| 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 18, 2004, Thursday 10:00am to 12:00pm Student Program 2: Roulette Approximate Running Time: 45 min War and peace comprise a cycle. So are violence and serenity. These student videos seem like a game of Russian Roulette � dominated by stories of risks in life by characters who are ready to gamble. �Caught� captures the essence of love gone mad; �Bagancia� unexpectedly sacrifices audience appeal to reveal a surprise twist; �Multiple Choice� reveals the secrets to our lost souls; �Untitled� pictures an ode to street gangsters; and, �Call of Duty� sums everything up by offering peace a chance. Place your bets. Caught Anna Claudette Criselda Garde (Philippines) Bagancia Ean Mayor (Philippines) Multiple Choice John Vincent Redrico & Marlo Monteagudo (Philippines) Untitled Bradley Webber Chong (Philippines) Call of Duty Miguel Villalon (Philippines) Student Program 3: My Vagina is My Village Approximate Running Time: 25 min Three videos with unique visions from the warped minds of young filmmakers. Three works that will prove to be visual treats. �Four of Wands�, set in a place where time is of no essence, it brings two characters to life as they wander into a mystical world where freedom replaces oppression. �Experimental Film� looks like a prelude to this year�s Lenten season only this time, the approach is not as conventional as perceived to be. The program is ended by �My Vagina is My Village�, a poetry on video that visually impresses while providing a strong message, giving dominance to individuality and the freedom of women oppressed by time, space and society. Four of Wands Dean Mark Enoza (Philippines) Experimental Film Denise Castillo (Philippines) My Vagina is My Village Denise Castillo (Philippines) 1:00pm to 3:00pm International Filmmaker Spotlight: Garin� Torossian Total running time: 69 minutes Born in Beirut, Lebanon, and moved to Canada in 1979, Garin� Torossian is a Toronto based filmmaker of Armenian descent whose collage films have won numerous awards, and have screened at almost every conceivable venue around the world - including live rock shows, art galleries, and five consecutive appearances at the Berlin International Film Festival. She is primarily a self-taught filmmaker and photographer. Mining a rich palette of colours and textures, superimpositions and dissolves, mixing formats of super 8, 35mm and video, Torossian creates stunningly sophisticated films that bridge the gaps between visual, sound art, cinema and the rock video. There have been retrospectives of her work at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, as well as Ottawa's Cinematheque and Yerevan's Cinematheque, Berlin Arsenal, Telluride Film Festival, and Winnipeg Cinematheque. Her film, GIRL FROM MOUSH(1994), was awarded best experimental film at the Melbourne Film Festival. SPARKLEHORSE(1999) received honorable mention at the 2000 Berlin International Film Festival. HOKEES(2000) won gold prize for experimental drama at the Houston Film Festival and best short at the AFFMA film festival. BABIES ON THE SUN(2001) won the Panorama shortfilm prize at the 2002 Berlin International Film Festival. This spotlight programme showcases some of Torossian's most recent award-winning work. GARDEN IN KHORKHOM Garin� Torossian, Canada, 2003, 14 min., colour and B/W. Inspired by the works of Armenian American painter Arshile Gorky, the Film is a tapestry of footage provided by Armenian-Canadian director Atom Egoyan�s feature film ARARAT and footage shot by Torossian. GARDEN IN KHORKHOM is an impressionistic film, a homage to Arshile Gorky that Focuses on his relationship to Armenian art and to his mother. SHADOWY ENCOUNTERS Garin� Torossian, Canada, 2002, 15 min., colour and B/W. A homage to the work of the Quay Brothers, the film is a synthesis of collaged moving and still images taken directly from the Quay Brothers' 35mm films and re-contextualized in order to metaphorically and responsively capture and reframe the qualities of the films of the Quay Brothers. The richly textured and layered imagery that resulted delves the labyrinthine and secret realms of the Quay Brothers' world. SPARKLEHORSE Garin� Torossian, Canada, 2000, 9 min., colour. Inspired by three songs by the band Sparklehorse, the film conveys subtly and with characteristic poetry the way people communicate with and value each other in a world of spiralling mediation. BABIES ON THE SUN Garin� Torossian, Canada, 2001, 5 min., colour. Inspired by the song of the same name by the band Sparklehorse, the textured and layered style of the film gives the impression of blurred memories floating in the subconscious mind, offering nostalgic, weathered images of �childhood�. HOKEES Garin� Torossian, Canada, 2000, 26 min., colour. HOKEES is the story of Anahid � a contemporary Armenian woman who is pregnant with the child of her Turkish lover haunted by the past. An artistic blending of the real and unreal, of the past and present, are tightly woven into an emotionally visual experience. In Armenian, Hokees literally means �soul� or �spirit�. 3:00pm to 5:00pm SPECIAL GAY PROGRAM 1: IN HER FOOTSTEPS curated by Paul Lee Total running time: 57 minutes The women in these two experimental documentaries retrace their footsteps in traversing the oceans to new lands and then sometimes back to their homeland, in search of a better life, and often nostalgic for what is left behind. As much a testament of the strength and the courage of these women, the affectionate stories told by these two films also ruminate on the effects that colonialism, warfare, and migration have on the lives of women and their families. The Shoes Weren't Made For Walking Paul Lee (Canada / Hong Kong) 27 min. B/W & colour, 1995 The lives, loves, and social roles of four generations of Chinese women in the filmmaker's family are explored through the stories of their shoes. In Chinese and English with English subtitles. Coconut/Cane & Cutlass Michelle Mohabeer (Canada / Guyana) 30 min. colour, 1994 An Indo-Caribbean filmmaker returns to her native Guyana, musing on desire, family, history and colonialism. 5:00pm to 7:00pm Special Program: Glitch This! Splice That! A Quebec Special curated by Ettiene Desrosiers Commenting on an underground media art scene in Quebec suggests the issue of defining underground creation by its cultural specificity. Whether there is a distinction between Quebec and the rest of Canada on a creative basis is a non starter. Radical ideas go beyond specific communities, linguistic or otherwise. Our beloved grand pays gets even when it comes to art. Thus, it�s easier to confront such a concept in economic and cultural contexts. Most of the works presented here belong neither to the mainstream of mass-media images nor to its reversed art-world sphere. In that sense, they sneak out of the viewfinder of marketing by triggering various alternate takes that redefine the relationship to the work. Between our big time national broadcasters and Yankee imperialism, between artsy-pieces for the happy-few and popular culture, artistic creation from the other solitude emerges within different venues that bring a new edge to underground art creation. While democratisation of technology explains creativity booms within the media arts community, fresh contexts of distribution also force their way in. Thus live cultural agitators like Kino Collective or Prend �a court venues. The happenings of the first are a brilliant manifestation of idiosyncrasies brought to a level of collective interests, while the second raises the presentation of independent shorts to a rarely seen vitality. By creating their own cultural pattern, these examples provide dynamic niches of film and video escaping easy popular cultural definitions. Film and video with so-called underground content fully bloom here. In the past few years, new initiatives of presentation through collective actions found a rejuvenated community of interests and defined a new meaning for individuality. This programme is drawn around these circles, while also exploring a diverse array of styles and contents. - Etienne Desrosiers Fuck Everyone (Illease) Mathilde G�romin 4 min. Super-8, 2003 How to grow up and find one�s place in a lesbian body? Get in the ring, riot-grrrr, and experience everything to avoid being ill eased in the end. All you have to do is watch and listen. A vivid and refreshing music-clip that mixes found-footage with cut-up animation. Naughty Soxxx Chantal Houtteman & Elza Kephart 10 min. video, 2002 Watch these hilarious sock puppet parody children shows and pornography, chock-full of Canadian Content. In �Les aventures �rotiques de Chaussette", an adventurous Quebec girl leaves her safe harbour of Sept-Isles to claim her fame as a singer. A lonely woman from Bradford (Ont) seduces any man that comes along in "The Diary of a Horny Housewife". "Love Lessons" showcases a pretty but stupid pupil who needs after school tutoring in nearly every subject, and Young Billy Buck tries to make his way to the Calgary stampede in "Homo on the range". Breathe Under Water Laeah Lazariuk & Pierluigi Vecchi 5 min. video, 2001 A piece about real time anticipation and pleasure. Possible worlds and different levels of being are explored as the character asserts and reinvents itself. The technological confinement acts both as a confessional space and a camouflage of reality. From the Fluid series. Julien Jean-Fran�ois Caissy 2 min. video, 2002 Gluttony prompts a kid to accept an offer he can�t refuse from a sexy nudist neighbour. You�ll never guess the in-yer-face raunchy finale of what starts as an innocent cute NFB�s style animation on a summertime coming-of-age. Easy Cheese Martine Asselin 2 min. video, 2003 Some American products are surprisingly useful. �In a wonderful country, you�ve gotta eat wonderful things�. A sweeping look at deep-seated consumerism. Hollywood Marion Pinell & Martin Beauregard 3 min. video 2003 This video performance parodies the patterns of the dream factory. Common languages of cinema and music-hall comments yankee zeitgeist with fun. The Vegetable Chlo� Leriche 3 min. video, 2002 The ballad of a lonely veggie in Hamburg. Can he help you forget your hard day? "If he could, he would can.� Score by Lederhosen Lucil, a musical segment of Krista Muir�s imagination. Motel Centurion Jo & Loo de Cunt Vetter 4 min. super-8, 2003 One night, a fading petrochemical art-punk-rock-legend has his best erotic dream while two weirdoes do strange things in a motel room. A wicked journey through motel trash culture. Sing along with Jesus Alexandre Roy 1 min. video, 2001 A sing-along Jesus karaoke lullaby. Manifestant Pantouflard Sylvain Robert 4 min. video, 2001 A spurious videogame in which police and rioters confront themselves in unpredicted ways, accompanied by a beautiful fake Japanese voice. Royal Plus Guillaume Paquin 4 min. 16mm, 2002 In a run-of-the-mill Laundromat, the monotonous tossing of the spin cycles takes on new rhythms in this witty B&W urban dance interlude, citing film noir with a Jarmushesque stoic twist. Stages of life Patrick Boivin 10 min. video, 2003 A citizen�s existence in an Orwellian near-future world. Drawing a critical yet apolitical bead on every aspects of society, Phylact�re Cola insults intelligence as well as stupidity with their satirical gallery of grotesque characters. At the edges of both centuries, this Quebec City�s collective stormed national tv with their irreverent iconoclastic sketches. This trilogy brings together three of them originally shown separately. Aspiration Constas Mentzas 12 min. 35mm, 2003 On a deserted beach, lost between the sea and a cliff, a man gets out of his car with a hammer, possessed by elusive conviction. Tension arises as no one can hear him except the cliff that sends him back echoes of his behaviour, drawing a spellbinding textured landscape, soothing yet marked with a hollow menace. 7:00pm to 9:30pm SPECIAL PROGRAM : JUST BETWEEN YOU AND ME curated by Paul Lee Total running time: 46 minutes The relationships between men can be so fraught with preoccupations of power, dominance, and machismo. But the relationships between men portrayed by these five short films offer some alternative takes on the traditional notions and the tired clich�s of male bonding, disrupting the mainstream norm with some unconventional but nurturing tenderness and affections. Thick Lips Thin Lips Paul Lee (Canada) 6 min. 35mm, B/W & colour, experimental, 1994 Through the meeting of lips, a musical short film about racist and homophobic violence. Makbul H�seyin Karag�z (Turkey) 7 min. 35mm, colour, 1999 Who has more power: the master or the slave? Set in 16th century Ottoman Turkey, a silent foot-washing ceremony between Suleiman the Magnificent and his slave Ibrahim, who serves to prove that passion can turn the simplest task into an erotic experience. In Turkish with English subtitles. Open David O'Brien (Canada) 15 min. colour, 2000. What happens when a third person appears in the picture and the relationship becomes "open"? A man quietly considers his options in an open relationship. The Milkman Ken Takahashi (Canada) 8 min. colour, 2001 Two unlikely men come together to share love at its most basic level: a love that both nourishes and sustains life. The Offering Paul Lee (Canada) 10 min. colour, 1999 A wordless elegiac meditation on the passing of life, told through the story of love and friendship between a Japanese monk and the novice who entered his life, from the initial encounter to their final parting. March 19, 2004, Friday 10:00am to 12:00pm Student Program 4: Hallucinatory Fate Approximate Running Time: 60 min Fear has always been perceived in many ways, in many forms. Some associate it with fate and others trace its origin from mere hallucinations. An invisible force stalks two siblings one eerie night in �Night Visions� while a would-be writer tries to find solace via his dreams in �In Dreams�. �Karsel� meanwhile presents a different notion of fear and fate while �Unlucky� and �Malas to the End� both present unlikely situations that would generate smile from viewers. Five student videos are grouped in this program, from the serious to the sarcastic, to be viewed in one interesting whole. Night Visions Timothy Paul Chan (Philippines) In Dreams Vincent Cueto (Philippines) Karsel Ryan Hille Soriano (Philippines) Unlucky Albert Ao (Philippines) Malas To The End (Pure Out of Luck) Dustin Concepcion (Philippines) 1:00pm to 3:00pm FILMMAKER IN FOCUS: JONAH A�ONUEVO LIM Afternoon Delight : When The Gods Start to Play by Jonah A. Lim (Philippines) Rescue in F Minor by Jonah A. Lim (USA) Social Cancer by Jonah A. Lim (USA) The Journey by Jonah A. Lim (USA) She is Sexy (as Producer) USA Johnny�s Special Day (as Director of Photography) USA Battle of Remington: Snowmen of War (as Still Photographer & Grip) USA The Television Head (as Script Supervisor) USA 3:00pm to 5:00pm LEGACY by Butch Nolasco (Philippines) 70 min 5:00pm to 7:00pm Special Program: LIGHTSTRUCK A �Foreign Matter� Tour presented by the Antimatter Festival of Underground Short Film & Video curated by Todd Eacrett and Deborah De Boer This program presents twelve experimental, primarily process-based pieces. Through a range of formal techniques � hand-processing, cameraless animation, found footage, digital manipulation �these films and videos investigate both personal and cinematic histories at the intersection of old and new technologies. Shooting Star Jason Britski (Canada) 4.35 min. 16mm, 2002 Shooting Star is a film about mortality. The film is a moving x-ray of small and grand gestures alike, grounded in the detail of our surroundings, and the beauty that resonates from these hidden places. Without Leave Gary Evans & Karl Fodor (Canada) 3.28 min. S8 on video, 2002 Evans and Fodor use toned and manipulated film stock and disjunctive visual narrative to powerfully convey the sense of movement, urgency and exhilaration in this story of servicemen going AWOL. Final: (Toxic 6) Gerald Saul (Canada) 5 min, 16mm, 2002 Time races ahead of us and we will never win. Cinema decays while progress disrupts internal orders. We do not inherit the earth. Great Leap Forward Jeff Carter (Canada) 3.25 min. 16mm, 2001 Mao's China: a train station, dignitaries, speeches, thousands of onlookers. Great Leap Forward is derived from found footage happened upon in a Gastown warehouse. The source of the footage is unknown, as is any information about the decades-old media event depicted. Step-printed using an optical printer, the film situates the activities in the displaced half-remembered realm of dreams. Absolutely Aleesa Cohene (Canada) 8.3 min. video, 2003 A pseudo-documentary about history, politics and the body. Weaving through various sources and re-contextualized found footage, Absolutely interviews four characters about democracy, revolution and their internal manifestations. Cooper/Bridges Fight Christina Battle (Canada) 3 min. 16mm, 2002 Cooper/Bridges Fight reconstructs an infamous scene from the highly politicized western High Noon. "They punish each other mercilessly, nothing barred. The horses, becoming nervous, rear and whine in their stalls..." Erotography for the Fastidious Connoisseur Etienne Desrosiers (Canada) 4.2 min. video, 2002 A search for the erotic ghost in the porn universe. Six scraps of 8mm found footage from the sixties are stripped naked in search of intimacy. Floating figures escape their sexual content in a saturated media canvas, and electronic music is combined with erotic hot flashes and spontaneous climaxes in this thriller-cum-blue movie. Saraban Emmanuel Lefrant (Canada) 6 min. 16mm, 2002 A one-man flamenco in the form of a cameraless animation. Oil Wells: Sturgeon Road + 97th Street Christina Battle (Canada) 3 min. 16mm, 2002 Focusing on the mesmeric and repetitive processes of oil wells in northern Alberta, this film documents a sighting common to the Canadian prairies that is both epic and mundane. Chiasmus Daichi Saito (Canada) 8 min. 16mm, 2003 An exploration into the process of perception, the act of seeing and listening, Chiasmus takes film as a metaphor for the breathing body, the medium intercrossing the fragmented and abstract images of the body in movement. The rhythm and tension created by the interplay between sound and image, their disjunction and conjunction, aspire to an organic and sensual moment where inside becomes outside, and outside inside. Self-Portrait Post Mortem Louise Bourque (Canada) 2.3 min. 16mm, 2002 An unearthed time-capsule -- consisting of long buried footage of the filmmaker's youthful self -- reveals an exquisite corpse with nature as collaborator. A metaphysical pas de deux in which decay undermines the integrity of the image but in the process initiates a transmutation. 18,000 Dead in Gordon Head Clive Holden (Canada) 13 min. video, 2001 Based on the filmmaker's eyewitness accounts of a shocking and random act of violence which took place in Victoria in 1985, 18,000 Dead in Gordon Head is a treatise on the omnipresence of violence in contemporary culture. Composed as a poem, it's a hybrid of several film stocks and video formats, digitally processed to create a violent, yet lyrical, collage of textured loops, internal rhythms and visual rhymes, finally completing the work's cycle back to film. 7:00pm to 9:30pm CLOSING NIGHT / CLOSING FILMS Approximate Running Time: 112 min Shorts: - Sui Generis by Alexander Nothis (USA) - Timbang Lata (Tin Pail) by Herbert Navasca (Philippines) Feature: MAXIMA�S MIRACLE by By Van Paul Ruven (Netherlands) Maxima�s Miracle is a thrilling and moving feature film, uniquely shot during the last royal wedding in historical Amsterdam, The Netherlands. It combines actual facts (documentary) and real fiction (shot during the historical events in Amsterdam), blending into a special one of a kind movie. The story takes place during the royal Wedding of the Dutch Crown Prince Willem Alexander and the Argentinian Maxima (daughter of a minister in the �dirty� regime of Argentinian Dictator Videla). It is the responsibility of security agent Felix Bos that no attempt is committed on the bride and bridegroom from the attic windows on Dam Square (like in Oliver Stone�s JFK). On this same day his illegal Asian girlfriend Min is arrested to be expelled from the country. Min escapes, desperately running through the frantic excitement in the Amsterdam streets. While Felix is trying to find her, he meets the Argentine Maria Castillo. She has come all the way to The Netherlands, because a miracle has been predicted to her (like a story from Garcia Marquez) to take place on this day, when the newly wed princess will kiss her princeon the balcony. Now suddenly Felix faces some serious challenges: Will he succeed to find Min before she has left for good? Can he avoid a serious attempt on the royal couple? Will Maria be reconciled with lost Argentine husband after many years? And what exactly is Maxima�s miracle? -=END OF DOCUMENT=- |
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