An Evening with French Filmmaker Olivier Horn
Tuesday, April 8 2008, 7:00 p.m.
Figaro Coffee Shop, 2nd floor. 160 Xingye Road, Xintiandi
Oliver Horn will be showing and talking about his documentary film Beijing Love, alove story of two youngsters he filmed over a period of four years in the late 1990s. Whilst on a 1997 visit to Beijing in search of ‘reborn traditions’ Olivier noticed a ‘big shot’ flower market trader in a passionate embrace with his girlfriend. He was so taken aback that he went up to speak to them, and although he didn’t realize it then, the couple were the ‘secret goal’ of his trip. Olivier will also be talking about his experiences of living and working in China over the last three decades.
Olivier Horn was born in Paris in 1957 and first came to China in 1979 to teach French at the Beijing University of Foreign Languages. He began his filmmaking career at the age of 30 with the documentary Cheng Thing, portraying histravels through China with a Chinese poet, linguist and revolutionary. He has produced several works about Chinese culture and history, as well as about modern Chinese society. Recent projects include Victor Segalen, a French poet in the Heavenly Empire (1995), Chinese People of Paris (2002) and The Taklamakan Mummies, an archeological road-movie through the Taklamakan desert (2003). Olivier is currently visiting Shanghai to work on a long documentary film about the city in the 1930s, The Adventurers' Paradise, for French and German cultural public television ARTE.
This 50-minute film will be screened in French with English subtitles.
PLEASE RSVP: Lindsay.shen@royalasiaticsociety.org.cn
30 Rmb for members
50 Rmb for guests