EDC screening of Snow Leopard
DIRECTED BY PEMA TSEDEN
MARCH 7, 2025
RECEPTION: 4 pm - 5 pm
Screening & Discussion: 5 pm - 7pm
Ethnographic Design Co.Lab (EDC) and Professors Cymene Howe and Huatse Gyal from Rice University’s Department of Anthropology invite the members of the department to attend the screening and discussion of the late Tibetan filmmaker Pema Tseden's film, Snow Leopard (2023).
Snow Leopard has been described as "a magical, memorable, visually stunning film... yet another exquisite drama by Pema Tseden (sadly his final film) and an empathetic portrait of the modern dynamics affecting the pastoral society of Tibet." The film serves as both a creative visual ethnography of human and nonhuman relations and an intimate exploration of the complex relationships between Tibetan pastoralists, Chinese state law and snow leopards.
PEMA TSEDEN
Internationally renowned filmmaker Perna Tseden is remembered as the finest Tibetan filmmaker to date. Professor Ying Qian, a scholar of cinema and media at Columbia University beautifully and powerfully summarizes Pema's work: "Perna was this kind of artist who would keep you wondering what he'd make next - he grew in front of your eyes, calmly but dazzlingly. He had a freedom in him, a freedom to make space and connections, say a million of things with one image, a freedom to be quiet, persistent, sorrowful, a freedom to play and to love. He was such a leader in the Tibetan speaking cultural sphere, and I feel so sad that we lost him."
Pema Tseden's Life before Cinema