James T. Hong

Summary

James T. Hong (Chinese: 洪子健; pinyin: Hóng Zǐjiàn) is a Taiwanese-American filmmaker and artist whose works tend to focus on philosophical topics and figures, controversial race and class issues, and historical conflicts in Asia.[1]

Works edit

His films and videos include Behold the Asian: How One Becomes What One Is, Condor: A Film from California, The Form of the Good, Taipei 101: A Travelogue of Symptoms, The Spear of Destiny, Suprematist Kapital, and The Denazification of MH about Martin Heidegger, which is analyzed in the journal Film-Philosophy.[2]

Hong produced the award-winning documentary 731: Two Versions of Hell about Japan's Unit 731 in 2007,[3] which was followed by Lessons of the Blood in 2010.[4]

His 2012 film The Turner Film Diaries is based on the infamous, racist American novel, The Turner Diaries.[5]

He has written for e-flux journal[6] and has been featured in various contemporary art biennials.[7]

In 2016 he released the documentary Terra Nullius or: How to Be a Nationalist, which focuses on disputed territory in the East China Sea.[8]

References edit

  1. ^ "影片總覽".
  2. ^ "Film-Philosophy".
  3. ^ "Academic Video Online".
  4. ^ "Lessons of the Blood". IMDb. 14 March 2010.
  5. ^ "Niet gevonden | IDFA".
  6. ^ "From Guilt to Sickness, Part I: Looking for Plague in All the Right Places - Journal #42 February 2013 - e-flux".
  7. ^ "James T. Hong talks about his work in the Taipei Biennial".
  8. ^ "Terra Nullius or: How to be a Nationalist".

External links edit

  • http://taiwandocs.tfi.org.tw/en/film_detail/11726
  • http://artforum.com/words/id=63513
  • http://www.uniondocs.org/james-t-hong-an-antidote/
  • http://www.berliner-kuenstlerprogramm.de/en/gast.php?id=1094
  • http://www.filmakers.com/index.php?a=filmDetail&filmID=1578
  • James T. Hong at IMDb
  • http://www.sfbg.com/39/33/cover_james_t_hong.html
  • https://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/2016/02_programm_2016/02_Filmdatenblatt_2016_201603082.php#tab=filmStills
  • http://www.ubu.com/film/hong.html
  • https://web.archive.org/web/20121019212543/http://pots.tw/node/11086