By Qiu Liwei; translated by Yixing Li This essay reviews the evolution of Taiwan animation, from the golden age of overseas subcontracting in the 1980s, to the creation of original content in the early 21st century, and the market orientation in the current age. The focus of this discussion is the interdependence and balance between … Continue reading Taiwan Animation: From Subcontractor to Creator
By Yiyang Hou Panpan Yang’s PhD dissertation, Animating Space: Towards a Poetics of Chinese Animation, fosters a dialogue between cinema studies and the study of visual art. In this study, Yang offers an interdisciplinary and critically-engaged examination of the poetics of Chinese animation from the 1920s to the present. Taking the history of Chinese animation … Continue reading Animating Space: Towards a Poetics of Chinese Animation, Ph.D. dissertation, by Panpan Yang, University of Chicago, USA, August 2020. 286 pp.
LIN Wenxiao (1935-2023) passed away on June 7, 2023, only half a year later after her husband Yan Dingxian (1936-2022) passed away in December 2022. Lin graduated from the Beijing Film Academy in 1953 and immediately joined the Shanghai Animation Film Studio, where she worked as animation designer and director. She was key animator for Little Tadpoles … Continue reading Female Animation Director Lin Wenxiao (1935-2023) Passed Away on June 7, 2023
Time: June 29-30 (Thursday & Friday, Hong Kong time), 2023 Location: IAS 5007, Lee Shau Kee Campus, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Zoom: ID: 986 4286 2563 Password: ACASSHSS Organizers: Daisy Yan Du, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong John Crespi, Colgate University, USA Yiman Wang, University of California, Santa … Continue reading Chinese Animation: Multiplicities in Motion: A Book Publication Workshop in Honor of Professor Yingjin Zhang (1957-2022), June 29-30, 2023, HKUST, Hong Kong
By Yomi Braester In this essay I hope to provoke scholars of animation into considering the role of time, both cinematic time and historical time. Like other genres of the moving image, animation often has at its core the disappearance of the image — an anticipated, even planned obsolescence. I examine here works exhibited as … Continue reading Animation, the Obsolescence of the Image, and the Disappearance of Hong Kong Architecture
Chinese Film: Realism and Convention from the Silent Era to the Digital Age (Jason McGrath, University of Minnesota Press, 2022) features a few chapters on CGI, animation, and live-action cinema. It is available for downloading at: https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/chinese-film Share This:
Title: CGI and “National Style”: Zhang Yimou’s Shadow Time: 9am-10am, May 15 (Monday, Hong Kong Time), Zoom Speaker: Professor Jason McGrath, University of Minnesota, USA Moderator: Professor Jinying Li, Brown University, USA Format: 40 minutes’ lecture, followed by 20 minutes’ Q & A Abstract: In the history of computer-generated imagery (CGI) in China, as in … Continue reading CGI and “National Style”: Zhang Yimou’s Shadow, online lecture by Professor Jason McGrath, 9-10am, May 15 (Monday, Hong Kong Time), Zoom
Title: Animation, Collage, and the Afterlife of Images: Found Footage in/as Animation Time: 9:30-10:30am, May 10 (Wed, Hong Kong Time), Zoom Speaker: Professor Yomi Braester, University of Washington in Seattle, USA Moderator: Professor Paola Voci, University of Otago, New Zealand Format: 40 minutes’ lecture, followed by 20 minutes’ Q & A Abstract: In this essay I … Continue reading Animation, Collage, and the Afterlife of Images: Found Footage in/as Animation, online lecture by Professor Yomi Braester, 9:30-10:30am, May 10 (Wed, Hong Kong Time), Zoom
The School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong is pleased to invite you and your company to the screening of Relentless Melt No. 26: New Animated Abstractions. Date: 15 May 2023 Time: 6:30 PM Venue: M6094 Future Cinema Studio, L6, Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre 18 Tat Hong Avenue, Kowloon … Continue reading Screening of Relentless Melt No. 26: New Animated Abstractions, City University of Hong Kong, 6:30pm, May 15, 2023
By Jifeng Huang The History of Chinese Animation, edited by Sun Lijun, makes a considerable contribution to English language scholars who are interested in Chinese animation. In the first volume of this book, Chinese animation in the embryo stage (before 1930), the early stage (1931–1948), and the socialist era (1949–1977) are linearly instructed. The second … Continue reading The History of Chinese Animation (volume 2), edited by Sun Lijun. Routledge, 2022. 220pp.