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Taiwan Cinema Yesterday & Today February 26 – 28, 2010 Schedule Friday, February 26 Saturday, February 27 Sunday, February 28 5:00 – 6:00 Thomas Fisher 10:00 – 11:50 Innis Town Hall 2:00 – 4:00 Innis Town Hall Rare Book Orz Boyz INTRODUCTION Library Directed By Yang Ya-Che » Mr. Colin Geddes Vip Reception 2008 | 110 Min. Toronto International Film By Invitation Only Festival and Ultra 8 Pictures 11:50 – 1:00 Dark Night 6:30 Innis Town Hall Break Directed by Fred Tan Opening Night Welcome 1986 | 115 min. 1:00 – 3:40 Innis Town Hall » Professor Joseph Wong City Of Sadness Director, Asian Institute, 4:00 – 5:00 Directed By Hou Hsio-Hsien University of Toronto Break 1989 | 160 Min. » Senator Vivienne Poy 5:00 – 6:45 Innis Town Hall Senate of Canada; Chancellor 3:40 – 4:30 Innis Town Hall Emerita, University of Toronto INTRODUCTION Lecture » Mr. Kuo-jan Wang » Mr. Peter Kuplowsky Hou Hsiao-hsien and City of Director General, Taipei Toronto After Dark Sadness as Taiwan’s Cultural Economic and Cultural Offi ce Film Festival Ambassadors in Toronto Growing Up » Professor James Udden » Professor Charlie Keil Directed by Chen Kun-Hou Film Studies, Gettysburg Director, Cinema Studies 1983 | 100 min. College in Pennsylvania Institute, University of Toronto 7:00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS 4:30 – 5:00 Closing Night Bentu: Taiwan Cinema’s Break Sentiments and Marketplace particpants Dinner » Professor Emilie Yueh-Yu Yeh 5:00 – 7:00 Innis Town Hall By Invitation Only Department of Cinema- Symposium Television and Director, David Contemporary Taiwan Cinema C. Lam Institute for East-West » Professor Lee Carruthers Studies, Hong Kong Baptist Cinema and Media Studies, University University of Calgary INTRODUCTION » Mr. Shelly Kraicer » Mr. Shelly Kraicer Curator, fi lm programmer, Curator, fi lm programmer, and freelance fi lm critic; and freelance fi lm critic; Beijing based Beijing based » Professor Bart Testa gala screening Cinema Studies Institute, Tears University of Toronto Directed By Cheng Wen-Tang 7:00 – 8:00 2009 | 111 Min. Break 9:00 – 12:00 Innis Café 8:00 – 9:45 Innis Town Hall Gala Party Parking Director Chung Mung-Hong 2008 | 106 Min. I am delighted to welcome you to Taiwan Cinema Yesterday and Today. This is the Asian Institute’s third international fi lm conference, and we anticipate it will be as successful as our earlier renditions. The core concept of the Asian Institute fi lm conference is to combine critical scholarly discussion about world cinema with fi lm screenings. In this way, Taiwan Cinema Yesterday and Today captures both the experiential excitement of traditional fi lm festivals and the intellectual creativity of academic conferences. This formula has worked wonderfully thus far, and we are thrilled this year to highlight one of Asia’s most dynamic hotbeds for fi lm: Taiwan. Quite unlike Hong Kong fi lm’s popular appeal or the global reach that has been achieved more recently by Chinese cinema, Taiwanese fi lm is noted primarily for its artistic creativity, much more than for its Welcome to commercial returns. Even though several Taiwanese fi lmmakers have gone on to gain great mainstream prominence in the West, Taiwan Taiwan Cinema cinema has by and large been the focus more of art-houses, Cinema- theques, fi lm buff s and university lecture halls. The story of Taiwan Yesterday fi lm thus remains relatively untold, even though its artistic creativity and Today has become critically celebrated around the world through festivals such as Berlin and Venice. Our fi lm conference aims to introduce Taiwanese cinema to a larger audience, and in so doing illuminate Taiwan’s very dynamic, progressive and transforming society. The University, in my mind, is precisely THE place for this sort of event. And the Asian Institute is at the forefront of bringing what the university does best – academic programming – closer to the community, closer to the many folks whose lives are depicted, contested and dissected in fi lm and by fi lm scholars. Indeed, the community’s support of our fi lm-related initiatives over the past Asian Institute few years has been overwhelming, and it has propelled us to think at the University ever more creatively about, and to even be more connected to, Asia. of Toronto The Asian Institute has played a modest leadership role in putting this Munk Centre conference together. Over the past year, the Asian Institute has collabo- for International Studies rated closely with the Taiwan Economic and Cultural Offi ce in Toronto, 1 Devonshire Place, the Reel Asian International Film Festival, the University of Toronto’s Room 227n Cinema Studies Institute and the Department of East Asian Studies as Toronto, on well as several programmers and scholars from around the world. Many Canada thanks to all of you. In particular I would like to thank Professor Emilie m5s 3k7 Yueh-Yu Yeh, who has come from Asia to be a part of this conference. t 416 946 8996 I would like to extend my appreciation to Colin Geddes, Peter Kuplowsky f 416 946 8838 and especially Bart Testa for their visionary leadership and program- e [email protected] ming expertise. And last, I would like to thank Eileen Lam of the Asian url www.utoronto.ca/ai Institute for her tireless eff orts in coordinating this international event. Sincerely, Joseph Wong Director, Asian Institute Canada Research Chair, Political Science 3 taiwan cinema: yesterday & today | 2010 Co-Presenters Asian Institute at the University of Toronto Taipei Economic and Cultural Offi ce in Toronto University of Toronto Sponsors Dr. David Chu Community Network in Asia Pacifi c Studies Cinema Studies Institute School of Global Aff airs at the Munk Centre for International Studies Cinema Studies Student Union (CINSSU) University of Toronto Libraries Community Sponsors Sponsors Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival Toronto After Dark Film Festival Corporate Sponsors Holiday Inn Bloor-Yorkville Graphic Design Donderdag Printing Welter Studios Catering Koo & Co In the Kitchen with Dinah Duffl et Pastries Photographer Leib Kopman 4 Tickets Prices All individual tickets $5 except as follows: Festival pass $25 Opening night fi lm screening and party $10 party only $10 Orz Boyz fi lm Free for Kids when accompanied by adult with valid ticket Saturday lecture & symposium Free Tickets for ALL screenings including opening night can be purchased 30 minutes before start time at venue box offi ce. Advance Ticketing On-line www.utoronto.ca/ai By Phone (416) 946 - 8996 Venues avenue rd avenue ➊ innis town hall bloor bloor Innis College at the University of Toronto devonshire pl devonshire 2 Sussex Street at St. George (south of Bloor) ➊ charles sussex ave innis café Innis College at the University of Toronto ➋ hoskin ave 2 Sussex Street at St. George (south of Bloor) spadina ave spadina st huron st st george cr w park queen’s cr e park queen’s st bay yonge ➋ thomas fisher rare book library wellesley University of Toronto Libraries 120 St. George Street ttc subway stations college college 5 taiwan cinema: yesterday & today | 2010 Co-presenters The Asian Institute Taipei Economic The Asian Institute is home to about 100 scholarly and Cultural Offi ce affi liates, including 40 or so core faculty members, in Toronto researching and teaching on Asia. Located in the Munk Centre for International Studies at the Established in 1993, Taipei Economic and Cultural University of Toronto, the Asian Institute provides Offi ce in Toronto (TECO-Toronto) represents the an inter-disciplinary home to both faculty and interests of Republic of China (Taiwan) and its students interested in Asia. Dedicated to one of people. TECO-Toronto aims to promote bilateral trade, the most dynamic regions in the world, the Asian investment, cultural exchange and cooperation, Institute facilitates cutting-edge research, public and to advance understanding between Taiwan and forums, conferences, and fi rst-rate teaching. Canada. Through the David Chu Program in Asia-Pacifi c Studies, the Asian Institute runs both an Located in downtown Toronto (151 Yonge Street), undergraduate and M.A. program. Our colleagues TECO-Toronto provides overseas Taiwanese and non- collectively cover the entire Asia region, bridging Taiwanese with services such as travel documents work on South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Northeast and visa issuance and document authentication/ Asia. A recipient of a University Academic Initiative legalization. In addition, the offi ce also delivers Fund grant, the Asian Institute looks to build deeper emergency assistance to overseas Taiwanese in need. linkages among faculty and students, and between The jurisdiction of TECO-Toronto extends to the the university and off -campus communities. following Canadian provinces: Ontario, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Manitoba. TECO offi ces in Toronto also include the Information Division, which serves as media liaison, providing up to date information about Taiwan, and the Culture Center (located in Scarborough), which provides services to overseas Taiwanese. 6 In the 1980s, the New Cinema thrust Taiwan’s fi lmmakers into the international limelight alongside Fifth Generation auteurs and Hong Kong’s New Wave directors. The Taiwanese cinema made its impact with a select group, Edward Yang, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Ang Lee and Tsai Ming-Liang. Yang’s Yi Yi has become a modern classic. Over twenty years, Hou has achieved canonical status as a master of narrative style. Tsai radicalized the rigorous inclinations of the New Cinema. Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon pronounced the era of high-stakes transnational fi lmmaking had arrived. Despite this recognition, the New Cinema ended ambiguously. It Introduction launched these major fi gures but their success came in the form of foreign fi nancial and critical sustenance. The revival of the Taiwanese From the fi lm industry itself never followed and it lingered in crisis.