Sinophone Filmmaking Sinophone Filmmaking: ReadyMade (2009)
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- Wednesday, 14. January 2026, 18:00 - 20:00
- 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“.
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Mao Zedong died in 1976, but his impersonators are alive and well. 现成品 (ReadyMade (2009, 78 mins.)), directed by Zhang Bingjian, documents the lives of two people who resemble Mao and assume Mao roles. Peng Tian is a villager from Mao’s home province of Hunan who walks into the Beijing Film Academy one day in full Mao dress to study film acting. Chen Yan is a housewife from Sichuan province, whose mother realized she looked like Mao.
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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.