Date: Wed, 06 May 1998 17:07:32 -0700
From: "Esther C.M. Yau" <yau-AT-oxy.edu>
Subject: Visualizing Eros: Film Series and Symposium


Dear Friends,

I would like to invite you to attend our mini-film series and symposium
entitled: "VISUALIZING EROS:  Asian Cinemas, Asian American Videos, and
Intercultural Flows".  From April 30 to May 21, 1998, selected Asian
films and Asian American videos that address eros and eroticism will be
screened on Thursday evenings, in the Auditorium of the new Humanities
Instructional Building (Room 100) on the campus of the University of
California, Irvine.  On May 21, 1998, a half-day symposium will take
place at UCI, with a keynote speech by Rey Chow (UCI), scholarly
presentations by David James (USC), Miriam Silverberg (UCLA) and Sumita
Chakravarty (New School of Social Research) and video presentations by
Ming Yuen S. Ma and Tran T. Kim-trang.

On April 30, the Visualizing Eros film series opened with Oshima
Nagisa's erotic classic, "In the Realm of the Senses", shown in a
beautiful 35mm print, along with Tran T. Kim-trang's video, "Kore". We
had a young and enthusiastic audience. 

This coming Thursday evening, the Korean erotic film "To You, From Me"
and Hong Kong's "A Chinese Ghost Story" will be shown. The schedule for
upcoming screenings are listed below.  We are offering a niffy
"Visualizing Eros" poster as a souvenir to you when you showed up in our
film series and asked for it.  They are going fast, be sure to get your
own before they are all gone!!
Please pass this message to your friends who may be interested.

Warm Regards,
Esther Yau

SCHEDULE OF VISUALIZING EROS --UPCOMING SCREENINGS AND SYMPOSIUM

Thursday May 7, 7.30pm  Double-bill Night
"To You, From Me" (Jang Sun-woo, 1994) 107 minutes
  The first Korean film to make realistic use of current sexual slangs
and was
  shocking to the Korean public.

"A Chinese Ghost Story" (Ching Siu-tung, 1987) 101 minutes
  Produced by Tsui Hark of <Peking Opera Blues> fame, the film is
unrestrained
  in its imagination.

Thursday May 14, 7.30pm
"Toc Storee" (Ming Yuen S. Ma, 1992) 21 minutes
  Sexuality, desire, identity come together through gay Asian
story-telling.

"Fire" (Deepa Mehta, 1997) 104 minutes
  Indian-Canadian filmmaker Deepa Mehta let forbidden love and desire
explode
in the face of taboos.

Thursday May 21
Closing Night Reception at 7.30pm
Film screening will start at 8pm
"Stand By Your Man" (Cheleenan Svetvilas, 1993) 3 minutes
  A satirical music video of re-edited Hollywood film clips of Asian
female roles.

"Happy Together" (Wong Kar-wai, 1997) 20 minutes
 Director Wong Kar-wai won Best Director with this film at the 1997
Cannes Film
 Festival.  Featuring Leslie Cheung and Tony Leung as two Hong Kong gay
lovers
 in Argentina.

Visualizing Eros Symposium
Thursday May 21, 1998
Place: Humanities Instructional Building, Room 135AB
Time:  1.30pm-6.00pm

1.30-2.30pm  Opening Remarks  -- Rhona J. Berenstein, director, Program
in 
                                 Film Studies, UCI
             Keynote Address:    "Nostalgia of the Avant-Garde: On Wong
Kar-wai's
                                 <Happy Together>"
                                 by Rey Chow, Professor, Department  of
English
                                 and Comparative Literature, UCI

2.45-4.30pm  Opening Remarks  -- Esther C.M. Yau, Chancellor's Visiting
Associate
                                 Professor, Program in Film Studies, UCI

Moderator:  Anne Friedberg    -- Associate Professor, Program in Film
Studies, UCI
Panelists:  Miriam Silverberg -- Associate Professor, Dept. of History,
UCLA
            David James       -- Professor, School of Cinema-TV, USC
                                 "Buddhism and Eroticism in Im
Kwon-taek's 
                                 <Come, Come Upward>".
            Sumita Chakravarty-- Associate Professor of Communications,
New School
                                 of Social Research
                                 "The Erotics of History: Sexuality and
Transgression
                                 in Recent Indian Cinema"
 
Discussants:  UCI Faculty Members
  
5.00-6.00pm  Videomakers' Forum
Moderator:  Rhona J. Berenstein -- Associate Professor and director,
Program in
                                   Film Studies, UCI

Video Artists:  Ming Yuen S. Ma
                Tran T. Kim-trang

Discussants:    Laura Kang, Assistant Professor, Program in Women's
Studies, UCI
                Peter Feng, Visiting Assistant Professor, Program in
Film Studies, UCI
> All screenings are at UCI, 100 Humanities Instructional Building.
> All films are on 35mm prints with English subtitles.
> FREE ADMISSION to the Symposium and Evening Screening of Wong Kar-wai's <HAPPY TOGETHER> on May 21, 1998.
> Tickets for other shows: $4.00 for Students, Staff and Faculty
> General Admission: $6.00
> For parking information: call 949-824-7418
>



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