Independent Cinema in China: State, Market and Film Culture

中国独立电影：国家、市场与电影文化

• 批准号: AH/S001778/1
• 负责人: Sabrina Qiong Yu
• 金额: $ 102.45万
• 依托单位: Newcastle University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FS001778%2F1
• 关键词: Independent; Cinema; China; State; Market

Censored, marginalized and largely inaccessible, independent cinema in the People's Republic of China is widely recognised as an important achievement of recent Chinese cinema. It functions as a dynamic force to challenge the concepts of art, truth, reality and ethics constructed in official discourses and to explore alternative spaces, places, voices, and images that have been ignored or distorted in mainstream media. However, following a nationwide shut-down of independent film festivals and organizations in the PRC since 2012, there is a real danger that these works and the material culture surrounding them may disappear. This project aims to preserve independent films made in the PRC in the past three decades and to conduct comprehensive research into this unique but under-researched film culture. This four-year international project is led by film scholars from UK and China (Sabrina Qiong Yu, Newcastle University; Chris Berry, King's College London; Luke Robinson, Sussex University; Xianmin Zhang, Beijing Film Academy), all active researchers and steadfast advocates of Chinese independent cinema who have excellent personal and professional connections with Chinese independent film circles, and supported by a Research Assistant. We will work closely with a large number of independent filmmakers and curators as well as a range of industry partners, supported by a multi-national Advisory Board comprised of 10 prominent filmmakers, curators and academics of Chinese independent cinema around the world. We want to understand how Chinese independent cinema has been produced, circulated and received, as well as how its relationship to the state and the market has shaped this cinema. To that end, we will conduct a questionnaire-based survey of 200 independent filmmakers and semi-structured interviews with 25 selected representative directors. We will also survey audiences for independent films and interview other stakeholders such as the curators of film festivals and the CEOs of film companies/funds which are committed to the production and distribution of independent films. We will communicate the findings to academic audiences via a monograph, an academic conference and a subsequent anthology, academic journal articles and conference panels/papers.We will launch the first Chinese independent film archive in Europe in which a rare collection of Chinese independent films and a disappearing film production and exhibition culture are preserved. It will not only safeguard cultural heritage for future generations, but also keep an 'alternative', faithful record of social changes and historical trauma in socialist and post-socialist China that is unobtainable elsewhere. We will advocate the use of independent films, documentaries in particular, as first-hand sources for research on and teaching of modern China within higher education. The first Chinese independent film online database, a YouTube channel and other digital platforms will be set up to enhance awareness of Chinese independent films and stimulate interest in the archive. The project will also benefit non-academic communities such as filmmakers, film industries and the general public. To enable this, we will collaborate with leading industry partners Sheffield Doc/Fest and CNEX in China to hold a Sheffield Doc/Fest-CNEX Documentary Summit in Beijing and panel discussions on UK-China co-production at Sheffield Doc/Fest in the UK. We will curate a UK film tour together with local art-house cinemas in four different UK cities as well as China Visual Festival (London), Chinese Film Forum (Manchester), and the Institute for Screen Industries Research at Nottingham University. To mark the launch of the film archive, there will be a film week at Newcastle's Tyneside Cinema, a symposium at Newcastle University, and a multi-media exhibition on the history of Chinese independent cinema over three decades at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead.

被审查的、边缘化的、基本上无法进入的独立电影在中华人民共和国中国被广泛认为是近年来中国电影的一项重要成就。它作为一股动力，挑战官方话语中构建的艺术、真理、现实和伦理的概念，探索在主流媒体中被忽视或歪曲的替代空间、地点、声音和图像。然而，自2012年以来，随着中国全国范围内关闭独立电影节和组织，这些作品及其周围的物质文化可能会消失，这是一个真正的危险。这个项目旨在保存过去三十年在中国制作的独立电影，并对这种独特但未被研究的电影文化进行全面的研究。这个为期四年的国际项目由来自英国和中国(纽卡斯尔大学的Sabrina琼宇、伦敦国王学院的Chris Berry、苏塞克斯大学的Luke Robinson、北京电影学院的张先民)的电影学者领导，他们都是中国独立电影的积极研究人员和坚定的倡导者，与中国独立电影界有着良好的个人和专业联系，并得到一名研究助理的支持。我们将与大量独立电影制作人和策展人以及一系列行业合作伙伴密切合作，并由一个由全球10名知名中国独立电影制片人、策展人和学者组成的多国顾问委员会提供支持。我们想了解中国独立电影院是如何制作、发行和接受的，以及它与国家和市场的关系是如何塑造这个电影院的。为此，我们将对200名独立电影制作人进行问卷调查，并对25名选定的代表性导演进行半结构化访谈。我们亦会调查独立电影的观众，并访问其他持份者，例如电影节的策展人，以及致力制作和发行独立电影的电影公司/基金的行政总裁。我们将通过专著、学术会议和随后的文集、学术期刊文章和会议小组/论文向学术观众传达调查结果。我们将在欧洲推出第一个中国独立电影档案馆，其中保留了罕见的中国独立电影收藏和正在消失的电影制作和展览文化。它不仅将为子孙后代保护文化遗产，还将忠实地记录社会主义和后社会主义中国的社会变化和历史创伤，这是其他地方无法获得的。倡导利用独立电影特别是纪录片作为高校现代中国研究和教学的第一手资料。将建立首个中国独立电影在线数据库、YouTube频道等数字平台，以提高人们对中国独立电影的认识，激发人们对档案馆的兴趣。该项目还将惠及非学术社区，如电影制作人、电影业和普通公众。为了实现这一目标，我们将与行业领先的合作伙伴谢菲尔德DOC/FEST和中国的CNEX合作，在北京举办谢菲尔德DOC/FEST-CNEX纪录片峰会，并在英国谢菲尔德DOC/FEST上举办英国与中国联合制作的小组讨论。我们将与英国四个不同城市的当地艺术院线以及中国视觉艺术节(伦敦)、中国电影论坛(曼彻斯特)和诺丁汉大学银幕产业研究所共同策划英国电影巡演。为了纪念电影档案馆的启动，将在纽卡斯尔的泰恩赛德电影院举办电影周，在纽卡斯尔大学举办研讨会，并在盖茨黑德的波罗的海当代艺术中心举办关于中国独立电影史的多媒体展览。

项目成果

The Chinese Cinema Book

中国电影书

• 发表时间: 2020
• 作者: Robinson, L.

Sundance, CNEX, and the Cultural Politics of Story

圣丹斯电影节、CNEX 和故事的文化政治

• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: World Records
• 作者: Robinson, L.

Chinese Independent Cinema Observer No. 2: Pre-history of Chinese Independent Cinema

中国独立电影观察家第二期：中国独立电影的前史

• 发表时间: 2021
• 作者: Sabrina Qiong Yu, Wang Xiaolu

Crafting Chinese Memories

打造中国记忆

• 发表时间: 2022
• 作者: Berry, C.

Chinese Independent Cinema Observer No. 4: Anthropology, Contemporary Art and Chinese Independent Documentaries

中国独立电影观察第四期：人类学、当代艺术与中国独立纪录片

• 发表时间: 2022
• 作者: Li Xiaofeng, J.P. Sniadecki