We are pleased to bring Taiwanese artist Wen-shing Ho, along with her filmmaking partner from Korea, Hwang Ouchul, to present their adventurous feature film, Takao Dancer, a playful, time-skipping tale of a perilous love triangle. The film features several of Hwang’s own abstract paintings, along with an eclectic infusing of artistic techniques ranging from time-lapse photography to interpretive dance. Ho will also deliver an illustrated talk on her application of the structures of musical composition techniques to experimental digital cinema.
Wen-Shing Ho is a dancer, musician, and filmmaker. Her feature film, Takao Dancer,_screening in Cinema Pacific, has screened in the Tokyo International Film Festival. Her earlier short films have garnered awards and screened at numerous festivals, including the Palm Springs Festival of Short Films and the American Vision Festival. Wen-Shing received her Ph.D. in Global Information and Telecommunication Studies from Waseda University in 2013 and MFA in Film and Electronic Media from American University, U.S.A. . She is currently Associate Researcher at Waseda University and has recently held two artist residencies in Taiwan.
Hwang Ouchul, co-director of Takao Dancer, received his Bachelor degree in Fine Art from Seoul National University, Korea and Master of Fine Arts degree from the Pratt Institute, New York respectively. His artistic practice includes painting, drawing, filmmaking and sculpture. He has had solo exhibitions over twenty times in various museums in Korea, Japan, Holland and China, and has participated in numerous group exhibitions worldwide. His works are widely collected by museums and galleries and private collectors. He has also been selected as an artist-in-residence of Korean National Museum of Contemporary Art.
Cosponsored with the Center for Asia and Pacific Studies, the Confucius Institute, and EALL.
Lecture by Wen-Shing Ho: “Musical Composition and Experimental Digital Cinema”
April 25 at 1:30p.m. at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art
April 26 at 6:45p.m. at Bijou Art Cinemas