Sinophone Filmmaking Sinophone Filmmaking: 建党伟业 (Beginning of a Great Revival / The Founding of a Party, 2011), 140 mins.
- Date in the past
- Wednesday, 19. November 2025, 17:15 - 20:00
- CATS Auditorium (010.01.05), Voßstraße 2, 69115 Heidelberg
- Barbara Mittler
- Yi-ching Cheng
- Xiaojie Chang
Directed by Huang Jianxin et. al., this film shows how China, marked by political disunity embarks on a new rode lead by a handful of individuals, including Mao Zedong, Li Dazhao and Zhou Enlai, who, following the 1911 Revolution, envision a unified nation, and found a Party.
Address
CATS Auditorium (010.01.05)
Voßstraße 2
69115 HeidelbergEvent Type
Film Screening
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All Dates of the Event 'Sinophone Filmmaking: Utopia—Dystopia—Heterotopia: Lifeworlds on two sides of the Taiwan Straits—Cinematic narratives'
In a cooperation between the Taiwan Studies Program, the Worldmaking Project and the Confucius Institute, we are offering a series of films this semester from Taiwan, and the People’s Republic of China, depicting 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: we unravel grandiose political narratives of revolution and revival, between dystopia and utopia.
—described as reflections of the everyday, on the other side of the Taiwan Straits: we are given glimpses of “cotidian lives” among the petty, the poor, the marginalized, uncovering their function as heterotopia.
As these films depict multiple “worlds within worlds”, from the point of view of those above, those below and those in between—from gangster boss, to ardent believer, from the young boy playing truant, to an old housewife, dressed to kill, they draw our attention to different types of subjectivities, vulnerabilities, desires and aspirations as effects of everchanging biopolitics in the sinophone world.
