Screen/Society--"An Elephant Sitting Still" (Hu Bo, 2018)
Friday, September 20, 2019
7:00 pm
Introduced by Prof. Eileen Cheng-yin Chow (AMES)
Cine-East: East Asian Cinema / New Releases / Global Cinema
Sponsor(s): Program in Arts of the Moving Image (AMI), Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), and Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI)
Cost: Free and Open to the Public
Film Screening:
"An Elephant Sitting Still"
(Hu Bo, 2018, 230 min, China, Mandarin w/ English subtitles, Color, DCP)
Sure to be remembered as a landmark in Chinese cinema, the late Hu Bo's first and final feature film combines long-take heroics with a deeply felt series of interwoven stories concerning characters young and old, joined by a shared longing to escape their suffocating lives.
"One of the greatest recent films...A masterwork." --Richard Brody, The New Yorker
Contact: Hank Okazaki
