Brown Bag Lecture
May 1, 2019
Yangchuk Tso is best known for her collaboration with the critically acclaimed Tibetan auteur Pema Tseden on his 2016 film “Tharlo”, which won best adapted screenplay at the 2016 Taipei Golden Horse awards. In addition to being the leading actress of the Tibetan New Wave, she is one of the best known Tibetan contemporary singers and has recently began to shoot her own ethnographic documentaries. We are at a critical juncture in the history of Tibetan media and cultural production, as Tibetan arthouse films take prizes at Venice biennale, Tibetan pop music and television dramas and even reality shows are fixtures on PRC state media channels.
This intimate event saw Yangchuk Tso reflect on her experience navigating these two worlds in Tibetan film and music in the PRC, and then engaged in a conversation about her own film practice by Eveline Washul (Columbia University) and Riga Shakya (Columbia University), followed by a Q&A session. The evening will provide the Columbia community a rare opportunity to hear first-hand reflections on pop music and filmmaking on the Tibetan plateau and ethnic minority film practice and the politics of representation in contemporary China.
