| Details | Set during China’s Warring States Period (475–221 BCE), Zhang Yimou’s Hero is a sumptuous swordplay epic that was inspired by an actual assassination attempt on the Qin Emperor. After the film screens at the Park Up DC drive-in theater on October 26, learn about this fascinating period of Chinese history through its politics, art, apparel, and weaponry, including swords and calligraphic inscriptions from the collections of the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art.
Tom Vick, curator of film at the Freer and Sackler, will moderate a discussion with Yan Weitian, predoctoral fellow specializing in Chinese calligraphy at the Freer and Sackler; George Washington University historian of China Dr. Eric Schluessel; and Textile Museum curator Lee Talbot, a specialist in textiles from the Warring States Period. This event is copresented with the George Washington University Confucius Institute. Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hero-film-screening-panel-discussion-tickets-125376672001
Zoom Access: https://zoom.us/j/95253439466 |
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