Several Asia Society events will be hosted this August here in New York City. I highly recommend taking advantage of these great opportunities. Find more details at the Asia Society site.
August 11th, 2015
6:30pm – 8:40pm
Film: Korean Movie Night New York presents, Detective K: Secret of the Lost Island. The film will be shown at:
Asia Society 725 Park Avenue (at East 70 Street) New York, NY*Free admission. First-come, first-served. Line forms at 5:30 pm. Tickets are distributed at 6:00 pm. One ticket per person only.
Detective K: Secret of the Lost Island is a sequel to Detective K: Secret of the Virtuous Widow. The film is set in the 18th century and is an entertaining action-comedy that follows Detective Kim Min and his many adventures. In this sequel, Detective Min is investigating the influx of counterfeit silver threatening to destabilize the Joseon dynasty.
See the trailer below.
August 20th, 2015
6:30pm – 8:15pm
Film: People’s Park. Cinema on the Edge: the Best of the Beijing Independent Film Festival 2012-2014. Stay afterwards for a post-screening Q&A with director J.P. Sniadecki. The film will be shown at:
Asia Society 725 Park Avenue New York, NY*$8 members; $10 students/seniors; $12 nonmembers
Created by 2 young American directors, this documentary was shot in the People’s Park, Chengdu, Sichuan in one single 75 minute take. The film captures the fullness of Chinese urban leisure life, panning side to side and catching hundreds of urbanites out for fun, relaxation, socializing, and enjoying the simple things – eating, singing, practicing calligraphy, and simply living. What starts as watching transforms to dancing, as the film slowly gathers an ecstatic, trance-like groove, building to a rapturous climax, as people, movement, music, image, and sound mix together.
August 24th, 2015
6:30pm – 9:15pm
Film: The Dossier. Cinema on the Edge: the Best of the Beijing Independent Film Festival 2012-2014. Stay afterwards for a post-screening Q&A with director Zhu Rikun and Robert Barnett, Columbia University. The film will be shown at:
Asia Society 725 Park Avenue New York, NY*$8 members; $10 students/seniors; $12 nonmembers
In this documentary, Chinese filmmaker Zhu Rikun explores Tibetan writer Tsering Woeser. Woeser, now based in Beijing, has become one of the most eloquent voices on Tibet through her writing and online presence. Zhu’s sharply designed, formally innovative documentary unfolds completely in Woeser’s own voice: Zhu alternates formally photographed scenes of the writer reading excerpts from her secret government “dossier” (to which she has somehow gained access) with scenes of her speaking in her own soft but passionate voice. Woeser’s moving account of her political awakening and current activism makes for a powerful document of a Tibetan woman finding her voice and insisting on her freedom to use it.