Curated by Tom Vick, Curator of Film at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art

DCEFF Director of Programming Brad Forder talks with Tom Vick about his film choices and his work as Curator of Film at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art. Tom Vick is the curator of film at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art. Formerly Vick was the coordinator of film programs at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. He has worked as a consultant for the International Film Festival Rotterdam and served on the juries of the Korean Film Festival in Los Angeles, the Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal, Filmfest DC, and the Smithsonian African-American Film Festival. He has contributed essays to Directory of World Cinema: Japan, Film Festival Yearbook, Asian Geographic, and other publications. He is the author of Asian Cinema: A Field Guide (2007) and Time and Place are Nonsense: The Films of Seijun Suzuki (2015).

An Introduction by the Curator: Tom Vick

DCEFF's Brad Forder talks with this program's curator Tom Vick

Depicting a gorgeous bird’s-eye view of Taiwan’s stunning natural landscape, this film set box office records in Taiwan and won the Best Documentary award at the 2013 Golden Horse Awards. The film proves why the Portuguese explorers who landed on the island in the 1500s immediately named it ilha formosa (beautiful island). But the documentary’s wonderful aerial photography also carries a message about how the island’s landscape is being mistreated. The beauty of Taiwan’s untouched areas is contrasted with images of mountainsides eroded by development and by large-scale farming and coastlines polluted by industry. As director Chi Po-lin said, “I am not here to judge, because I understand there is a price to pay to live the way we do right now. But each of us must stop pretending that all this destruction is not happening.”

Beyond Beauty: Taiwan from Above

Depicting a gorgeous bird’s-eye view of Taiwan’s stunning natural landscape, this film set box office records in Taiwan and won the Best Documentary award at the 2013 Golden Horse Awards.

This Oscar-nominated film centers on a ritual among Mongolian nomadic herders in which music is used to convince a mother camel not to reject her young. The bonds between humans, animals, and the nature that both threatens and nourishes them has rarely been so movingly depicted.

The Story of the Weeping Camel

Centers on a ritual among Mongolian nomadic herders in which music is used to convince a mother camel not to reject her young.

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Beyond Beauty: Taiwan from Above + The Story of the Weeping Camel (Curated by Tom Vick)

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