Richard I. Suchenski is founder and director of the Center for Moving Image Arts (CMIA) and assistant professor of film and electronic arts at Bard College. His academic work focuses on the development of cinematic modernism internationally and on the relationship between film and the other arts. The retrospective Also Like Life: The Films of Hou Hsiao-hsien, which he has organized in conjunction with this book, will be launched at the Austrian Film Museum and will travel to major cities around the world through 2015.