Share:  Viewing problems? View Cinemail online Exhibitions Programs & Events Cinema Members Shop Blog TV Continuing until 14 April, the Gallery's Australian Cinémathèque presents two major cinema programs as part of 'The 7th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art' (APT7), the latest instalment of QAGOMA's flagship contemporary art series. Mountains and Waters: Chinese Animation Since the 1930s features exquisite works of animation that draw on long-standing aesthetic traditions and techniques, including ink-wash painting, shadow plays, papercuts, puppetry and woodblock prints. This fortnight showcases independent animations from Hong Kong and Taiwan. Don't miss celebrated Taiwanese animator Tseng Hui-Ching introducing her work at the 4.00pm screening on Saturday 23 February. Change: Paths Through 20 Years of Film uses the motif of change to explore 20 years of filmmaking throughout the region, highlighting a contemplative mode of storytelling that sets individual experience within the context of broader social change. FILM SCREENINGS: 15–24 February 2013 Donate Blood Instead of Hot-Blooded 2009 + Demon Kills 2011 + Last Breath 2012 DIRECTOR:  Mak Ying-Ping PROGRAM:  Mountains and Waters: Chinese Animation Since the 1930s WHEN:  Fri 15 Feb 6.00pm (18mins) WHERE:  Cinema A, GOMA Three animations by Hong Kong artist Mak Ying-Ping, who graduated from the Royal College of Art, London in 2012. In Donate Blood Instead of Hot-Blooded, a former bully is encouraged to follow his dreams by a classmate, while Demon Kills captures a troubled schoolboy's dark hallucinations. Inspired by the artist's experiences of Hong Kong, Last Breath is an elegy to the unique character of this city. Read more Neco Lo Che-Ying animation program DIRECTOR:  Neco Lo Che-Ying PROGRAM:  Mountains and Waters: Chinese Animation Since the 1930s WHEN:  Fri 15 Feb 6.30pm (61mins) WHERE:  Cinema A, GOMA A selection of nine animations by self-taught artist Neco Lo Che-Ying. A unique figure in the history of independent animation in Hong Kong, Lo won four consecutive Best Animation Awards from 1978–82 for his early works at the Hong Kong Independent Short Film Festival. Read more Happy Together 1997 M DIRECTOR:  Wong Kar-Wai PROGRAM:  Change: Paths Through 20 Years Of Film WHEN:  Fri 15 Feb 8.00pm (96 mins) WHERE:  Cinema A, GOMA 'Lai and Ho are lovers who travel to Argentina from Hong Kong in an effort to salvage their relationship but have a falling-out and set out on their separate ways. Lai goes to work as a doorman at a Buenos Aires tango bar, while Ho turns to a life of partying and pimping. Wong Kar-Wai fashions an unusual urban melodrama that explores the frustrations of cultural displacement and identity in a newly globalised, post-colonial world.' Harvard Film Archive Read more Lung Neaw Visits his Neighbours 2011 Ages 15+ DIRECTOR:  Rirkrit Tiravanija PROGRAM:  Change: Paths Through 20 Years Of Film WHEN:  Sat 16 Feb 1.00pm (154 mins) WHERE:  Cinema A, GOMA ‘Lung Neaw, a retired farmer, lives in a tranquil village in Chiang Mai, far from the political turmoil in Bangkok. At a moment when many people are demanding equality, opportunity and democracy, the film offers a contemplative look at one man’s humble dialogue with his surroundings.’ Museum of Modern Art, New York Read more Hong Kong contemporary animation program DIRECTOR:  Stella So Man-Yee / Wong Chung Yu / George Wong Cheuk-Hin / Welby Chung Wai-Kueng PROGRAM:  Mountains and Waters: Chinese Animation Since the 1930s WHEN:  Sat 16 Feb 4.00pm (48 mins) WHERE:  Cinema A, GOMA A selection of animations responding to life in Hong Kong, particularly the rapid modernisation of the city and the loss of its historical architectural landscape. Read more Dick Wong Bo-Tak DIRECTOR:  Dick Wong Bo-Tak PROGRAM:  Mountains and Waters: Chinese Animation Since the 1930s WHEN:  Sun 17 Feb 12.30pm (13 mins) WHERE:  Cinema A, GOMA Presenting three works by senior Hong Kong animator Dick Wong. The Magic Brush recounts the famous story of a poor boy who uses a brush with magical powers to help his village until challenged by a greedy official. In The Mushroom Paradise, a mushroom-growing competition changes the world, and in Once upon a New Year's Eve, Rabbit waits for Dragon to take his place in the Chinese calendar on the eve of the lunar new year. Read more The Young Swordsman Lung Kim-Fei Part 4 aka Buddha's Palm Part 4 1964 DIRECTOR:  Ling Yun PROGRAM:  Mountains and Waters: Chinese Animation Since the 1930s WHEN:  Sun 17 Feb 1.00pm (90 mins) WHERE:  Cinema A, GOMA Mortally wounded in his battle with the Three Evils, Suen's murderers, Master Ku flees to a temple and, before dying, records the ninth style of the Buddha's Palm by imprinting it on six vessels. The vessels become separated and must be reunited to defeat the Three Evils. Read more Grain in Ear 2005 Ages 15+ DIRECTOR:  Zhang Lü PROGRAM:  Change: Paths Through 20 Years Of Film WHEN:  Sun 17 Feb 3.00pm (109 mins) WHERE:  Cinema A, GOMA 'Cui Shunji sells kimchi from an unlicensed cart, bringing up her young son alone in a rented room, just barely getting by. Good things start to happen to her but Shunji remains essentially powerless, and when things start to go wrong she can't help being a victim. This is a social–realist fable illuminating the gap between haves and have-nots in ways that Marx never dreamed of.' Brisbane International Film Festival Read more Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks, Part II: Remnants 2003 Ages 18+ DIRECTOR:  Wang Bing PROGRAM:  Change: Paths Through 20 Years Of Film WHEN:  Wed 20 Feb 6.00pm (178 mins) WHERE:  Cinema A, GOMA 'Shifting its focus to the vast shantytowns that emerged in the shadow of the factories, the second part of Wang's trilogy offers a multi-generational portrait of a community faced with the sudden terrible certainty of its own demise. As the factories close, the always unseen and off-camera forces of the state abruptly begin to tear down homes, giving only perfunctory notice to their inhabitants.' Harvard Film Archive Read more Taiwan animation program DIRECTOR:  Liu Keng-Ming / Mores Zhan PROGRAM:  Mountains and Waters: Chinese Animation Since the 1930s WHEN:  Fri 22 Feb 6.00pm (28 mins) WHERE:  Cinema A, GOMA Liu Keng-Ming incorporates collage, video, stop motion and traditional illustration skills in his works in this selection of independent animations. The screening also features two animations by Mores Zhan, whose film ReNew/The Future not Future won the grand prize at the 2011 Asia Digital Art Awards in Japan. Read more Legend of the Sacred Stone 2000 Ages 12+ DIRECTOR:  Huang Qianghua PROGRAM:  Mountains and Waters: Chinese Animation Since the 1930s WHEN:  Fri 22 Feb 6.30pm (90 mins) WHERE:  Cinema A, GOMA To prevent the destruction of the warrior's forest by the demon Mo Kuei, the heads of six martial arts schools are summoned by the great sage, Su Huan-Jen. A visually spectacular spin-off from the television series, Legend of the Sacred Stone integrates traditional Taiwanese glove puppetry with contemporary CG animation. Read more Goodbye South, Goodbye 1996 Ages 18+ DIRECTOR:  Hou Hsiao-Hsien PROGRAM:  Change: Paths Through 20 Years Of Film WHEN:  Fri 22 Feb 8.15pm (124 mins) WHERE:  Cinema A, GOMA 'Hou Hsiao-Hsien's protagonists are small-time gangsters and bar girls, always looking for ways out, but forever embroiled in petty, internecine squabbles, dashing from one get-rich-quick project to the next; in a sense, this is Hou's road movie.' Vancouver Film Festival Read more Autohystoria 2007 Ages 18+ DIRECTOR:  Raya Martin PROGRAM:  Change: Paths Through 20 Years Of Film WHEN:  Sat 23 Feb 1.00pm (95 mins) WHERE:  Cinema A, GOMA 'At the centre of Autohystoria is the execution of the revolutionary Bonifacio brothers,leading figures in the Philippine revolution for independence from the colonial power Spain. The film approaches its subject matter through a series of dramatic allegories, which the director himself has called "a collection of digitalised memories from dreams and realities".' Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival Read more Taiwan animation program DIRECTOR:  Chen Li-Hua / Liang Yu-Shuo / Daisy Lin Yu-Chuan PROGRAM:  Mountains and Waters: Chinese Animation Since the 1930s WHEN:  Sat 23 Feb 3.00pm (28 mins) WHERE:  Cinema A, GOMA This program features Taiwanese stories as told through the animations of three independent creators from Taiwan, Chen Li-Hua, Liang Yu-Shuo and Daisy Lin Yu-Chuan. Chen Li-Hua's Family Reunion tells the story of indigenous woman A-mei who is forbidden to take leave from her factory job in the city to visit her family for the Harvest Festival. Read more Tseng Hui-Ching animation program DIRECTOR:  Tseng Hui-Ching PROGRAM:  Mountains and Waters: Chinese Animation Since the 1930s WHEN:  Sat 23 Feb 4.00pm (34 mins) WHERE:  Cinema A, GOMA Tseng Hui-Ching's extraordinarily diverse animation practice incorporates stop motion, 2D and 3D techniques featuring found objects, illustration and photography. A professional artist and educator, she often works with children and students. Tseng Hui-Ching will introduce her animation program at 4pm prior to the screening. Read more Taiwan animation program DIRECTOR:  Chang Yi / Jay Shih Chang / Jack Shih Ming-Huei PROGRAM:  Mountains and Waters: Chinese Animation Since the 1930s WHEN:  Sun 24 Feb 11.00am (47 mins) WHERE:  Cinema A, GOMA A program of animation shorts by three directors; Chang Yi, Jay Shih Chang and Jack Shih Ming-Huei. Featuring Jay Shih Chang's A Fish with a Smile, based on the stories of celebrated Taiwanese illustrator Jimmy Liao. Read more The Furious Buddha's Palm aka Buddha's Palm The Grand Conclusion 1965 DIRECTOR:  Ling Yun PROGRAM:  Mountains and Waters: Chinese Animation Since the 1930s WHEN:  Sun 24 Feb 1.00pm (102 mins) WHERE:  Cinema A, GOMA Hong Kong stars Connie Chan Po-Chu and Josephine Siao Fong-Fong join the regular cast for the grand conclusion of the series, which sees Lung Kim-fei and Kau Yuk-wah battle another dastardly tyrant. Read more Corroboree 2007 M DIRECTOR:  Ben Hackworth PROGRAM:  Change: Paths Through 20 Years Of Film WHEN:  Sun 24 Feb 3.00pm (95 mins) WHERE:  Cinema A, GOMA 'A dying director sends for a young man to visit him in a meditation retreat to perform scenes from a story of his life. Ben Hackworth serves up an Alice in Wonderland-like tale (with a male Alice), loosely drawing inspiration from theatre impresario Richard Wherrett as the mysterious director.' 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