【SRCS Graduate Seminar, “Moving Image and Temporal Critique: Queers and Ghosts in Asian Cinema” Film Forum 】
Media, Medium, Migration

📍Time: May 8th, 2025, 1:30 pm-4:20 pm
📍Venue: F106A, Humanities Bldg.2, Guangfu Campus, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University

🔹Speakers Info. :
🔹Prof. Feng-Mei Heberer  (Associate Professor, Department of Cinema Studies, New York University)
Prof. Heberer is the author of Asians on Demand: Mediating Race in Video Art and Activism. Most recently, she programmed films with the Asian Film Festival Berlin, Dekoloniale/korientation e.V., and Saigon Experimental.
🔹Sylvia Schedelbauer (Director, Mother's Letter)
Born in Tokyo in 1973, Sylvia Schedelbauer (she) is a Berlin-based artist. Schedelbauer’s films negotiate the space between broader historical narratives and personal, psychological realms mainly through poetic manipulations of found and archival footage. (Schedelbauer will join the Q&A session online.)
🔹Host: Prof. Hwa-Jen Tsai (Assistant Professor, Institute of Social Research and Cultural Studies, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University)

🔹Film Titles:

Mother’s Letter (Sylvia Schedelbauer, 2024),

My Therapist Said, I am Full of Sadness (Monica Vanesa Tedja, 2024),

Dog Star Descending (Aykan Safoğlu, 2021),

Journey Inside a City (Sarah Munaf, 2022),

Into the Violet Belly (Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi, 2022)

🔸Sponsors and organizers: Institute of Social Research and Cultural Studies, NYCU + Powered Image Working Lab

🔸Co-sponsors: Taiwan Women’s Film Association, Women Make Waves International Film Festival, Taiwan, and Goethe Institut-Taipei