When you see mountain, it is mountain
When you see ocean, it is oceanWhen you see mountain, it is not mountain
When you see ocean, it is not oceanWhen you see mountain, it is mountain again
When you see ocean, it is ocean again~ ~ ~
Anita Chang recently completed a feature documentary. Click on Joyful Life to learn more!
Please join me and my students for the premiere screening of their graduation digital film, Ancestor Says, on Thursday June 5th, 6:30pm at the Indigenous Building A137, National Dong Hwa University. Click here for more info!
The 4th Annual Iron Horse Film Festival continues its second weekend of exhibitions from June 7-8th. I will be co-presenting first nations filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin’s best known award-winning documentary, Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance on Saturday, June 7th, 10:00am-12:30pm at the Hualien Creative Cultural Park. Visit ironhorse.coolloud.org for more details.
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………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….In January, UC Irvine Film and Video Center presented 62 Years and 6500 Miles Between, as part of its Transnational Documentary Series. Check www.filmandvideocenter.com for more details.
She Wants to Talk to You screened at the National Museum of Women in the Arts’ Festival of Film and Media Arts at the NMWA Theater in Washington, D.C. in September.Earlier this summer, Kearny Street Workshop and the Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center presented In a heartbeat: best of APAture, featuring an excerpt from 62 Years and 6500 Miles Between.
In December 2006, Anita Chang and collaborating artist, Steve Fujimura, completed a multimedia installation entitled ETHNICITY, at the Creative Culture Park of Hualien, Taiwan.
Through black and white photographic portraits and a projected video loop, this multimedia installation situated in an old wine factory built during the Japanese occupation asks viewers to contemplate varied notions of ethnicity.
For more information, visit http://2006hweilan.blogspot.com/
Lecturer, “Did the Subaltern Speak?: The Making of Joyful Life,” Graduate Institute for Taiwanese Ethno-Development, National Dong Hwa University, Hualien, Taiwan, October 26, 2006
62 Years and 6,500 Miles Between screened at the Vancouver Asian Film Festival. For more info, check out www.vaff.org.
An elegy to our small selves screened in Taipei, as part of the Interdisciplinary Experimental Shorts VI: Asian Selections program, of the Women Make Waves Film Festival. For details, visit:www.wmw.com.tw/older/2006
62 Years and 6,500 Miles Between screened at the New York Public Library as part of the 2006 New York Taiwan Women’s Film Festival.
2006 National Tour of 62 Years and 6,500 Miles Between, Taiwan International Ethnographic Film Festival, www.tieff.sinica.edu.tw
2006 National Tour of 62 Years and 6,500 Miles Between, New York Asian American International Film Festival, www.asiancinevision.org/nationaltour.html
Guest Artist, Taiwanese Cultural Festival, San Francisco, May 2006
Curator, “Aftershocks: Experimental Films & Animation from Taiwan,” San Francisco Cinematheque, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, May 2006
Lecturer, Ethnic Studies, Mills College, Oakland, CA, April 2006
Speaker, Taiwanese American Women in Film, North American Taiwanese Women’s Association, Houston, TX, April 2006
Lecturer, Asian American Culture course, San Francisco State University, CA, February 2006
Lecturer, Imagining Place Screening, Roundtable at Bunun Tribal School, Yu-li, Taiwan, November 2005
Lecturer, “Perpetual Outsider,” National Dong Hwa University, Hualien, Taiwan, November 2005
Lecturer, Documentary Production, University of California Santa Cruz, November 2005
Speaker, Taiwanese-American Citizens League, Los Angeles, August 2005
Lecturer, Documentary Journalism, Television School of Communication University of China, Beijing, June 2005
Lecturer, Tainan University of Arts, Taiwan, April 2005
Lecturer, Graduate Film Seminar, San Francisco State University, March 2005