cockettess=2C_and_Salvador_?= =?utf-8?b?RGFsw60=?= In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hello Pacific Northwest Media Commons friends! This coming Friday, November 17th at 3:30pm, we are excited to host the latest in our work-in-progress speaker series--Greg Youmans! Please join us at the following link (you can also link through Facebook). And please help us spread the word for what promises to be an excellent talk! [cid:1CFAB504-F2E9-4307-8937-025D8B877585]\ Bay Area Surrealism: Steve Arnold, the Cockettes, and Salvador Dal? Abstract: The talk explores the influences upon and the impact of the work of artist and filmmaker Steven Arnold, who was a major figure in the queer, artistic, and countercultural milieux of the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Arnold helped launch the midnight movie phenomenon in the U.S. and gave the famous hippie-drag troupe the Cockettes their first stage. As a filmmaker, his biggest success was the 1971 psychedelic art-porn feature Luminous Procuress, which featured the Cockettes, screened at the Cannes Film Festival, and had a two-week run at the Whitney Museum in New York, where he met Salvador Dal? and became his proteg?. Arnold?s influences were eclectic, though surrealism was central to his art practice, philosophy, and way of life almost from childhood. In this presentation, I will use Arnold as an opportunity to trace the history and influence of surrealism on queer art and filmmaking in the Bay Area, and I will attend as well to other key influences on his work, in particular the 1960s films of Jack Smith and Federico Fellini, and the fashion designs and performance art of his frequent collaborator, Kaisik Wong. Bio: Greg Youmans is associate professor of English and film studies at Western Washington University. His essays have appeared in Camera Obscura, Millennium Film Journal, and the Oxford Handbook of Queer Cinema among other publications. His first book was a study of the 1977 documentary Word Is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives (dir. Mariposa Film Group), and he is currently at work on a second book project tentatively entitled ?Something New Under the Sun: Bay Area Queer Filmmaking Across the 1970s.? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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