[Anthropgrad] Yunfest Documentary Film Series

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 YUNFEST DOCUMENTARY FILM SERIES
 
 Wednesdays 2.30pm
 29 October – 3 December, 2008
 Venue: Theatrette, Old Canberra House, Lennox Crossing, ANU
 
 Presented by: Yang Kun, Visiting Fellow, Research School of Humanities
 
 This series will feature six films from the Yunnan Multi Culture
 Visual
 Festival, or Yunfest, an independent documentary film festival
 in
 Yunnan, China.
 
 Yunfest serves as a platform for discussion for documentary
 filmmakers,
 cultural anthropologists and community researchers from China
 and
 overseas and promotes the integration of visual media with
 participatory
 visual education and cooperation with local communities.
 
 Yang Kun, one of the founding members of the Yunfest organizing
 group,
 will introduce each film. A discussion will follow each screening.
 
 The series is organized jointly by the Research School of
 Humanities,
 ANU College of Arts & Social Sciences, and the ANU China
 Institute, ANU
 College of Asia & the Pacific.
 
 
 For more information, contact Yang Kun, Ph 6125 9873, or the ANU
 China
 Institute, Ph 6125-2925
 
 A complete list of films to be screened is available here:
 
 http://chinainstitute.anu.edu.au/events/yunfestfilms.php
 
 The first film will be on October 29.
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 2.30pm, Wednesday, October 29
 A Disappearance Foretold
 2008/85 min
 Location: Beijing
 By: Olivier Meys and Zhang Yaxuan
 
 Qianmen is a popular neighborhood in the very heart of Beijing
 just
 south of Tiananmen Square. Due to the 2008 Olympic Games, the
 city
 decided to "rehabilitate" the 500-year-old labyrinth of small
 streets,
 home to more than 80,000 people.
 
 The film follows this long process of transformation from one
 reality to
 another. Sequence after sequence are pieces in the portrait of a
 neighborhood, a story of modern China.
 
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 Nathan Woolley
 Executive Coordinator
 The ANU China Institute
 ANU College of Asia & the Pacific
 Baldessin Precinct Building #110
 The Australian National University
 Canberra ACT 0200 Australia
 
 T: +61 2 6125 2925
 F: +61 2 6125 0745
 E: nathan.woolley at anu.edu.au
 http://chinainstitute.anu.edu.au