Double Happiness (2014) is part of the online-film program Hard City, Soft City at NUS Baba House 16.-19. November. The film will be available online for 24h on the 18th of November, followed by an online panel discussion with Jerome Ng on the 19th of November.
Register to watch the film: https://bit.ly/3mDZVnc
Register for the panel discussion: https://www.eventbrite.sg/…/panel-discussion-panel…
This program is part of the APRU University Museum Research Symposium.
Von Brücken und verlorenen Verbindungen, Interview with der chinesischen Filmemacherin Zhu Shengze über ihren Film „A River Runs, Turns, Erases, Replaces“, über ihre Heimatstadt Wuhan und über ihre Inspiration durch den italienischen Schriftsteller Italo Calvino.
Viennale Interview, Ray Filmmagazin 10/2021
Das Gespenst des Kapitalismus, Interview mit dem aus Singapur stammenden Künstlers Ho Rui An anlässlich seiner Ausstellung „The Ends of a Long Boom“ in der Kunsthalle. Ein Gespräch über künstlerische Recherche und Praxis, über den Horrorfilm und über Denkanstöße durch einen Wechsel der historischen Perspektive.
Hale County, This Morning, This Evening, Ramell Ross
A conversation with RaMell Ross on his Oscar-nominated film “Hale County This Morning, This Evening” [March 2021]
A conversation between Ute Meta Bauer and Trinh T. Minh-ha on ‘What about China?’ in Postcolonial Futures, Issue 20.2, A Journal of Transcultural Writings, 2021
What about China?
Trinh T. Minh-ha is Professor of Rhetoric and of Gender & Women’s Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Originally trained as a music composer, her oeuvre as an artist, filmmaker, composer, and postcolonial feminist theorist has charted the constellation of various discourses on gender, colonization, migration, and film poetics. Her latest filmic work-in-progress What About China? (Part I of II, 2020–21), initiated and co-produced by NTU CCA Singapore and was part of the first large-scale solo exhibition of Trinh’s work in Asia.
Taking the notion of “harmony” in China as a site of creative manifestation, What About China? focuses on Chinese culture and identity through its artistic and rural architectural practices, as well as through everyday village activities. In the foreseen demise of China’s peasantry as a class, Trinh is asking again: what exactly is disappearing? Situated in the realm between ancient wisdom, avant-garde, experiment, and popular folk acumen, the film features a multiplicity of voices and narratives embedded in a rhythmic conversation between the still and the moving image. Trinh creates a work that is interrogative and reflexive by nature; one that exposes the naivety of cinematic technology and ideology that claims increasing unmediated access to reality.
Vom Lesen zum Erzählen, ein Interview mit Hou Hsiao-Hsien
Das Österreichische Filmmuseum widmet dem großen taiwanesischen Regisseur Hou Hsiao-Hsien eine Gesamtretrospektive.
Reminiszenzen an das Kino, ein Interview with Tsai Ming-Liang
Die Wiener Festwochen widmen dem herausragenden taiwanesischen Filmemacher und Künstler Tsai Ming-Liang eine Personale.
Ghost Hits Wall will be presented at the DRHA 2021.
Digital Matters. Designing/Performing Agency for the Anthropocene.
International GEECT Conference// Transversal Entanglement // Artistic Research in Film
3-5 June 2021
The freedom of searching the unsearchable in the process of filmmaking as artistic research allows combining different disciplines, such as philosophy, cultural studies, urban studies and film studies to enhance each other’s range of knowledge production. In her ongoing art-based research project, Ella Raidel investigates China’s urban spaces in and through cinema.
The subject investigated is how global capitalism is affecting and haunting the living conditions of our time. In exploring the line between documentary and fiction, Ella Raidel develops a method of performative documentary to create a discursive space in which facts, analyses, commentaries, and references can be woven into one narrative. This research is not only to scrutinize the social reality and to render the social discourse but also to reflect on the convention of filmmaking and its representations. Her new film A PILE OF GHOSTS on Chinese Ghost cities will be released in 2021 and will be the subject of this talk.
OF HAUNTED SPACES – Filmmaking as Artistic Research
Filmmaking as Artistic Research is new territory. The freedom of searching the unsearchable in this process allows combining different disciplines, such as philosophy, cultural study, urban study, and film study to enhance each other’s range of knowledge production in making a film. In her ongoing art-based research projects, Ella Raidel investigates Chinas urban spaces in and through cinema. The subject investigated is how global capitalism is affecting and haunting the living conditions of our time. In exploring the line between documentary and fiction Ella Raidel develops a method of performative documentary to create a discursive space in which facts, analyses, commentaries, and references can be woven into one narrative. This research is not only to scrutinize the social reality and to render the social discourse, but also to reflect on the convention of filmmaking and its representations. Her new film A Pile of Ghosts on Chinese Ghost cities will be released in 2021 and will be the subject of this talk.
Conversations with filmmakers Heidrun Holzfeind, Shireen Seno, and Kimi Takesue for the introduction of the accompanying film program Speaking/Thinking Nearby curated by Marc Gloede and Ella Raidel, NTU CCA Singapore, October 2020
About the film program: Special attention in the accompanying film program has been given to Trinh’s approach of the withdrawal from the usual pattern of the documentary with regard to authenticity, representation, observation, or the creation of sentiments in favour of non-linear storytelling in which the documentary appears as a performance.
A conversation with filmmaker Kimi Takesue.
A conversation with Heidrun Holzfeind
A conversation with filmmaker Shireen Seno
The Asian Cinema Research (ACR Lab) is a network of Asian cinema and media researchers working in Singapore and beyond. The ACR Lab aims to make Singapore the hub of film studies in Southeast Asia and to forge strong alliances with the world’s leading film studies institutions and film festivals.
26 Feb 2021, Fri 04:00 PM – 07:00 PM
27 Feb 2021, Sat 01:30 PM – 07:00 PM
As the concluding programme of the exhibition Trinh T. Minh-ha. Films. (17 October 2020 – 28 February 2021) at NTU CCA Singapore, this four-part conference brings together scholars and practitioners across filmic, anthropological and curatorial disciplines, addressing notions of multivocality, performativity, and truth in fiction, through Trinh’s practice as a filmmaker and theorist.
As Trinh wrote: “There is no such thing as documentary…The words will not ring true.” Both a response and homage to Trinh’s provocation, and at once a close but also an opening, the conference extends multiple threads of inquiry beyond the ontological frames presented in Trinh’s films, to further explore the theoretical parallels and proximities between arrangement and composition, territorialisation and deterritorisalisation, that underscore Trinh’s cinematic works.
Co-organised by Dr Erika Balsom (Canada/United Kingdom), Prof Ute Meta Bauer (Germany/Singapore), Dr Marc Glöde(Germany/Singapore), and Dr Ella Raidel (Austria/Singapore)
Presented in collaboration with King’s College London
Conference online now!
Double Happiness Booklet with DVD!
with texts by Cathérine Hug and Ella Raidel,
44 pages, 190 x140 mm, color illustrations
Documentary Film, 75 Min., AT/CN 2014, color, Dolby Surround
Original Languages and DVD Subtitles:
German, English, Chinese 中文
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„This surreal, exquisitely framed documentary looks at the construction of a near-exact replica of a scenic Austrian town Hallstatt in an undeveloped Chinese tract of land. In a style both entrancing and playful, the film questions the difference between real and imagined, model and reality, raising thought-provoking questions about the nature of authenticity and happiness. Features insightful interviews with urban planners, designers, and the trailblazing Beijing architect Ma Yansong.“
Dieser surreal, exquisit kadrierte Dokumentarfilm sieht sich die Konstruktion einer fast exakten Kopie eines malerischen österreichischen Dorfes Hallstatt in einem unentwickelten Teil Chinas an. In einem hinreißend und spielerischen Stil, befragt der Film die Unterschiede zwischen real und imaginiert, Modell und Realität, stellt zum Nachdenken anregende Fragen über die Natur von Authentizität und Glück. Ausgestattet mit aufschlussreichen Interviews mit Städteplanern, Landschaftsdesignern und dem bahnbrechenden Pekinger Stararchitekten Ma Yansong.
Anthony Kaufman/Chicago International Filmfestival