PAST EVENTS

Film Screening of "The Way We Are" and Meet-the-Artist Session《天水圍的日與夜》電影放映及與藝術家會面
Posted: Apr. 07, 2008

Date: 15 April 2008 (Tuesday)
Time: 5:00 – 7:15 pm (with Meet-the-Artist session)
Venue: Rayson Huang Theatre, HKU
Director: Ann Hui (許鞍華導演)
Cast: Paw Hee-chung (鮑起靜), Chan Lai-wun (陳麗雲), Leung Chun-lung (梁進龍), Idy Chan (陳玉蓮)

*With Chinese and English subtitles

Free admission by ticket or via online registration, all are welcome. Please register at: http://arts.hku.hk/homepage/events/Ann_Hui
Free tickets are now available on a first-come, first-served basis at the Information Counter of the Faculty of Arts Office, HKU from 09:00-13:00, 14:00-17:45 (Monday to Friday)

Synopsis:
Set in Tin Shui Wai, the so-called "City of Sadness," the new film is sympathetic to aging women fending for themselves in an urban society. It also features how young people deal with their everyday existence with resourcefulness. It evokes the poignancy of humanity in a transparent documentary style without sentimentalizing and reducing Tin Shui Wai to a site of mere tragedy, trauma and hysteria. The ordinary people in her film are courageous, compassionate and resilient.

The Meet-the-Artist session will be conducted in Cantonese. English interpretation will be provided upon request.

Enquiries: 2859 8048

The Programme is organized by Visiting Artist Programme (VAP), Faculty of Arts, HKU and supported by See Movie Limited.

Class visits for Film Director Ann Hui
Posted: Mar. 14, 2008

The Faculty of Arts is pleased to annouce that as filmmaker-in-residence of the Visiting Artist Programme (VAP), film director Ann Hui will be visiting the following classes:

[1] Class Visit: CLIT 2088 Critical Approaches to Film Studies
Lecturer: Dr. Gina Marchetti
Date: 19 March 2008 (Wednesday)
Time: 10:40am-12:30pm
Topic: Brecht in Hong Kong (“Ordinary Heroes”)
Venue: KKLG106, HKU
Language: English

Ann Hui will be the guest for the discussion session after Dr. Marchetti’s lecture.

[2] Class Visit: CLIT 7001 Cinema and Popular Culture (M.A. Class)
Lecturers: Dr. Esther Cheung and Dr. Esther Yau
Date: 26 March 2008 (Wednesday)
Time: 6:30-9:30pm
Topic: Time and Memory in Ann Hui’s Cinema (“The Secret”, “Ordinary Heroes”, “Visible Secret”)
Venue: MB237, HKU
Language: English

Ann Hui will share her insights on the film medium’s unique potential to juxtapose different time scales as real time. Flashbacks in Hui’s films, “The Secret”, and “Song of the Exile”, as well as films by Edward Yang, Andrei Tarkovsky, and Joe Wright will be explored to illuminate the subject. Ann Hui's talk will be followed by a conversation with Dr. Esther Yau, and by Q-and-A time with members of the audience.

[3] Class Visit: CLIT 2065 Hong Kong culture: Representations of Identity in Literature and Film
Lecturer: Dr. Esther Cheung
Date: 18 April 2008 (Friday)
Time: 10:40 am-12:30pm
Topic: Identity and autobiographical documentary in Hong Kong cinema (Ann Hui’s “As Time Goes By” and Stanley Kwan’s “Still Love You after all these”).
Venue: MB201, HKU
Language: English

Ann Hui will discuss the making of her autobiographical film which was made around the critical moment of the 1997 handover.

* Details about screening will be announced later.

For enquiries, please contact Ms Luna Ngai of Department of Comparative Literature at lunangai@hku.hk.

Meeting Filmmaker Ann Hui: An Evening with Postmodern Auntie
Posted: Mar. 09, 2008

Faculty of Arts gladly and proudly announces
that film director Ann Hui will be our filmmaker-in-residence
of the Visiting Artist Programme (VAP) from mid February
2008 to April 2008

First public forum: "An Evening with Postmodern Auntie” (與後現代姨媽談戲)
Date: 12 March 2008 (Wednesday), 5:30-7:00pm
Venue: Room 218, the Convocation Room, the Main Building, HKU
Speakers: Director Ann Hui (許鞍華導演), Mr. Shum Long Tin (岑朗天先生) & Mr. Bryan Chang (張偉雄先生) (Hong Kong Film Critics Society) and Dr. Esther M.K. Cheung (張美君博士) (Comparative Literature, HKU)

Film Screening: The Postmodern Life of My Aunt (姨媽的後現代生活)
Date: 11 March 2008 (Tuesday), 6:00-8:00pm
Venue: Room 122, the Main Building, HKU
Director: Ann Hui (許鞍華導演)
Cast: Gaowa Siqin (斯琴高娃), Yun-Fat Chow (周潤發) , Wei Zhao (趙薇)

The forum will be conducted in Cantonese. All are welcome.

For enquiries, please contact Ms Luna Ngai of Department of Comparative Literature at lunangai@hku.hk.