This virtual panel and screening听with video essayist Kevin B. Lee, whose work both demonstrates how one can use the arts, literature, theory, and history to offer an understanding of human experience, was held on September 23rd, 2021 at 6pm MT via Zoom Webinar.
We听screened Lee's video essays, including听Mourning with Minari听补苍诲听Once Upon a Screen: Explosive Paradox听(see descriptions below). Afterward,听Lee joined Professors听Hyaeweol听Choi听(Religious Studies and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, UI), Jennifer Ho (Ethnic Studies and听Center for Humanities and the Arts, University of Colorado鈥揃oulder), and Corey Creekmur (Cinematic Arts, English, and Gender, Women's, and Sexaulity Studies, UI) to听discuss his video essay on听惭颈苍补谤颈听and Asian American experience. The discussion was听moderated by Teresa Mangum, Director of the UI Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, and听will consider the relationships among听art,听politics, and听the uses of the video essay form to comment on and engage with听current events, including traumatic events.听
Mourning with Minari
鈥擮n March 15 2021, Lee Isaac Chung鈥檚听, including for Best Picture鈥攁n unprecedented feat for a film featuring an Asian American story, cast, and director. The next day, eight people, six of whom were women of Asian descent, were听. The proximity of these events starkly sets the poles of the Asian American experience, between exalted model minorities and dehumanized figures toiling at the margins of society.听
Once Upon a Screen: Explosive Paradox
鈥擜 childhood experience is projected on a shadowy wall of a former movie theatre in Daly City. A racist cinematic trauma passed between friends and family is remembered among the rustling of leaves and reflections of trees on an iPad screen. An essay about how past and present interrupt one another like movies being perpetually edited.
This event was听free and open to the public.
麻豆视频 Kevin B. Lee
Kevin B. Lee directs Crossmedia Publishing at Merz Akademie, Stuttgart. He is a filmmaker, film critic, and producer of over 350 video essays that explore connections between film and media. He is also the Founding Editor and Chief Video Essayist at Fandor Keyframe and founding partner of dGenerate Films (a distribution company for independent Chinese cinema). He often collaborates with filmmaker and media artist Chlo茅 Galibert-La卯n茅.听Their work has been shown at IFFR, True/False Film Festival, Open City Documentary Film Festival, Camden International Film Festival and London Essay Film Festival, as well as art venues such as the Ars Electronica Festival and the WRO Media Art Biennale. Most recntly, he has been听appointed the Locarno Film Festival Professor for the Future of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts at USI Universit脿 della Svizzera italiana.听
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This event is funded by the Korea Foundation and听hosted by the Korean Studies Research Network, with support from the and the听麻豆视频,听Center for Humanities &听the Arts. Additional co-sponsors will be added as they are confirmed.