LOST COURSE 《迷航》
by Jill Li 李哲昕
Film Screening & Sharing Session
KLEX is thrilled to present the award-winning documentary film “Lost Course” by documentary filmmaker Jill Li in our ExScreen series this month. The humanist film about land issues, corruption and idealism won the 57th Golden Horse Award for Best Documentary. Filmmaker and educator Usen Leong will be moderating the after-screening sharing session. Come check it out and meet the director from Hong Kong in person!
* Sharing session will be conducted in Mandarin with English simultaneous translation.
Date & Time: 30 September 2022 (Fri), 7:45PM
Venue: Dou Houz
Add: 10D, Jalan Panggong, 50000 Kuala Lumpur.
Suggested donation: RM20
Limited seats, WhatsApp reservation: 012 919 8031
Facebook event: https://fb.me/e/2mMt6dEsc
ABOUT THE FILM
LOST COURSE
2019 / Hong Kong / 179 min
Embedding herself in the village of Wukan, southern China for several years starting in 2011, first time documentarian Jill Li witnessed an unprecedented experiment in local democracy. Corrupt officials had illegally sold villagers’ land, but the villagers decided to fight back.
The documentary is divided into two halves: the first, “Protests”, depicts the grassroots activities of Wukan residents as they work to reverse the land sales and gain a substantial measure of control over their local territory. We see how the villagers themselves learn to organize elections, form alliances, and win support. Part two, “After Protests”, confronts the collapse of idealism as the newly elected village government finds itself mired in the same kind of corrupt dealings they had originally condemned.
Li reveals the complexities of their triumphs and setbacks from the inside. Her astonishingly intimate, sympathetic and fair-minded access to the events’ major players reveals Chinese local politics with three-dimensional passion and energy.
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR
Jill LI, Hong Kong documentary filmmaker. Her documentary feature Lost Course (2019), which took eight years to complete, was hailed as a humanist masterpiece and won the 57th Golden Horse Award for Best Documentary. Lost Course also selected for International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam and Vancouver International Film Festival.
ABOUT THE MODERATOR
After completing studies in film at the National Taiwan University of the Arts, Usen Leong returned to her native Malaysia, working in visual theater design and documentary productions. She currently serves as a full-time lecturer for the drama department at New Era University College, and writes a theater column for several major Malaysian media outlets.
《迷航》 簡介：
2019 / 香港 / 179 min
2011年，烏坎村民因土地被貪官非法變賣，挺身集體抗爭，以民主投票，選出抗爭領袖執掌村委會，誓在追討土地，成為中國追求民主的焦點事件。抗爭看似勝利，但多年後，問題依舊，新的政治風波不斷上演。導演以八年時間，聚焦多位核心人物，見證他們的迷茫與變化，與記錄這場失速急墜的文明迷航。
導演簡介：
李哲昕，香港紀錄片導演。其執導的首部紀錄長片《迷航》（2019），歷經八年追蹤拍攝及製作，被譽為「以人為本」、「完美呈現複雜性」的佳作，奪得第57屆金馬獎最佳紀錄片等多項大獎，並入選2020年阿姆斯特丹紀錄片電影節、溫哥華電影節等多個電影節。
主持人簡介：
梁友瑄畢業於台灣藝術大學電影研究所，大學期間開始投入紀錄片創作，返馬後涉及劇場影像設計丶剪接丶專欄撰稿丶特刊主編等領域，現為新紀元大學學院戲劇與影像系講師。劇評散見於街報、當今大馬等媒體。
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Founded in January 2015, ExScreen is a film screening series of KLEX aiming at introducing cinema works with an alternative, experimental and unconventional approach to a larger audience in Malaysia. ExScreen aims to provide the platform for appreciation, understanding, and discussion of experimental cinema.
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