| 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 15, 2004, Monday 10:00am to 12:00pm Docu Program 1: Blurry Memories My Favorite Things Bob Paris (USA) 3.4 min. Digital Video, 2003 An American general�s casual declaration of his favorite weapon calls forth the smooth, comforting voice of Perry Como singing My Favorite Things and the surreal use of animation in TV news� war coverage. The result is a disturbing meditation on America�s perspective toward its distant war against Iraq. Transactions Carla Herrera-Prats (USA / Mexico) 27 min. Digital Video, 2003 This video puts together several stories narrated by Mexican students of Masters degrees that have decided to move to Mexico City to United States in order to accomplish their education. This piece challenges the traditional use of the interview as a strategy to document. The seven persons that appear in this movie freely talk to the camera, without having to answer any specific question concerning their experiences. They also individually chose their frame and location. The edition and subtitles of the piece built a commentary on the relationship between the United States and Mexico. Infiniteness Linus Chung (Malaysia) 10 min. Digital Video, 2003 Sept. 11th, Afghanistan, Iraq�with the current world climate, I jumped into the Substation�s EMERGENCY FILMMAKING PROJECT. I wanted to do a project about the WAR with gusto. I had so many fanciful and whimsical ideas about how to realize a video about war. Then my grandfather�s words came upon me. Suddenly, I realized� do I have a right to comment about war? With that, I switched gears to making a film that will juxtapose the WAR against my life and what�s it like living at a world with war but not necessarily being in the perils of it. Resisting expressing sentimentality just for the sake of sentimentality and arresting my youthful carefree thoughts about how exciting the progression of the war actually is� I just set myself to read up, think about and dream of the war� summing everything up with a simple film. Rasstrel (Shooting) Mikhail Degtiar (Russia) 18.30 min. Video, Betacam SP, 2003 The documentary deals with the problem of the Holocaust. The Second World War was finished more than 60 years ago but many victims of the fascism are not buried up to now. On December 1941 more than 4,500 Russian Jews were shot by German troops in the city of Yalta in Crimea. For many years the human rests of the victims were not buried. 1:00pm to 3:00pm Docu Program 2: Eccentrics Approximate running time: 45 min Armor of God Brett Ingram & Jim Haverkamp (USA) �Armor of God� is centered around a Clang Quartet performance and features Irving speaking in voice � over his personal and musical philosophies. The viewer also glimpse him at his day job as a receptionist at a modeling agency and at home playing the drums in his garage. The striking visual style of the film incorporates slow motion and time � lapse photography, color and black and white juxtapositions, and performance and verite footage. The film can be described as a portrait of one man�s artistic mindset, sometimes bizarre and unsettling, but ultimately revealing a fascinating and multi � layered core. The Black White And Grey Zan Azlee (Malaysia) 13 min. Digital Video, 2003 It is a chat with random people in a public bus. The people selected range from immigrants to locals and the topic they talk about include police harassment, Malaysian politics, the Iraq war and sexual preferences. English Eccentrics II Gongsun Hai (UK) 10 min. Digital Video, 2003 Performance artist Ivan Inversion is endeavoring to bring the wonders of standing on one�s head to the attention of the masses. He plays guitar and sings whilst dangling upside � down from a lamppost in London�s Covent Garden district. His audience give their reactions, he explains the logic underlying his performance. Johnny Dullstar Bob Paris & Charlie LeDuff (USA) 6.4 min. Digital Video, 2003 A grim look at the myth of Hollywood, Johnny Dullstar is an experimental portrait of a one-legged man who shines the star along Hollywood Boulevard. --with-- Docu Program 3: Whispers My Heart Whispers My Heart Eleanor Low & Linus Chung (Malaysia) 50 min. Digital Video, 2003 It�s about Zach, a man struggling to build a career and a life in the unforgiving city. Zach also has to care for his mentally handicapped sister, Annie. It doesn�t help matters that his girlfriend feels that he should be focusing more on his career and continuously nags him about the fact, becoming much of a nuisance herself. Mien, Annie�s daytime caretaker, feels differently and admires Zach for all the care he showers upon Annie; secretly holding an unrequited love for him. In midst of all this, what about Annie? What emotions or thoughts of love does she harbor within? 3:00pm to 5:00p, SOAP by b-side TV (Italy) 60 min --with-- Sowing Seeds by Avic Ilagan (Philippines) 15min 5:00pm to 7:00pm COUNTRY IN FOCUS : INDONESIA Curated by Edwin Less words, strong in visuals�.this would be a viewer�s initial reaction after reading the program and seeing the works on screen. So it would be apt to provide less words as introduction to this program�for the very first time, eKsperim[E]nto Film & Video Festival focuses its spotlight on Indonesia, a country less known to Asians as a good source of short works but this presumption would be challenged by this wonderful set of films and videos. Light, Poem Faozan Rizal (Indonesia) 3.5 min. 16mm, color, 2002 Let this poem guide you to the beauty of pure cinematography. The filmmaker pushed the limit of his unlimited bolex camera. C�est Le Cinema Faozan Rizal (Indonesia) 1.5 min. 16mm, color, no sound, 2002 This is our cinema, not their cinema!!! A Very Slow Breakfast Edwin (Indonesia) 5.40 min. 16mm, color, sound, 2002 A deep exploration to the boring life of being a family. Urban Space Edwin (Indonesia) 5.4 min. miniDV, color, sound, 2003 Jakarta is an urban space. This video is trying to explain the meaning of �urban space�, based on a children�s dictionary. Are You Close Enough Tintin Wulia (Indonesia) 4.4 min. miniDV, color, sound, 2000 A monk is traveling far in his mind. Is he close enough to the place he longs to be? This experimental travel documentary is a showcase of a spiritual journey. Ketok Tintin Wulia (Indonesia) 6 min. miniDV, color, sound, 2002 An experimental documentary that plays around the onomatopoeic word, Ketok. How Close By Faozan Rizal (Indonesia) 5.3 min. miniDV, color, sound, 2003 Inspired by Tintin Wulia�s �Are You Close Enough�, a man sleeping in his journey is dreaming of a city. Is Singapore real? --with� Batumbuhay: A Pepe Smith Rockumentary by Roxlee (Philippines) 60min 7:00pm to 9:30pm Special Program: NOCTURNES A �Foreign Matter� Tour presented by the Antimatter Festival of Underground Short Film & Video curated by Todd Eacrett and Deborah De Boer The Nocturne program eight works all referencing the darker sides of existence-from madness and decay to gothic horror and suburban malaise. Unifying narrative themes of obsession, anxiety and alienation are explored almost entirely without dialogue or voice-over, making this program especially accessible for foreign audiences. Boogyman Brian Joseph Davis (Canada) 4.3 min. video 2002 Two children communicate with Satan using their Lite Brite. Boogyman skewers superstitious fears by using adult actors to mime the everyday behaviour of normal children to recreate the visual conventions and effects of horror films like The Exorcist. Argent Liquide (Cash Flow) Shaun Andrews (Canada) 11.8 min. 16mm, 2002 Argent Liquide is a darkly comic, expressionistic journey into the inner psychological workings of you and your local automated teller. Through deft use of irony and metaphor, the film raises timely questions about money, technology and surveillance within a highly commercialized society while exploring the sadomasochistic and narcoticizing relationship we form with money and the system it represents. Nocturne Jay Johnson (Canada) 7.15 min. video, 2001 Inspired by The Wax Dolls of Lotte Pritzel by Rilke, Nocturne recounts a melancholic tale of magic and metaphor as seen through the eyes of a small androgynous doll. Resolving Power Fran�ois Miron (Canada) 18 min, 35mm on video, 2001 "A dreamy and beautifully shot film that entrances the audience with its atmospheric sound design (by Helios Creed, Peter Namlook, Jason Martz) and stream of consciousness images. Starring Montreal comic Rick Trembles, who also provides animated vignettes, and marking a more live-action turn for experimental film staple Francois Miron, Resolving Power is a film about obsession, and the love for electricity and celluloid." - Karim Hussain, Fantasia Film Festival Angor Jason Arsenault (Canada) 3.4 min, video, 2002 Set in the abandoned shower rooms of an old Montreal pool, Angor conveys a powerful sense of alienation, anxiety and incipient menace. L�stmord Gwynne Fulton (Canada) 10.5 min, 16mm, 2002 An experimental psycho-horror film about a deranged hospital chambermaid's nightmarish vision of her repressed fantasies. Shot in black and white and optically printed on colour stock, L�stmord is a carnival of the perverse where sexual paranoia triggers fears of infection and sickness as punishment for moral and sexual transgression. Le Viaduc d'Or Clark Nikolai (Canada) 3.42 min. video, 2002 By day, a dumpster diver finds a mannequin to love, a harassed woman puts on a male disguise and a drug-addicted hustler scores. By night, their diurnal lives are forgotten when they become whoever they want to be, online. House Brian Joseph Davis (Canada) 18 min. video, 2003 An extraordinary filmic implosion of Poe's Fall of the House of Usher, set in a Canadian suburban nowhere. March 16, 2004, Tuesday 10:00am to 12:00pm Main Program 3: Portraiture Approximate Running Time: 90 min E.K.G.1.0.1. (A Self-Portrait In Broadcast And Artistic Media) by Michael Brynntrup (Germany) Once Upon A Crime by Oscar Ho John Chan (UK) 1:00pm to 3:00pm DISCOVERY FILMMAKER SERIES: MANNY MONTELIBANO My Way by Manny Montelibano (Philippines) Yoyo by Manny Montelibano (Philippines) A.M. by Manny Montelibano (Philippines) Muging Sa Laot by Manny Montelibano (Philippines) CR by Manny Montelibano (Philippines) DISCOVERY STUDENT FILMMAKER SERIES : MARK YLAGAN Armor of Dawn by Mark Ylagan (Philippines) Basketbot by Mark Ylagan (Philippines) Pusakal by Mark Ylagan (Philippines) MTV by Mark Ylagan (Philippines) A High Form of Life by Mark Ylagan (Philippines 3:00pm to 5:00pm FILIPINO FOCUS : MMA STUDENTS OF DLSU-CSB STUDENT 3D ANIMATION Curated by Daniel Enriquez Presented by Multi-Media Arts Department of DLSU-College of Saint Benilde Canim1 Final Project by Bruce Rafael O. Casanova (Philippines) 2Fast2Furious by Joyce Revalyn M. Serrano (Philippines) Untitled 1 by Paulo Dario, Mark Ylagan & Cedric Czar Flores (Philippines) Ultraman Vs. Tower Steel Monster by Paula Chavez & Gerard Crusado (Philippines) Getter Robo by Vincent Cheng & Me-An Domingo (Philippines) Untitled 2 by Jonathan Evangelista, Dante Tingson, Mark Ylagan & G.P. Togle (Philippines) Boxing by Ja Coching (Philippines) Wired Mind by anonymous (Philippines) Untitled 3 by anonymous (Philippines) My Pink Pussycat by Nicky Sonosa (Philippines) Untitled 4 by Mark Ylagan (Philippines) A High Form Of Life by Mark Ylagan (Philippines) Dookie by Gabriel Haresco (Philippines) The Power of Fight by anonymous (Philippines) Soda Pop by anonymous (Philippines) Viro & Wiz by Brenda Amante & Gail Fojas (Philippines) Memories by Lim Rudyard Lester (Philippines) Untitled 5 by Vijay Kumar Sharma (Philippines) The Jabroni Dance by Nemesio Barrameda Jr. (Philippines) Untitled 6 by Jojo Villena (Philippines) Pusakal (Pusang Kalye) by Mark Ylagan (Philippines) 5:00pm to 7:00pm IN COMPETITION, NEO-VISIONS / STUDENT CATEGORY (PHILIPPINES) The Cage by Jerome Cruz (DLSU � College of St. Benilde) Crux Ansata by Nani Naguit & Pao Pangan (University of the Philippines � Diliman) Gaway by Charms Palacios (DLSU � College of St. Benilde) Pagkatapos ng Ulan by F.L.Brillantes (Silliman University) Tuliro by Aris De Guzman (Colegio de San Juan de Letran) IN COMPETITION, AUTOBIOGRAPHY, NEO-VISIONS / STUDENT CATEGORY (PHILIPPINES) Ako 1 by Ryan Vergara (DLSU � College of St. Benilde) Ako 2 by Ean Mayor (DLSU � College of St. Benilde) Ako 3 by Norman Dellosa (DLSU � College of St. Benilde) Sulyap by (DLSU � College of St. Benilde) Sayang by Joubert Tan (DLSU � College of St. Benilde) 7:00pm to 9:30pm IN COMPETITION, MAIN � SHORT FICTION Argent Liquide (Cash Flow) by Shaun Andrews (Canada) The �Bathroom� Agreement by Jenny Andrews (USA) Dansport by Mariel C. Icban & Carmi G. Raymundo (Philippines) Ochki (The Eyeglasses) by Irina Sitkova (Russia) Revolucion (Revolution) by Martin Rosete (Spain) Timbang Lata (Tin Pail) by Herbert Navasca (Philippines) March 17, 2004, Wednesday 10:00am to 12:00pm Student Program 1: Egocentric-esque Approximate Running Time: 30 min When students go out of their way to tell a chapter from their lives, they don�t only speak about their experiences. They also manipulate the medium in order for them to get their messages across with style. Four student autobiographies from students of the De La Salle University � College of Saint Benilde stand out for their individualities and their eclectic approaches in telling simple segments their daily living. �Culture Shock� will put a smile to your face as a rich girl struggles to discover the harsh �simplicities� of life. �Hilig� selfishly tells what a young Filipino-Chinese guy loves to do everyday of his life. �Silent Treatment�, on the other hand, is a lazy and rather effective attempt to expose one�s life by using old video footages of the filmmaker when he was in his elementary years. �Who I Am� ends the �Egocentric-esque� program by coming up with an odd autobiography that will either fascinate or scare audiences. Culture Shock Regina Silva (Philippines) Hilig Timothy Chan (Philippines) Silent Treatment Armandleo Esca�o (Philippines) Who I Am Dean Mark Enoza (Philippines) --with-- Taga-Isla (The Islanders) by Miranamedina (Philippines) 97 min 1:00pm to 3:00pm IMITATIONS OF LIFE by Mike Hoolboom (Canada) 75 min �It may indeed be questioned whether we have any memories at all from our childhood: memories relating to our childhood may be all that we posses. Our childhood memories show us our earliest years not as they were, but as they appeared at the later periods when the memories are aroused. In these periods of arousal, the childhood memories did not, as people are accustomed to say, emerge, they were formed at that time. And a number of motives, with no concern for historical accuracy, had a part in forming them, as well as in the selection of the memories themselves.� --Freud This ten � part video strains childhood through a history of reproduction, culling pictures from the Lumieres to the present day in order to find the future in our past. Here are children of pictures, as pictures, the ones who will walk on our helped shape their lives, and their ability to grieve those no longer around to share them. 3:00pm to 5:00pm Main Program 4: Dimensions Approximate Running Time: 60 min Marvelous Creatures Wago Kreider (USA) 4 min. Digital Video, 2003 Marvelous Creatures is an experimental video that explores the uncanny correlation of erotic a Lid destructive impulses. From the taxidermied bestiary of a natural history museum to the lifelike waxworks that haunt our pop culture memories, the convulsive beauty of animals oscillates between plenitude and punishment, attraction and repulsion, life and death. In a series of photographic shocks that flash an image of the fixed explosive, they bare witness to a primordial trauma, a confusion between the animate and the inanimate, the biological and the mechanical, Eros and Thanatos. Collective desires and fears are hypnotically juxtaposed in a rhythmic montage. The strange mass popularity of wax museums and natural history museum dioramas is explored through an editing strategy that transfixes the viewer's attention. The flickering progression of pop culture icons, animal behavior, and amorous gestures from classic film noir creates a nervous anticipation that builds to a devastating climax. Sigh by Ann Steuernagel (USA) Weapons of Mass Destruction Walter Forsberg & Matthew Rankin (Canada) Digital Video, 2003 The tape of terror was seized from a private residence in Winnipef, Canada, in the eye of war in Iraq, shedding new light on the international strategies of evil. Revealing images of American Journalist being subjected to Lethal experiments, training tactics of exotic bird operatives, and previously unseen images of Minneapolis weatherman Don Shelby and his top aids, this tape was described by US Deputy Secretary of Defense, Paul Wolfowitz, as � A real wake-up call as to how Lethal this Enemy can be. eMALE Richard Harris (UK) 5 min. Digital Video, 2003 Based upon a series of reviews of sex-workers submitted to the website of a UK brothel by its clients, this challenging film presents a unique video �canvass� of voices, sound effects, internet images and other visual materials. The dramatic result encourages the audiences to reflect on the impact of money on male-female relationships. Ruptures Michael Cros (France) 3.3 min. Digital Video, 2003 A Face looking at someone of camera. A reflection with the dark behind hunting words and a broken thought and having separation in French as a musical movie. Untitled Affair by Chi-Jang Yin (USA) We Got Old Rachel Davies (UK) 9.45 min. 16mm, 2003 Collaboration with choreographer-dancer Annie Lok. A poetic film shot in London and Hong Kong,reconciling with memories an acceptance of the passing of time. IL Sogno E�Un Viaggio (Dream Is A Trip) Giuseppe Tilli (Italy / Switzerland) 11.03 min. Digital Video, 2003 The trip of two friends in Ginevra is seen in the dream of the third friend, who didn�t wake up. The author images from his camera�s digital memory (tapes) and ,amipulated them to get a new symbolic meaning. So he articulated them in a screenplay that takes place in the theater of the monitor. In the same way subconscious articulates elements taken from memory in a symbolic representation that takes place in the mind. So the author is the subconscious machine. There are no actors, there is no pretending. There is no cineman. All images o this video had passed in the third electronic eye before the existence of their meaning or the idea of this video. 5:00pm to 7:00pm Main Program 5: Flames Approximate Running Time: 85 min Liyab (Flames) Sockie Fernandez (Philippines) 10.15 min. 35mm, 2003 In a country where the lines between Catholicism and ritualistic belief are blurred, lightening a candle can influence the fate of a loved one, or an enemy. Superstition and fatalism is but the norm; mortal lives and destinies are changed with the strike of a match. This is a backdrop for Liyab (Flames), a subtle tale of three individuals � the wife, the best friend, and the comatose husband that unites them, albeit reluctantly. Liyab centers around Romy, an average Joe in all aspects, save one; he has been comatose for the past three months. Unwittingly, Romy becomes the catalyst of events, forcing Ellen � his embittered wife � and Jon � his best friend � to come to terms with issues of their own. Jealousy, passion, anger, despair� emotions and circumstance merge amidst prayer and flame, bringing events to its inevitable end. It is hard enough to choose between mere existence and induced death, but when passions, love and friendship come into play, one begins to wonder: whose life is it anyway? Oceans by Barton Mileski (Poland) 50 min Ten Minutes Ben Mole (UK) 20 min. 35mm, 2003 Andy has the task of looking after his father�s magazine as Editor-In-Chief, but he�s well out of his depth. Held in contempt by his staff, he�s only got the position because he�s blackmailed his sister Jessica, out of the job. Things take a turn for the worse when Andy accidentally shatters a CD containing pictures for a vital news story ten minutes before the magazine goes to print. Starring �Lock Stock�s� Nick Moran and �Red Dwarf�s� Craig Charles. 7:00pm to 9:30pm IN COMPETITION, MAIN - EXPERIMENTAL ACHTUNG � Respect (Concentration Chair) by Michael Brynntrup (Germany) Colors by Rafael Balboa (Mexico) Erotography For The Fastidious Connoisseur by Ettiene Desrosiers (Canada) Play by Jeff Walker (Uganda) Rapito Dagli Alieni (Kidnapped By Aliens) by Giuseppe Tilli (Italy) Skip by Ann Steuernagel (USA) Sui Generis by Alexander Nothis (USA) Tempo Suspenso (Explosao Introspectiva) by Rodrigo Areias (Portugal) Tres Muybridge (Crazy Muybridge) by Rafael Balboa (Mexico) |
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