Subtitle:
with Dr. Christopher Lupke, University of Alberta
Activity Type:
Film
Date:
Friday, November 1, 2019 - 13:00
Event Status:
As Scheduled
Location:
3911 Wesley W. Posvar Hall, University of Pittsburgh
Yi Yi (一 一) is a 2000 Taiwanese film written and directed by Edward Yang. The film's theme centers around the emotional struggles of an engineer named NJ and three generations of his middle-class Taiwanese family in Taipei.
The title in Chinese means "one by one" (meaning "one after another"). When written in vertical alignment, the two strokes resemble the character for "two": (二). Yi Yi premiered at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival, where Yang won the Best Director Award. It is now generally regarded as one of the major films of the 21st century.
- Q and A with film scholar Chris Lupke.
UCIS Unit:
Asian Studies Center
Is Event Already in University Calendar?:
No