Film School for Art Educators

08.25, 5:30pm — 08.28, 8:30pm
Nam-Seoul Living Arts Museum, Classroom 1 (map)

The Village Workshop Week 3

Chien-Hung Huang

Chien-Hung Huang is?Associate Professor at the Graduate Institute of Interdisciplinary Art, National Kaohsiung Normal University. Huang is also a film critic and a critic of contemporary art and the spectacle. Since 2007, he has been also working as a curator.

Workshop Schedule
5:30PM - 8:30PM, August 25, 26, 27, 28

This class will be a 'film school' for Art Instructors who would like to provide an experience on 'how to see' through film to their students. The class will see how instructors can make students talk about the many different perspectives in the film, and how to make them try to understand what the director aims to convey. As a matter of fact, it is why we want them to see it, not seeking for the ideology of it.

Day 1. Introduction of movie A City of Sadness ? its background and specific characteristic of production and aesthetics, and the director
Day 2. Screening
Day 3. Visual analysis on the scenes and sequences of the movie
Day 4. Reproduce the sequence with drawing or camera device

A City of Sadness, directed by Hou Hsiao-Hsien, tells the story of Lin family’s experience during the dynamic times between the liberation from Japan’s colonial rule in 1945 and the Kuomintang government’s regime in 1949 in Taiwan. It depicts the February 28 incident, disputes between the natives and the immigrants, the indignation and tragedy of Taiwanese and their homesickness through Wen-heung and Wen-ching, the first and fourth child of Lin family.