Thursday, February 8, 2018
6:00 PM - 8:30 PM (ET)
Tang Teaching Museum Somers
Event Type
Artist Talk
Contact
Department
MDOCS
Link
http://ems.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?EventDetailId=19265
Chi-hui
Yang, an acclaimed curator, film scholar, and educator, makes grants in film,
new media, and visual storytelling for the foundation’s JustFilms program. He
has global experience in supporting emerging artists and in the wider field of
independent film. Before joining the foundation in 2015, Chi - hui worked
extensively as a film and video curator, including as a selection committee member for MoMA’ s
Documentary Fortnight, consulting series producer for PBS’s POV , and curator of Comcast’s Cinema Asian
America video - on - demand service. Among
his independently curated programs are the 2008 Flaherty Film Seminar, “The Age
of Migration,” and the 2014 film series and symposium Lines and Modes: Media,
Infrastructure, and Aesthetics. From
2000 to 2012, he was director of the San Francisco International Asian American
Film Festival, the largest event of its kind in the nation.
This is the first in a four-part series, Testingn the Limits of Documentary Practices, organized by Prof. Cecilia Aldarondo (English).