Keith Kei-Kong Lock, a filmmaker born in Toronto, will give a lecture at the Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library Film Lecture Series on January 19, 2011. He will screen and discuss three of his films - Tough Bananas, The Road Chosen: The Lem Wong Story, and his new feature film The Ache. He will also use excerpts from other films to illustrate challenges faced by filmmakers telling stories about Chinese Canadians.

1. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19, 2011
2:30 — 5:00PM
Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library
Film Lecture Series
Keith Kei-Kong Lock (駱 奇 光)
Chair: Dr. Helen Xiaoyan Wu
Born in Toronto, Keith Lock holds an M.F.A. degree in film from York University. His
student film, Flights of Frenzy, won the Best Super 8 Award at the UNESCO 10th Muse
International, Amsterdam, 1969. Credited by Cinemaya magazine as one of the first
Asian Canadian Filmmakers, he was a founding member and the first chair of the To-
ronto Filmmaker’s Co-op, which later morphed into LIFT. He has worked as Claude Ju-
tra’s assistant as well as Michael Snow’s cinematographer on a number of works.
Lock has presented three films at the Toronto International Film Festival, including two
feature length films; the experimental feature, Everything Everywhere Again Alive
(1975), which was presented in the Retrospective of Canadian Cinema in 1984, and the
dramatic feature, Small Pleasures (1993). His half-hour film, A Brighter Moon, received
a Gemini Award Nomination for Best Short Drama in 1987. Keith was the first recipient
of the Chinese Canadian National Council’s Media Applause Award in 1998. His televi-
sion documentary, The Road Chosen: The Lem Wong Story, received the NFB Innover-
sity Conference Award, 2002 and his short film, The Dreaming House (2005), received
the Best GTA Filmmaker Award at the Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival.
He has recently completed his 2nd dramatic feature film The Ache (2009).
Tough Bananas, The
In his EAL lecture, Keith will screen and talk about his films,
Road Chosen: The Lem Wong Story and his brand new feature film, The Ache.
He will be using short excerpts from other films to illustrate some of the issues and
challenges of filmmakers when telling the stories about the Chinese in Canada.
CURRENT PERIDOICAL AREA, EAST ASIAN LIBRARY / 8TH FL., ROBARTS LIBRARY / 130 ST. GEORGE ST.
Free Admission. Limited seats available, please RSVP to Lucy Gan by email
(lucy.gan@utoronto.ca) or by phone at 416‐978‐1025.

2. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2010
2:30 - 5:00PM
Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library
Film Lecture Series
Richard Fung
Chair: Dr. Helen Xiaoyan Wu
Richard Fung is a Trinidad-born, Toronto-based video artist and writer. His
single channel and installation works have been widely presented interna-
tionally and his essays have been published in numerous journals and an-
thologies. He is the co-author, with Monika Kin Gagnon, of a book of inter-
views, 13: Conversations on Art and Cultural Race Politics, published in Eng-
lish and French by Artexte. Richard teaches in the Faculty of Art at the On-
tario College of Art & Design. The films he will screen in the lecture are Rex
vs. Singh (2008) and Sea in the Blood (2000).
Rex vs. Singh (2008, 30 minutes)
A collaboration with John Greyson and Ali Kazimi, Rex vs. Singh re-examines a 1915 sodomy
case involving two Sikh men entrapped by Vancouver police. Techniques from documentary,
narrative and experimental cinema are brought together to mine the intersection of racism
and homophobia a year after the notorious Komogata Maru incident.
Sea in the Blood (2000, 24 minutes)
Sea in the Blood is an autobiographical video about love and loss, intertwining two relation-
ships (sister and lover) and two diseases of the blood (thallasemia and HIV/AIDS).
CURRENT PERIDOICAL AREA, EAST ASIAN LIBRARY / 8TH FL., ROBARTS LIBRARY / 130 ST. GEORGE ST.
Free Admission. Limited seats available, please RSVP to Lucy Gan by email
(lucy.gan@utoronto.ca) or by phone at 416‐978‐1025.