Indiana University Cinema Bloomington, IN
Guo-Juin Hong
Associate Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Duke University; Director, Program in the Arts of the Moving Image; Academic Director, Duke in L.A. Program
andMarissa J. Moorman
Associate Professor of History, Indiana University
andSusan Hwang
Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Indiana University
andJoshua Malitsky
Professor, Indiana University Media School; Director, Center for Documentary Research and Practice
Black— Water pollution and food security
Program Description
A post-screening panel discussion follows the film.
Presented At
Indiana University Cinema Bloomington, IN
Film Synopsis
Pollution threatens the water supply of poor farming communities in Taiwan.
Black investigates water pollution in Taiwan and its consequences for both the environment and poor communities who rely on contaminated crops. It asks, why have factories been allowed to sprout amidst green fields? How can a country address the issue of food security when it turns a blind eye to the poisoning of its croplands? Renowned documentary film director Ke Chin-yuan poses sharp questions about how pollution affects the livelihoods of the poor in a country increasingly concerned with environmental degradation and food safety. In Mandarin with English subtitles.
About the Speaker
Guo-Juin Hong's research and teaching are centered around film and audiovisual media, as well as other modes of representational forms, focusing on Chinese-language cinema.
Marissa Moorman is a historian of southern Africa whose researched focuses on the intersection between politics and culture in colonial and independent Angola.
Susan Hwang is a literature and film scholar who specializes in dissident politics in post-1960s South Korea.
Joshua Malitsky works on a range of topics related to documentary and other nonfiction media genres, focusing on films made as part of revolutionary political movements in East Europe (USSR, and Yugoslavia) and Latin America (Cuba).