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Chinese Independent Film Archive 华语独立影像资料馆 (CIFA) Launch Programme
Date: 25 September – 6 October 2023
Venues: Newcastle University, Newcastle Arts Centre
Funded by the Arts and Humanity Research Council, this event is to launch the Chinese Independent Film Archive (CIFA), located in Newcastle University, which is dedicated to the preservation of and access to Chinese independent film culture. The launch event consists of a large-scale multi-media exhibition involving three Chinese independent filmmakers; a Chinese independent film poster exhibition; a film series of 19 films that will be shown for the first time in the UK (including 8 new films being screened in public for the first time), with post-screening Q&As with 16 filmmakers; a one-day symposium on the exhibition and circulation of Chinese independent cinema; four roundtables; a journal issue launch; and a performance. It involves over 40 invited guests from China, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Norway, Singapore, the Netherlands, UK, and USA, including filmmakers, artists, curators, archivists, critics, and scholars, many of whom have played an important role in the development of Chinese independent cinema.
The launch aims to showcase the outcome of an AHRC-funded research project (2019-2024) about Chinese independent cinema, promote the use of CIFA in teaching and researching China, and engage in the discussion of a range of pressing issues around Chinese independent cinema and film archives. Through two weeks of launch activities, we hope to open a window onto this unique, important, but marginalised film culture, draw the attention of professionals and the general public alike to CIFA, and encourage the use of CIFA’s collections by students and researchers from within and outside Newcastle University.
Launch Poster Exhibition: Chinese Independent Film Posters by Wang Wo
Date: 18 Sept. – 10 Dec. 2023
Venue: Philip Robinson Library, Newcastle University
Launch Exhibition: China Through an Independent Lens
Participating filmmakers: Hu Jie胡杰, Wen Pulin温普林, Zhang Zanbo张赞波
Date: 25 Sept. – 6 Oct. 2023
Venue: Assembly House, Newcastle Arts Centre, 55 Westgate Road
Launch Film Series: Chinese Independent Cinema Today
The screening of 19 films and post-screening Q&As with 16 Chinese indie filmmakers
Opening screening
Date: 7:30pm – 10pm, 25 Sept. 2023
Venue: Tyneside Cinema
All other screenings
Date: 1-10pm, 26, 29, 30 Sept., 1, 2, 3 Oct. 2023
Venue: Black Swan, Newcastle Arts Centre, 67 Westgate Road
Launch Roundtable 1: How to Continue Making Films Independently in China?
Date: 10am-12:30pm, 27 Sept. 2023
Venue: Assembly House, Newcastle Arts Centre, 55 Westgate Road
Launch Roundtable 2: The Spirit and Legacy of Avant-garde Art in China in the 1980s
Date: 2:30-5pm, 27 Sept. 2023
Venue: Assembly House, Newcastle Arts Centre, 55 Westgate Road
Launch Roundtable 3: CIFA’s Roles in Teaching and Researching China in Higher Education and Secondary Schools
Date: 10am-12pm, 29 Sept. 2023
Venue: Armstrong Building Keeton Lomas Lecture Theatre, Newcastle University
Launch Roundtable 4: Film Archives: Building Collections, Preservation, and Access in the Digital Era
Date: 10am-12pm, 30 Sept. 2023
Venue: Old Library Building interpreting suite, Newcastle University
Launch Symposium: The Exhibition and Circulation of Chinese Independent Films
Date: 9:30am – 5:30pm, 28 September 2023
Venue: Boiler House, Newcastle University
Chinese Independent Cinema Observer Issue 6 Launch: Censorship and Chinese Independent Cinema
Date: 10-11:30am, 1 Oct. 2023
Venue: Assembly House, Newcastle Arts Centre, 55 Westgate Road
