THIS WEEK ON CINEKATIPUNAN
June 18-23, 2007 (5-7 pm)
Two acclaimed Korean women filmmakers Kyoung-mi Lee and Lee Soo-yeon open this weeks Cinekatipunan AsiaLunes program today with the works Feel Good Story and The Goggles, while Tuesday’s choice is Haw-Ang (Before Harvest) a narrative digital film by Filipino director Bong Ramos.
Wednesday, June 20, features A Midsummer’s Night of Dreams, a selection of short experimental works by six filmmakers, curated by Manila-based Afghan-American filmmaker Waise Azimi.
Thursday’s program is a selection of four film shorts [Apple, Abstraction, Coming to Pass, and Iyak ni Maria] by Sherad Anthony Sanchez, while visual artist Yason Banal takes center stage on Friday night with Malikot ang Kama-Y/O, a selection of videos. Saturday’s program will feature works by campus-based filmmakers from the University of the East and the University of the Philippines, selected by Banal and Prof. Ramon Nunez.
Held Mondays to Saturdays at Mag:net Café Katipunan,Cinekatipunan screenings start at 5:00 PM. While the film screenings are free, viewers are encouraged to make voluntary contributions for the honoraria of the featured filmmakers. For questions or comments about Cinekatipunan write to
sinag_haraya@yahoo.com.
Cinekatipunan programs precede Mag:net Café’s nightly holding of Live Performances by well-known and emerging bands and musicians. Mag:net Café is located along Katipunan Avenue (fronting Miriam and Ateneo) in Quezon City. For more inquiries please call 9293191 or visit www.magnet.com.ph.
THIS WEEK’S PROGRAM
June 18 (Monday)
AsiaLunes: Korean Indie Shorts
Kyoung-mi Lee: FEEL GOOD STORY
(2004|Fiction|16mm|Color|36 mins)
Two women who hate each other so much are required to do over work every night!
Kyoung-mi Lee was born in Seoul and graduated from the Hankuk University of Foreign Studies and the School of Film and Multimedia at the Korea National University of Arts. Feel Good Story was shown in various film festivals including the 1st InDpanda Int’l Short Film Festival (2005, Hong Kong), 4th Gwangju Int’l Film Festival (2004, Korea) and 5th Young Guns Film Festival (2005, Singapore). It garnered the Grand Prizes in the Amateur Section, 5th Korea Visual Arts Festival (2004, Korea), the 2nd Asiana Int’l Short Film Festival (2004, Korea). Busan Asian Short Film Festival (2004, Korea) and 6th Women’s Film Festival in Seoul (2004, Korea).
Soo-yeon Lee: THE GOGGLES
(2000/35mm/Color/34 mins)
Lee Soo-yeon has already built a firm reputation at a whole range of international reputed film festivals with some remarkable short films as Nobody Knows what Happened at the Beginning, Survival Game, Refrigerator Tale, La and especially The Goggles. The Goggles was a graduation project for her masteral degree in Chung-Ang University and has since then been showcased as part of various national and international film festivals.
June 19 (Tuesday)
Bong Ramos: HAW-ANG (Before Harvest)
Haw-Ang (Before Harvest)
(Narrative|Digital|2007)
Sister Adel is a light-hearted, young nun who embarks on a journey to a village in Ifugao whose indigenous people are as hard to reach as its pristine mountains. She meets Dacmay, a seven-year-old rowdy girl who understands much about the farming life of their tiny town, but not about her own mother who appears faceless in her dreams. [Synopsis from < http://pinoyfilm.com/film>]
Bong Ramos is a graduate of BS Civil Engineering at the Far Eastern University. He is an ABS-CBN writer of telenovelas like Vietnam Rose, Mangarap Ka, Sa Puso Ko Iingatan Ka and drama anthologies like The Maricel Drama Special. He has line-produced films like Room Boy by Alfred Aloysius Adlawan which was a finalist in the full length feature category of the 2005 Cinemalaya; Hubad sa Ilalim ng Buwan by Lav Diaz, Pila Balde by Jeffrey Jeturian, Kriminal ng Bo. Concepcion by Lav Diaz. [Profile from < http://www.cinemalaya.org/index.php?bn=2&cat=2&seq=6&f=1&nid=10 >]
June 20 (Wednesday)
A Midsummer’s Night of Dreams: Experimental Films, curated by Waise Azimi
Featuring
Joy Ligaya Domingo – Perya (30 minutes)
Soni Kum – Foreign Sky (75 minutes)
Chrysmas Gawaran & JP V. Carpio – Recitation [work in progress] (15 minutes)
Grig Montegrande – Sakay [work in progress] (25 minutes)
Miguel Pancho - 9/5 (20 minutes)
Waise Azimi - Dancing Wounded Is: (1 minute) Night/Lights (2 minutes)
Waise Azimi graduated from Bard College in 2005 with a degree in sociology. In 2003, Waise Azimi shot a documentary titled: Afghanistan After, about how life has changed two years after the fall of the Taliban. Most recently he is working on the post-production of documentary that covered the training of a young group of Afghan recruits as they struggled through the Afghan National Army’s training program at the Kabul Military Training Center. Waise Azimi has grown up in Manila and loves the city and its people.
June 21 (Thursday)
Shorts by Sherad Anthony Sanchez
[Featuring the works Apple, Abstraction, Coming to Pass, and Iyak ni Maria]
Abstraction
[Philippines|2005|2 mins]
Two boys inserted in an ambiguous context, are the pretest in order to transgress the cinematographic shape.
Iyak ni Maria
[Philippines|7mins|miniDV]
A music video (image video) that delves on the objectification of Filipino women through time, and the resistance or submission that have resonated since.
Apple
[2005|Philippines|miniDV|7 mins| Cebuano with English subtitles]
A study on depravity in the eyes of a young mananaptan (local funeral/death chanter), as she struggles with an apathetic life and learns to serenade death (Synopsis from < http://www.movfest.com/films.htm>]
June 22 (Friday)
Malikot Ang Kama-Y/O: Videos by Yason Banal
Yason Banal was born in the Philistine Islands and currently works and lives under your bed. He obtained a BA in Film at the University of the Philippines, an MA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths College, University of London and a student exchange at the Rijksakademie in Netherlands, and was also former visiting tutor and artist-in-residence at the London Metropolitan University. Recent projects include Singapore Biennale 2006; ‘Fuzzy Logic’, Lopez Museum; ‘Manila Envelope’, UC Berkeley; ‘Magazine Project’, Documenta 12 Kassel; ‘Urban Nomad’, Scope Art Fair Basel and ‘Les Fleurs Du Mal’, Gallery Primo Alonso London, while recent solo shows include ‘Disaster but Disco’, AIT Tokyo and ‘Imperial Satellite’, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts (Geidai). Besides a nomadic art practice, he is also a columnist for the Philippine Star and assistant professor and indpendent curator at the University of the Philippines Film Institute.
June 23 (Saturday)
Campus-Based Films from the University of the Philippines and University of the East
presenting
Bright Dead(A)Head: Six UP Film Institute Student Works
(Selected by Yason Banal)
and
Works by UE Campus-based Filmmakers
(Selected by Prof. Ramon Nunez)
including
MENSAHE (Mensahe)
(Written and directed by Ryan G. Reyes, University of the East, Recto Manila|15 mins)
Do you believe that a cellphone can ruin a person’s life? Follow the life of Nilo, a 23 year old man who has no interest in a cellular phone. But his perspective will change when the day of his 24th birthday, when he receive the gift that will change his life. Based on a real story of a young man living in Samar.
Ryan G. Reyes, aged 21, is a fresh graduate from the University of the East Recto Manila in which he finished the course of Bachelor of Arts in Broadcast Communication. He usually use the genre of comedy in almost all of his produced video, it’s just reflecting his true perception of life. He is currently unemployed and is spending most of his time surfing the net.
"BRIGHT DEAD(A)HEAD: SIX UPFI STUDENT WORKS"
Selected by Yason Banal
14:22:03 Running Time
by Aissa Penafiel
3 mins
Is time always exact, definite and precise as science has quantified it? Sometimes it feels that time may pass by so fast when were preoccupied and yet so slow when we are not doing anything. Which is the real time? This film translates visually the two aspects of time which we all experience: the physical time versus the psychological time.
Aissa Peñafiel is a fourth year film student from UP Film Institute. She loves the outdoors and is always out looking for her next adventure. Testing her limits both physically and mentally is a challenge that she likes setting for herself in everything that she does.
Making Out
by Sasha Palomares
3 mins
Inspired by Andy Warhol’s "Kiss," MAKING OUT is a video collage of just that – couples making out. Composed of video clips generated using the computer game SIMS 2, the work is an endless stream of different animated couples making out in different places and ways. MAKING OUT experiments with the possibility of making a film with a medium not originally meant for filmmaking. At the same time, it attacks the viewer with its artificial erotic images, arousing his curiosity and or otherwise.
Sasha B. Palomares is a 4th year film student in the UP Film Institute. One of her goals is to establish herself as a female filmmaker and cinematographer. Another one of her goals is to own a chow chow one day. But for now, her main goal is to live through her thesis.
Balay Sa Umang (A Hermit Crab’s Home)
by Pete Malaya Camporedondo
9 mins
Shots of Samal Island and its people.
Someone discovering home.
Ang kuliit.
Biyaheng MRT
by AD Alarilla
5.30 mins
gabi.
sa loob ng mamahaling sinehan, naghawak ang aming mga kamay.
patago, sa ilalim ng aming magkatabing siko, para walang makakita.
binigyan niya ako ng sulat.
hindi pala tatagal ng pitong buwan ang tunay na pag-ibig.
Defense
By Karl Fredrick Castro
6.45 mins
A young film major struggles with her thesis — way, way beyond the four corners of the classroom. A story of protracted performance art.
Karl Fredrick M. Castro just turned 21 last week. A graduate of the Philippine High School for the Arts, he is now a senior film major at the UP Film Institute. He loves graphic design and his film organization, UP Sining at Lipunan. He firmly believes that the recent 300 percent increase in UP tuition is downright unjust. Last year, he was editor in chief of the Philippine Collegian. Currently, he is struggling with his own thesis work.
Junjun, Junjun, Nasan Ka?
by Nestor Abrogena
2 mins
Op art, Semiotics and Dada in search of a missing boy, and finds meaning in nothing.
