Sinophone Filmmaking Sinophone Filmmaking: 少年吔，安啦！(Dust of Angels! 1992) 106 mins.
- Wednesday, 17. December 2025, 18:00 - 20:00
- CATS Auditorium (010.01.05), Voßstraße 2, 69115 Heidelberg
- Barbara Mittler
- Yi-ching Cheng
- Xiaojie Chang
Directed by Hsu Hsiao-ming 徐小明 and produced by Hou Hsiao-hsien 侯孝賢 the film is a landmark Taiwanese gangster film, it captures the restlessness of youth against the backdrop of Taiwan’s rapid modernization and the growing divide between rural and urban life.
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.
