Dossier Launch, Homage to China, Experimental Short Films

Introduction 

Speaker: Thomas Wiedemann (Ludwig-Maximilians-University)

Thomas Wiedemann, Visual Culture Working Group's Vice-Chair, introduces the 2022 VIC Online Video Session and launches the Dossier 'Technological and Cultural Changes in the Digital Era'. He also makes an announcement about VIC Cine Club and welcomes participants to this year's VIC video sessions. 

Mapping the changed displays and the culture: from hand-painted to digital Bollywood Film Posters

Hitender Sehrawat (Amity University)  

So Long My Son: Record of Memory, Reconstruction of History

Xueyan Cheng (Communication University of Shanxi)

Silk: From China to Venice and to the Silk Valley, Brazil

Short Film: 5 min / Experimental
Nucleum of Research and Audiovisual Production (Tuiuti University of Paraná)
Permission to screen the short film was obtained from Denize Araujo (Universidade Tuiuti do Paraná)

Silk, native of China arrived in Venice, Italy, in 1502. Currently, the Silk Valley, in the northern region of Paraná, is producing a type of silk already recognized in Europe. The handkerchiefs on display are the result of this production, with threads from the Silk Valley and made in Italy.

Hourglass House

Short Film: 21 min / Fiction
Director: Liu Yinghai

The little boy wanted to take an adventure in the desert, but the mother could not leave the family behind. Meanwhile, sand is pouring into the house continuously, covering the family members around him. He realized that this was an irreversible hourglass of time …

Sleep Creek

Short film: 16 min / Fiction
Director: Liu Shubo

An old woman living alone on a scorching afternoon falls back into the past, dreaming of her youth and also dreaming of women who, through the entangled space and time, look at themselves in the mirror of the future. Life is just a dream, waking up in the spinning reality.