【演講資訊／Speech Info.】“Poor Cinema from a Global South Perspective” 全球南方視野下的貧窮電影

Speaker：Song Hwee LIM (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)林松輝（香港中文大學）

Time：2019/05/29(Wed),14:00-17:00
Venue：Room 106A, HA2 Bldg, NCTU 交通大學人社二館106教室

**The talk will be conducted in English. 講座將以英語進行。

This talk aims to map different practices and conceptualisations of poverty and the cinema in the twenty-first century. It argues that the relationship between poverty and cinema must be reconfigured in the age of neoliberal capitalism and digital technology. It asks the following questions: How can the medium of cinema contribute to our understanding of economic poverty? How has cinema represented the poor and problematized the issue of poverty? How can it be mobilized to raise awareness about economic inequality and as a tool for activism to fight for social justice under neoliberalism? What potential changes does the democratization of filmmaking and film viewing in the digital age bring to the relationship between cinema and poverty? 
This talk will interrogate the notion of poverty as it has been deployed across different artistic media and theoretical formulations, including “poor theatre”, “poor image”, and “poor theory”. It will pay particular attention to works produced in the Global South, including feature films that both portray poverty and mobilize poverty as a method as well as documentaries that deal with environmental destruction and waste collectors.
本演講旨在繪出二十一世紀對於貧窮與電影的不同實踐和概念化的圖像，並指出在新自由資本主義和數位科技的時代，貧窮與電影的關係必須重構。提出的問題包括：電影此媒介如何增進我們對貧窮的認知？電影如何再現窮人以及問題化貧窮的議題？如何動員電影以提高對經濟不平等的意識，並作為對抗新自由主義以爭取社會正義的工具？數位時代電影製作與觀影的民主化，又可能為電影和貧窮的關係帶來什麼改變？
本演講將探討貧窮此概念在不同藝術媒介和理論建構中的操作，如「貧窮劇場」、「貧窮影像」、「貧窮理論」等。特別關注的是全球南方出產的作品，包含呈現貧窮並以貧窮作為方法的劇情片，以及處理環境破壞和垃圾回收者的紀錄片。

Song Hwee LIM is Professor of Cultural Studies at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is the author of Tsai Ming-liang and a Cinema of Slowness(2014) and Celluloid Comrades: Representations of Male Homosexuality in Contemporary Chinese Cinemas (2006). He is the founding editor of the Journal of Chinese Cinemas. He is also the co-editor of Remapping World Cinema: Identity, Culture, and Politics in Film (2006) and The Chinese Cinema Book (2011). His latest book manuscript on Taiwan New Cinema as soft power is currently under review.
林松輝，臺大中文系學士，英國劍橋大學東方學院碩士、博士，香港中文大學文化及宗教研究系教授。中文著作《蔡明亮與緩慢電影》（臺大出版中心，2016）。英文學術期刊《華語電影研究》創刊主編。剛完成一本關於臺灣新電影與軟實力的英文專書。

經費來源： 高等教育深耕計畫─特色領域研究中心計畫：「衝突、正義、解殖：亞際社會批判研究」
主辦單位： 國立交通大學/台聯大系統文化研究國際中心、交通大學社會與文化研究所、亞際文化研究國際碩士學位學程（台灣聯合大學系統）