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Sinophone Filmmaking Sinophone Filmmaking: Dust of Angels! (1992)

  • Termin in der Vergangenheit
  • Mittwoch, 17. Dezember 2025, 18:00 - 20:00 Uhr
  • Centre for Asian and Transcultural Studies, CATS-Auditorium (010.01.05), Voßstraße 2, ​​​​​​​69115 Heidelberg
    • Prof. Dr. Barbara Mittler, Universität Heidelberg, Zentrum für Ostasienwissenschaften
    • Yi-ching Cheng
    • Xiaojie Chang

Öffentliche Filmvorführung im Rahmen der Reihe „Sinophone Filmmaking“ am Zenrum für Ostasienwissenschaften der Universität Heidelberg. Thema der Reihe im Wintersemester 2025/2026 ist „Utopia – Dystopia – Heterotopia: Lifeworlds on two sides of the Taiwan Straits – Cinematic narratives“. 

Sinophone Filmmaking

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Directed by Hsu Hsiao-ming 徐小明 and produced by Hou Hsiao-hsien 侯孝賢, 少年吔，安啦！(Dust of Angels! (1992, 106 mins.)) is a landmark Taiwanese gangster film, capturing the restlessness of youth against the backdrop of Taiwan’s rapid modernization and the growing divide between rural and urban life.

Alle Termine der Veranstaltung 'Sinophone Filmmaking: Utopia – Dystopia – Heterotopia'

Lifeworlds on two sides of the Taiwan Straits – Cinematic narratives

The Sinophone Filmmaking series, organized by Heidelberg University's Centre for East Asian Studies, includes films from Taiwan and the People’s Republic of China, depicting some of the complex and conflicted Sinophone realities and illustrating different ways of worldmaking as prescribed in the form of “main melodies” by the powers that be, on one side of the Taiwan Straits, and as described as reflections of the everyday, on the other side of the Taiwan Straits. As these films depict multiple “worlds within worlds”, from the point of view of those above, those below and those in between, they draw attention to different types of subjectivities, vulnerabilities, desires and aspirations as effects of everchanging biopolitics in the sinophone world.

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