Reflections on Surface Culture in The Mission (1999) [DCCFF 2017]
One of Johnnie To’s breakout films, The Mission plays like an insider’s view on Hong Kong gangster cinema. If John Woo — the filmmaker who was globally...
Preview – Roman Porno Reboot at the 11th Five Flavours Asian Film Festival, November 15-22
The Japanese experimental erotic cinema which flourished in the 70s and 80s is back and ready to provoke again. The legendary Nikkatsu Studio is making...
Call for Papers – Special Issue of Feminist Media Histories on Asian Media
We invite proposals for a special issue of Feminist Media Histories on Asian Media. This issue probes the contested sites of practicing and theorizing feminist...
RTHK: The Mecca of the Hong Kong New Wave [DCCFF 2017]
There is no debating that television was one of the most significant factors regarding the inception of the Hong Kong new wave. During the 1970s...
Preview – Special screening of A Page of Madness, King’s College London, September 24
On Sunday September 24th, the Japanese Avant-garde and Experimental Film Festival (JAEFF) will host a special screening of the Teinosuke Kinugasa legendary A Page of...
Ta’ang (China, 2016)
‘Better not to talk about, it’s so painful,’ says one Ta’ang woman at one point in Wang Bing’s most recent documentary about the Ta’ang ethnic...