2023 AAS-in-Asia Film Colloquium
(Cinematic Connections of East-Asia)
Film is a good visual medium of historical documentation. Through films, we can better understand the historical and cultural assets of Asia in world history.
The film colloquium aims to explore the essence of human beings beyond time and space and the emergence of a new humanistic discourse in Asian studies in the post-COVID-19 era.
The film colloquium includes a conversation with the famous Korean film director Jegyu Kang, and his film screening “My way” (2011).
1) Director's philosophy on films on East Asian topics related to colonialism, history, war, reconciliation, civil war, etc.
2) The awareness of the crisis situation in East Asia during the transition period and the future of Korean films in it
3) (East) the possibility of Asian cinema