This year’s Cinema Pacific Festival Fellow Bérénice Reynaud will deliver an illustrated lecture on how independent Chinese cinema is addressing an overwhelming phenomenon currently taking place in China — the production of ruins as part of planned urban renewal. She will also introduce an exciting new narrative feature from China titled The Love Songs of Tiedan, a larkish and erotic tribute to the er ren tai form of bawdy folk singing practiced for centuries in director Jie Hao’s home in the northwestern mountainous region of China. Reynaud’s visit is supported by the UO Confucius Institute and the Center for Asian and Pacific Studies.

Bérénice Reynaud is the author of Nouvelles Chines, nouveaux cinémas (Paris, 1999) and Hou Hsiao-hsien’s A City of Sadness (London, 2002).  She has written extensively on Chinese cinema and video, US independent/experimental cinema, queer cinema and cinema by women for Sight & Sound (UK), Film Comment (USA), Cinema Scope (Canada), Senses of Cinema (Australia), Cahiers du cinéma, Le Monde diplomatique, Libération (France), Meteor, Springerin (Austria), and Nosferatu (Spain), among others. A Delegate for the San Sebastian International Film Festival (Spain) since 1993, she has also curated film/video series for the Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume (Paris), the Museum of Modern Art (New York), and the UCLA Film & Television Archive (Los Angeles), and is Co-Curator for the film series at the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater (Los Angeles). Reynaud teaches at the California Institute of the Arts.

“Ruins in Recent Independent Chinese Cinema”:
April 18 at 2 p.m., Global Scholars Hall 123

The Love Songs of Tiedan:
April 18 at 6:30 p.m., Bijou