Contemplation and Drifting: Exploring Painterliness in Wang Bing’s Works with Three Sisters (2012) as the Focus
PANG Hong 庞鸿 Abstract Wang Bing’s 王兵 documentary works are often known for their coarse visual style; however, a close […]
The Eve of Chinese Documentary: A Conversation with the SWYC Working Group
Interviewee: SHI Jian 时间, CHEN Jue 陈爵, WANG Zijun 王子军, KUANG Yang 邝杨 Interviewer: Ann Lyuwenyu ZHANG 张吕文煜 Note: On January 11th, 2025, through […]
Voice-Over
LEI Lei 雷磊 Abstract In this article, Lei Lei reflects on the creative significance of the “voice over” in moving […]
Acceleration, Excess, Techno-Scavenging, and Moving Image Reclamation
CONG Feng 丛峰 Abstract This article reflects on the conditions of contemporary moving image culture through the intertwined notions of […]
Fragmenting to Recompose: The Pieces of The Past in Breathless Animals (2019)
Désirée MARIANINI Abstract After the 1980s, what Lyotard calls the grand narratives came to an end; progress, history, science, […]
Bad Images as Diasporic Homes: Exploring Media Obsolescence in Chinese Diasporic Filmmaking
Lynette Qiuyang Shen 沈秋阳 Abstract This paper examines how bad images – characterised by poor quality and often produced […]
‘Home Movies and Archives Offer Diverse Narrative Samples for Understanding Our Era’— A Conversation with Director Gu Xue on the FamilyLens Film Archive
Interviewer: Ann Lyuwenyu ZHANG 张吕文煜 Note: On Feburary 17th, 2025, I conducted an interview with director Gu Xue 顾雪regarding FamilyLens […]
The Educational Film Archive in the Sinophone World: Conceptual Migration and the Exploration of a Decentralized Film Preservation Approach
WEI Yizhou 韦怡舟 Abstract This article investigates the concept of the educational film archive by examining its migration from […]
The Ninth CIFA Screening and Research Seminar – The Contested Modernisation: Seeing through A Faux Ancient Blueprint
We are pleased to announce the ninth CIFA Screening and Research Seminar, titled ‘The Contested Modernisation – Seeing through A […]
The Eighth CIFA Screening and Research Seminar: Performativity, Intimacy, and Intergenerational Memory in Women’s Documentary Practices
Date: June 11, 2025 (Wednesday), 1:00 PM – 3:30 PM Venue: Chinese Independent Film Archive (CIFA), Old Library Building 2.23, […]