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This study analyses the documentary filmmaking of Ai Xiaoming, filmmaker, literature professor, feminist and rights activist, on the issues of the Jiabiangou Rightist Labour Camp and the 2008 Sichuan earthquake. The analyses deploy Foucault’s framework of truth-telling in the three axes of subjectification, namely, knowledge, power and morality. Ai regards documentary filmmaking as a way to challe
Positive ascites cytology is a strong prognostic factor in patients with early-stage ovarian cancer (OvCa). However, limited information is currently available on the impact of positive ascites cytology on patient prognoses under each clinical background. We herein investigated the comprehensive impact of positive ascites cytology on patients with epithelial OvCa and the effectiveness of additiona
Abstract in Chinese本文通过分析 2016年在香港大学举办的“情欲中国：性与女性主体”展映纪录片，以及受邀但因伦理问题未参展的影片，探讨中国独立纪录片电影在处理隐私、性别、暴力、创伤等议题时的女权主义立场性：1）电影人的关怀伦理立场，以及与影片主人公形成（亲密）团结立场；2）影片主人公从坦白和渴求的立场出发，从基于性别的暴力和歧视中重宣自主；3）电影人与影片主人公从不同的立场出发，通过发行控制来降低纪录片对主人公个人生活可能造成的负面影响；4）片中人物与电影人自我转变的演进，因此恢复一度禁止的放映；5）从活跃分子立场出发的政治代言，以及从电影人立场出发的艺术意义上的再现；6）理论与实践之间的紧张关系要求学者、电影人和活跃分子反思性别与知识生产的传统关系，置身于具体处境中进行讨论和落实纪录片伦理。本文认为在制作、展映、评论中国关于女性的纪录片时，有必要采取女权主义的关怀伦理This article analyses a series of ‘Desiring China: Sexuality and Female Subjectivity’ screening and discussion of Chinese independent documentary films at the University of Hong Kong in 2016. It explores a feminist positionality in Chinese independent documentary film to deal with privacy, gender, violence, and trauma: 1) filmmaker’s position on the ethics of care and (intimate) solidarity with pr
On the position of filmmaker as feminist, this article aims to investigate the documentarian’s strategies of dealing with the cruelty in activism and the cruelty suffered by women in Chinese context. I will firstly analyse the protagonists’ shock from We the Workers (2017), which shows the tension between activism logic and cinematic representation of activist. This tension was eased by recognisin
Background: Work and other everyday activities are beneficial for well-being among people with mental illness, but poor circumstances can create detrimental effects, possibly aggravated by additional vulnerabilities linked with their mental illness. This study aimed to investigate how activity factors were related to well-being and functioning among three vulnerable groups using outpatient mental
Civil rights activist Hu Jia was held under house arrest from 2004 to 2008 in the upscale eastern suburbs of Beijing. One day Hu picked up a video camera and began to document things outside the window: his watchers, shepherds tending their flocks, spiders in the rain, and his fellow activist and wife, Zeng Jinyan, going to and from work under the unnervingly close watch of plainclothes police.
Made on International Women's Day 2015 in collaboration with Zeng Jinyan (writer, Hong Kong) and Liao Yiwu (Composer/Performer,Berlin) for Chinese Artist Liu Xia, wife of Liu Xiaobo, under house arrest in Beijing without charge since her husband, poet Liu Xiaobo was awarded the Nobel Peace prize in 2010, This video was made to remind her that her art may be forbidden in China but she is not is not
Shot over a six-year period (2009-15) mainly in the industrial heartland of south China, a major hub in the global supply chain, this film follows labor activists as they find common grounds with workers, helping them to negotiate with local officials and factory owners over wages and working conditions. Threats, attacks, detention and boredom become part of their daily lives as they struggle to s
Shot over an eight-year period, Outcry and Whisper presents itself as a political manifesto for the resistance of women, be they workers, artists, intellectuals or militants, in Chinese and Hong Kong society. Their accounts shine a light on a ferocious battle for independence.
