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| TICKET PRICES: (Dollar conversion US$1.00 = P56.00) Student Programs = Student � P10 / Adult � P20 Special Programs = Student � P40 / Adult � P50 Opening & Closing Films = Student � P80 / Adult � P100 (Special Rate for eKsperim[E]nto E-group Members = P50.00 only � Only for Opening & Closing Films) Main & Special Programs = Student � P40 / Adult � P50 WHERE TO BUY TICKETS? Box Office Counter during the Main Festival Run at the Venue (NCCA) ADVANCE TICKETS: For Opening & Closing Nights � Call 5272207 / Text 09193307311 ______________________________________________________________________________________________ March 12, 2004, Friday 1:00pm to 3:00pm - FREE SCREENING International Jury Film: TUHOG by Jeffrey Jeturian (Philippines) 120 min 3:00pm to 5:00pm - FREE SCREENING CHANCE by Amber Benson (USA) 90 min CHANCE is a screwball romantic comedy about one nutty girl�s search for Mr. Right in all the wrong places. Using a non-linear framework, CHANCE explores the inner workings of a young woman�s mind through a patchwork of flashbacks, straight to camera monologue and complete surreality. 6:00pm OPENING OF ART EXHIBIT and NEW MEDIA EXHIBIT (In Competition, NEW MEDIA) 7:00pm to 9:30pm OPENING NIGHT / OPENING FILMS Approximate Running Time: 115 min Shorts: Revolucion (Revolution) by Martin Rosete (Spain) Achtung � Respect (Concentration Chair) by Michael Brynntrup (Germany) Feature: THE CHAMPAGNE CLUB by Joao Machado (Brazil / USA) �Four aristocrats decide to escape to a secluded, exotic villa for an undetermined period of time to break on through to the other side of art. They will do this by indulging to excess in the finest of food, drink, drugs and sex, lowering themselves to the point of filthy beasts and ultimately becoming the mad artists they so desire to be. A perfect mix of �American Psycho� with �Salo,120 Days of Sodom� with its own ideas in the forefront, �The Champagne Club� goes from nasty to nastier to downright gruesome. But as far out of control as this film gets, it never goes too far for its own good. It certainly stands right at the line and threatens to step over it constantly, but by not doing so, Joao Machado doesn�t lose his audience. Check it out with your favorite drink or drug of choice. � � Film Threat Magazine March 13, 2004, Saturday 1:00pm to 3:00pm Main Program 1: Visual Symphonies Approximate running time: 40 min Y Si Se Perdiera El Mundo (If The World Went Lost) Manuel Trujillo (Mexico) 10 min. 16mm, 2002 A man tired of his situation and his life changes everything for a �simple� life. I May Be Malaysian But I Carry A Big Stick Zan Azlee (Malaysia) 2.06 min. Digital Video, 2003 A tribute to former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahatir Mohammad. Inches Albert Vijendran (Malaysia) 9 min. Digital Video, 2003 A confined individual undergo�s a psychological confrontation with the atmosphere at the space. Quallen (Jellyfish) Damon Lee (Germany) 8 min. Digital Video, 2003 Jellyfish are shown in varying altered colors and sppeds accompanied by amusical score that consists of modified street noise. The result is a film that reflects Space films from the 50�s, but also my personal recollections of a vacation I had in Izu, Japan, where I observed and was observed by hundreds of Jellyfish as I floated in the water. Sinfonia Insania 2003 (Insane Symphony) Manuel Trujillo (Mexico) 10 min. 16mm, 2003 The inner world of two characters on the edge. --with� Main Program 2: Bittersweet Candymint Approximate Running Time: 45 min Karaoke Man Felino Dolloso (Australia) 12 min. Digital Video, 2003 Ben has two problems. It seems everyone he meets stereotypes him to be someone that he isn�t. Oh and the other problem, his doctor just told him he has two month to live. This is a story about love, sex, death, stereotypes, laughter, tears, library, and a karaoke bar all in tem minutes. Ipanima Lipsynch by Michael Brynntrup (Germany) La Lampada Di Arlecchino (-Una Commediola Amara-) (Harlequine�s Lamp (-A Bitter Comedy-)) Giuseppe Tilli (Italy / France) 7.14 min. Digital Video, 2003 Harlequin and Zani are two characters of �commedia dell�arte�, traditional and popular Italian comedy whose most famous author is Carlo Goldoni (XVIII Century). �Goldoni� is also a popular Italian word for �condoms�. Zani is working in the mistress field and finds an object that resembles Alladin�s lmap. But it is Harlequin�s Lamp. Harlequin builds up two opposite parallel realities for Zani and his Mistress to Benefit from this situation. Dedicated to all the Harlequins of the world. Juan Orasan Geraldine Borja Flores (Philippines) 9 min. 35mm, 2003 Juan Dela Cruz is an officer worker who doesn�t like going to work. He hates the bundy clock in their office because he feels that it is controlling his life. One day, he decides to confront his enemy. You Are A Monkey John Burns (UK) 6.5 min. Digital Video, 2003 You are a monkey. That�s why you pick your nose, that�s why you eat fruit, and that�s why you have those funny dreams about falling out of things. Popiahs, Murtabaks And A Patriotic Donkey Zan Azlee (Malaysia) 3.39 min. Digital Video, 2003 It is a short video-essay which pokes fun at the �kiasu�ness (gung-ho) attitude of Malaysians in always wanting to have the tallest building in the world, the biggest shopping centers in the region, frying the world�s biggest murtabak (a local version of an omelette) and so on and so on. 3:00pm to 5:00pm FOLLOW THE LEADER by Regan Payne (Canada) 120 min 5:00pm to 7:00pm Special Program from orcglobe / Detroit curated by odie rynell cash Video art is a wide field of practice. For most of us interested in and producing video art, video represents a unique window to look into both our present day culture and also examines the counter-cultural and artistic world of our time. Post/Neo-video artists, usually artist born after 1962, are producing work created from a *�privileged viewpoint� due to our influences of commercial media, modern film and most recently (i.e the last 25 years) music videos, as well as, the impact of our predecessors (Acconci, Iimura, Oppenheim, Graham, Jonas and others) who had the initial notion to experiment with the medium and have changed the way video art is produced and viewed today. This programme, which orcglobe/Detroit is pleased to submit to The 4th Annual eKsperim[E]nto Film & Video Festival will examine a variety of ideas and emotions by five (5) artist centered around the idea of the contemporary urban landscape and contemporay living. The artist included in orcglobe/Detroit submission (in order of appearance on video) are: Julie Meitz, odie rynell cash, Kelly Parker, Richard Reeves and Matthew Noel-Tod. The single thing that unifies this diverse group of artists and their brand of contemporary art is that their work undertakes a different perspective on it�s possiblities of structure under the associations of industrialist viewpoints and/or industrialist living essentially reflecting on it�s banality. * when I say privileged viewpoint I�m not speaking in the concept of class systems but that most of our generation and beyond were raised during the middle stages of television/film and technology allowing us to view things in different perspectives. Julie Mietz video practices which includes digital video, staged scenarios as well as footage recording happenings and performances are all incorporated in her video �Up/Down� a story of a dead-pan mime, expressing 'up and down' emotions like a campy minimalist dancer, is colorfully blended into a kaleidoscope world of digital-impressionism. �transpolitics�(odie rynell cash) offers fragments of narrative that it explores briefly and then leaves behind through a single shot of traffic and a passing train in Detroit that is edited into variuos seqments through a chance determination of edits with text to question the American postion in relation to global advancement. The video is edited to Music for Changes IV, by John Cage. Kelly Parker�s video �She Moves Me� (2002) gives a voyeuristic and objective perspective as it moves through the home of the characters in the video painting a extensive picture of dysfunctional relationship of a mother and daughter with an ending that focuses on the extremes in their relationship through the use of banal objects and ingredients. Richard Reeves gives us a partial glimpse into the present state of urban American society with �Red�. Reeves states �The video is, on its simplest level, an edgy arrangement of reds with no more meaning than the music that accompanies it. This speaks to the isolation associated with the main character in the work who is ignored and bumped in his pursuit in the city. He continues �On the level that requires the most faith, �Red� is a message conveyed by its contents and their composition within the video frame�. This speaks to the boundaries of cities and disassociation or inclusion with a cities frame work. In �Jetz Im Kino� (2003), Matthew Noel-Tod takes a city enclosed in a single structure as a platform for several interconnected bodies of work. The cinematic structure is modelled on the sprawling city landscape of modern Berlin and focuses on the urban exterior as theatrical space and the movement through this environment as a montage encompasseing residential, retail, manufacturing, commercial industry, government and entertainment in a solitary focus on the condition of mankind. For more information please visit http://www.geocities.com/orcglobe/ekspartist.html Up Down Julie Meitz (USA) 5 min. video, 2002 A dead-pan mime, expressing 'up and down' emotions like a campy minimalist dancer, is colorfully blended into a kaleidoscope world of digital-impressionism Transpolitics odie rynell cash (USA) 12.22 min. video, 2003 This video installation work explores the concept of modern movement and politics in an extended edit of an ordianry video shot of traffic and industry along a sparse section of the City of Detroit. Edited to accompany John Cage's 'Music For Changes IV' (1951) the video serves as a metaphor to address the continuum of political activity within daily life, the place of mankind within it and how fragile the concept is when applied to current western politcal thought. She Moves Me Kelly Parker (USA) 9.52 min. video, 2002 She Moves Me requires the viewer to sit through a series of rather cliche dramatic episodes as a daughter struggles with her relationship to her mother. The pay off in the end comes in the form of a "climactic" duel, giving the daughter her sense of self. JETZT IM KINO Matthew Noel-Tod (UK) 11.4 min. video, 2003 JETZT IM KINO (literally, "Now in Cinema") brings together adapted text from Laszlo Moholy Nagy's 'Painting, Photography, Film', Rudolf Arnheim's "Film as Art', David Cooper's polemical psyschology book ' The Grammar of Living' and writings from around Rainer Werner Fassbinder's film 'The Marriage of Maria Braun' into a hybrid narrative floating across the cityscape of modern Berlin Red Richard Reeves (USA) 8.42 min. video, 2002 A seqment from a larger work titled 'Red, Yellow, Green ...Sign of the Times' the video uses the color red to express the emotion of the urban condition. Music by Kelsey Vaughn Thomas --with-- Special Program: JUKEBOX presented by EXPERIMENTA, Australia curated by Liz Hughes Approximate Running Time: 20 minutes Beauty Kit Pleix (France) 2.17 min. 2002 This series of four seductive and shocking advertisements predict a terrifying future where plastic surgery is becoming normal even for little girls. Using slick marketing and sophisticated technology to sell rhinoplasty and brest augmentatoin, it ironically advises that kids should no longer wait for mother nature. Plaid: Itsu Pleix (France) 3.3 min. 2002 This work is a parable of our consumer society whose obsessions with sex and the bottom line are spinning out of control. The endless possibilities of scientific discovery send the cast on an ecstatic journey to the limits of reality. The result is wild corporate gluttony, where bigger is better, and the boundaries between aggressive business and carnal pleasure are blurred. You Are Here Bull.Miletic (Australia) 5.41 min. 2001 You are here depicts Death Valley�s Racetrack dry lakebed, where rocks weighing hundreds of pounds inexplicably move, sometimes several hundred feet across the surface of dry silt. The work questions our true position in the world and our understanding of nature through scientific explanations. See Saw David McDowell (Australia) 2.49 min. 2002 This animation alludes to a sense of loss of one's bearings in the world, or loss of the ability to interpret those bearings. It suggests a condition of being on a passage, but a passage during which the comprehension that the passage itself has a destination has collapsed: the passenger becomes prisoner of the passage. S-Crash Lindsay Cox and Victor Holder (Australia) 3 min. 2002 In this split-screen comic scenario the inescapable nature of noise has horrendously funny consequences. An urban battle between human and technology ensues when a paper thin wall between the cramped apartments of an ambitious DJ and his irritable neighbour reverberates with loud repetitive beats. 9 to 5 City Shunt Michael Eyre (Australia) 2.25 min. 2002 A glimpse at the drudgery of urban life. Programmed by the promises of the corporate world, these automatons in suits are herded through a multi-coloured cityscape with unthinking obedience. --with� The Case of Wilkie Duran Monte: Toxic Chemical Victim by Minnie Crouse / 18 min 7:00pm to 9:30pm IN COMPETITION, MAIN � ANIMATION Brand New Triathlon by Rick Raxlen (Canada) Contamination by Carl Stevenson (UK) Hello by Jonathan Nix (Australia) Rude Roll by Rick Raxlen (Canada) The Wound by Ebba Erikzon (UK) --with-- Philippine 3D Animation Program: ANIMeKs 30 min March 14, 2004, Sunday � NO SCREENINGS |
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