4 – 7pm | Thursday 2 March
Stanford House, 65 High Street, Oxford
Ou Ning, Meishi Street (2006)
Film Discussions Series, Part IV
Speaker
Margaret Hillenbrand, Associate Professor of Modern Chinese and Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford University)
Films about cities are both part of modern urban experience and a mode of our reflecting on that experience. Over the last century both cinema and cities have been in flux. What have we learned from films that explore cities? About cities? About films? About tradition? About modernity? About fantasy? About reality? About beauty? About ugliness? About living? About ourselves? About making sense or nonsense of any or all of these? In this series of Film events, the Oxford Forum and Stanford University Centre in Oxford are showing entrancing films about cities, followed by dialogues and discussion.