VISUAL PROGRAM

THURSDAY, APRIL 11

Closed event for DKU community.

4:30. OPENING EVENT. Auditorium AB. DKU.

RED CARPET GALA. Photo session (Dress to impress!)

5:00 pm

“The Pledge” by DKU Chancellor Youmei FENG.

Opening words by Environmental Research Center Associate Director, Kathinka FURST  &  Co-Director Humanities Research Center, Professor James MILLER. Presentation of the DKU Students Leadership Program.

“Junk” (2015) Director: Walter Tournier. Uruguay. 5 minutes
“Homeland: Stories from Sanjiangyuan” (2018) Director: Liu Zhuang. China. 7 minutes 07
“Bery’s One Week” (2018) Director: Beryl Wang. DKU. Run time: 3 minutes 58

Opening remarks by Doris Duke Professor of Conservation, Stuart PIMM and Steve BLAKE. China Chief Representative WILDAID.

“Saving the Porpoise (Vaquita)” (2018) Director: Andrew Wegst. Mexico/China. 50 minutes.

7:00 pm.

RECEPTION. EXECUTIVE DINNING HALL. AB

 


FRIDAY, 12 AND SATURDAY 13  OPEN FOR THE PUBLIC   PLEASE REGISTER

FRIDAY, APRIL 12

AUDITORIUM BALLROOM A  BALLROOM B
10am-12pm Talk by Professor Binbin LI. IMEP, DKU.
Films: *“The Glories of the Minya Konga” (2018) Director: Dong Lei. China. 22 minutes
&
“Ganges: A Journey Through the Senses of Water” (2018) Director: Robert Restrepo. India/Colombia. 75 minutes
“Wasteland” (2010) Directors: Lucy Walker, Joao Jardim. Brazil. 138 minutes “Nukak: Still Waiting” (2018) Director: Jose Luis Cote. Colombia. 8 minutes 15
“Born in China” (2017) Director: Lu Chuan. China. 79 minutes
*“Decommissioned” (2018) Directors: Huijing Huang, Kameron Eric Shroeder, Xiaoling Xie. China. 11 minutes
12pm-1p “A Message to the Sea” (2012) Director: Basir Mahmood. Pakistan. 6 minutes
&
*“Sharks: Feared and Food” (2018) Director: Kameron Schroeder. DKU. 4 minutes 50
“Pangolin” (2017) Directors: Katy Shuler, Nick Rogacki. United States. 15 minutes
English
“Pangolin” (2017) Directors: Katy Shuler, Nick Rogacki. United States. 15 minutes
Mandarin
Lunch Break. DKU Canteen
1pm-3pm Talk by Jet CHANG, TOMRA ASIA & Jiang NANQING. China Plastics Reuse and Recycle Association.

“Yangtze Drift” (2015) Director: John Rash. China/USA. 27 minutes
&
“A Plastic Ocean” (2017) Director: Craig Leeson. The Netherlands. 92 minutes

“Isle of Flowers” (Ilha Das Flores) (1989) Director: Jorge Furtado. Brazil. 13 minutes
“Oceans: The Mystery of the Missing Plastic” (2016) Director: Vincent Perazio. France. 54 minutes
&
“Forest Law” (2014-18) Director: Ursula Biemann. Switzerland/Ecuador. 32 minutes
Introduction by Zhang DENGGGAO, Green Ahui & Yiren WANG, IMEP Candidate.                      “Koka, the Butcher” (2018) Director: Bence Mate. Egypt. 37 minutes
“Deep Weather” (2013) Director: Ursula Biemann. Switzerland. 9 minutes
&
“Warriors of Qiugang” (2011) Director: Ruby Yang. China. 39 minutes
3pm-5pm Auditorium AB. DKU.

Talk by Francis SOLLANO on “trashion” & Professor Shu-chin TSUI on Chinese eco-cinema.
Films:
“Plastic China” (2016) Director: Wang Jiuliang. China. 82 minutes
&
“The Millers” (2018) Director: Erin Espelie. United States. 5 minutes 30

5pm-7pm Auditorium AB. DKU.

Talk BY Yu ZHIHUA, Director of the Kunshan Environmental Protection and Waste Management Bureau
&
Itee SONI and Heather KAYE,  founders of Finch Design. Shanghai. Film introduced by Director Haiyan Su.
Films:
“Wandering Plastic Bottles” / “Let Plastic Bottles No Longer Wander” (2018) Director: Haiyan Su. China. 5 minutes & 6 minutes

*”Urban Waste Dealing” (2018) *Director: Beijing Five Star Legend Cultural Media. 16 minutes

7-8pm WATER PAVILLION AND WATER PONDS. Duke Kunshan University

Special Event. FASHION/ART GALA.

With Kong NING (performance), Francis SOLLANO, DKU Undergraduate Fashion Designers, Models & the Dance Urban Troop . Teqiao LI (music) .

Monsoon III (2016) Director: Mike Olbinski. United States. 7 minutes 40

Water Lily: Birth of the Lotus (2015) Director: Justine Cunha, Alexandra Batina, Clementine Delcourt, Margaux Lahuppe, Pascal Miller. France. 8 minutes 29

8pm Auditorium AB. DKU.

Introduced by Professor Shu-chin TSUI. Asian and Cinema Studies, Bowdoin College & Professor Zhuoyi WANG, East Asian Languages and Literatures. Hamilton College. NY.
“Behemoth – A Mediation Between China’s Coal and Iron Industry” (2015) Director: Zhao Liang. China. 88 minutes


SATURDAY, APRIL 13

AUDITORIUM BALLROOM A BALLROOM B
10am-12pm “Water” (2018) Director: Xiaolin Xie. DKU. 4 minutes 31
&
“Albatross” (2017) Director: Chris Jordan. United States. 97 minutes                        &                                                                      Bird Window Collisions at Duke Kunshan University (2018) Director: Julie Mao. 5 minutes
“Light” (2018) Director: Hanwei Xu. DKU. 1 minutes 46
“Queen Without Land” (2018) Director: Asgeir Helgestad. Norway. 52 minutes
&
“Grazing the Amazon” (2018) Director: Marco Isensee e Sa. Brazil. 50 minutes
Talk by Wu WENGUANG. Memory Project.
“Dumb Men” (2018) Director: Hu Tao. China. 86 minutes
12pm-1pm “Round in Circles” (2015) Director: Cuhna Justine. France. 1 minute 04
&
“Monsoon (III)” (2016) Director: Mike Olbinski. United States. 7 minutes 40
“Primitives” (Nativos) (2017) Director: Edwin Manuel Noh Cen & Mauricion Andrada. Mexico. 7 minutes 43 “Konagxeka: The story of the Maxakali’s Flood” (2016) Director: Isael Maxakali e Charles Bicalho. Brazil. 12 minutes 50
Lunch Break. DKU Canteen
1pm-3pm Talk by Mao DA, Zero Waste Alliance. Living zero waste
Films:
“Bag It: Is Your Life Too Plastic” (2010) Director: Suzan Beraza. United States. 79 minutes
&
“Tadpole Tale: A Fantasy” (2017) Director: Laurids Andersen Sonne. United States. 14 minutes
“Kuwoi Wujan” (2018) Director: Jose Luis Cote. Colombia. 4 minutes 55
&
*“Self Portrait: Sphinx in 47 KM” (2017) Director: Zhang Mengqi. China. 93 minutes
Shorts (Re-run). “Junk” (2015) Director: Walter Tournier. Uruguay. 5 minutes
*“Homeland: Stories from Sanjiangyuan” (2018) Director: Liu Zhuang. China. 7 minutes 07
“Bery’s One Week” (2018) Director: Beryl Wang. DKU. Run time: 3 minutes 58
“Saving the Porpoise (Vaquita)” (2018) Director: Andrew Wegst. Mexico/China. 50 minutes
3pm-5pm Talk by Professor Kathinka FURST, IMEP & Professor Thomas JOHNSON “smog art”.

 *“Balloon Man Carbon Footprint” (2018) Directors: Catherine Brenner, Uros Osmokrovic, Xuchen Gong, Xinyue Lu, Weili Wu. DKU. 7 minutes 47
&
“Beijing Besieged by Waste” (2010) Director: Wang Jiuliang. China. 72 minutes

Shorts (re-run): “Pangolin” (2017) Directors: Katy Shuler, Nick Rogacki. United States. 15 minutes. English
“A Message to the Sea” (2012) Director: Basir Mahmood. Pakistan. 6 minutes
“Wandering Plastic Bottles” / “Let Plastic Bottles No Longer Wander” (2018). Haiyan Su. China. 5 minutes / 6 minutes 27
“Green Models: Building DKU Environmentally” (2018) Director: Cui (Janet) Liu, Julie Mao, Kelley Reardon. DKU, China. 10 minutes
&
“Manufactured Landscapes” (2007) Director: Jennifer Baichwal. China/Canada. 90 minutes
5pm-7pm Auditorium AB. DKU.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

With introduction by director Du YINAN, Zheng XINGYAO and Professor Dave HARE for Anote’s Ark                                                      *“Confession of Anthropocene-aholic” (2018) Director: Du Yinan. DKU, China. 4 minutes
*“The Long Goodbye” (2018) Director: Zheng Xingyao. China. 10 minutes
&
“Anote’s Ark” (2018) Director: Matthieu Rytz. Canada. 77 minutes

“Human Wildlife Conflict: India and China” (2018) Director: Kelley Reardon. DKU, China, 5 minutes 23
Shorts (Re-run): *“The Glories of the Minya Konga” (2018) Director: Dong Lei.  China. 22 minutes
B(2015) Director: Cuhna Justine. France. 1 minute 04
“Primitives” (Nativos) (2017) Director: Edwin Manuel Noh Cen & Mauricion Andrada. Mexico. 7 minutes 43
“Konagxeka: The story of the Maxakali’s Flood” (2016) Director: Isael Maxakali e Charles Bicalho. Brazil. 12 minutes 50                                  Water Lily: Birth of the Lotus (2015) Director: Justine Cunha, Alexandra Batina, Clementine Delcourt, Margaux Lahuppe, Pascal Miller. France. 8 minutes 29
Special Presentation: DKU STUDENT SHORTS: (non in competition)
“Water Pollution” (2018) Directors: Kanfu Chen, Melissa Schirmer, Yuting Sun, Ruiwen Wu. Run time: 5 minutes 48
“Campus Recycling Policies” (2018) Directors: Vanessa Hu, Cecilia Yao, Aaron Tang.
Run time: 6 minutes 54
“An Un-Helpful Guide to Living a Green Life at DKU” (2018) Directors: Shelley Jiang, Yetta He, Victor Lee, Ryan He. 8 minutes 07
“Surrounding the Lake” (2018) Director: Cui Liu. 3 minutes 44
“A Reflection on City Zoo” (2018) Director: Wen Zhang. 7 minutes 03
“A Brief Research on Water Pollution” (2018) Directors: Haitong Lin, Wenjie Zhou, Yuqing Liu, Yutong Lu, Ziting Huang. 7.40
“In Seach for Water” (2018) Director: Tianqui Wu. 7 minutes 50
“A Christmas Gift” (2018) Director: 汤澜. 2 minutes 47
7pm-9pm Auditorium AB. DKU.

“A Dream of Myanmar” (2018) Director: Marta Trela. Germany. 4 minutes
&
*“Investigating My Father” (2016) Director: Wu Wenguang. China. 80 minutes

SUNDAY, APRIL 14

9:00 – 12:00pm
DKU GREEN RUN event will be held take place at the perimeter of the DKU. The perimeter of the campus is approximately 1.5 km or 1 mile, and the run will involve 3 laps totaling in 4.5 km or 3 miles. Runners can sign for 1.5 or 4.5 km run. Registration on site starting at 9:00am.
Jinxi Ancient Water Town. Kunshan. Field trip (for DKU students, faculty, staff and families. Limited space by registration.
(2PM) Buses depart from DKU to Jinxi Ancient Water Town. AB Building lot.
3pm JINXI ANCIENT WATER TOWN AWARD Ceremony. POINTS CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART, Jinxi Ancient Water Town.
Followed by a reception (by invitation only).                                FASHION GALA.  Kong Ning, Francis Sollano, DKU Undergraduate Designers, models, music artist and dancers.                           Screening of Finalist Short Films.
3:30pm-4:45pm JINXI ANCIENT WATER TOWN AWARD. Scavenger Hunt.  Several locations JINXI ANCIENT WATER TOWN (follow the clues).
5:30. Buses will depart to DKU.