Opening: 27.12.2014 @3pm
Location: Saigon Ranger
5/7 Nguyen Sieu Street,
District 1
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
This special screening will showcase two films by cinema greats of the ‘Third Cinema Movement’ a movement that began in Latin America in the 1960s/70s denouncing neocolonialism, the capitalist system and the Hollywood model of producing cinema for mere entertainment. Both Tahimik and Marker are considered pioneers of essay filmmaking – a film genre that takes the style of the documentary with oral commentary and composed with the signature style of...
Opening: 21.11.2014 @6:30pm
Location: Hoa Sen University
Marie Curie Room (6F)
8 Nguyen Van Trang, District 1
HCMC
Introducing the work of Filipino filmmaker Kidlat Tahimik
The name Kidlat Tahimik immediately connotes contradiction. As an obsessive cultural observer, Kidlat has been exploring his inner cultural contradictions by making his non-commercial films since 1975. Born in 1942 as Eric Oteyza de Guia in Baguio City, he was raised in that American enclave resort town, situated in the heart of the tribal highlands of Igorot Culture. Three decades ago, he...
Opening: 19.11.2014 @6:30pm
Location: Hoa Sen University
Marie Curie Room (6F)
8 Nguyen Van Trang, District 1
HCMC
Introducing the work of Filipino filmmaker Kidlat Tahimik
The name Kidlat Tahimik immediately connotes contradiction. As an obsessive cultural observer, Kidlat has been exploring his inner cultural contradictions by making his non-commercial films since 1975. Born in 1942 as Eric Oteyza de Guia in Baguio City, he was raised in that American enclave resort town, situated in the heart of the tribal highlands of Igorot Culture. Three decades ago, he...
Opening: 24.06.2014 @6:30pm
Location: Hoa Sen University
Rm. NZ507 (5th Floor)
8 Nguyen Van Trang,
Dst. 1, Ho Chi Minh City
This lecture will consider how contemporary art practices take up the problem of visualizing absence by archiving and creating around social and political erasure. As artists and thinkers, how do we identify and respond to stories, social histories, and conflicts which we experience as crucial to our understanding of our own history, nation, or family, but yet seem difficult to extract from the public domain, or remain...
Opening: 20.06.2014 @6:30pm
Location: Hoa Sen University
Rm NZ0903 (9th Floor)
8 Nguyen Van Trang
Dst. 1, Ho Chi Minh City
This lecture will explore the power of key visual and storytelling devices central to mythological narrative and their particular ongoing legacy in contemporary visual and popular culture.I will begin by looking at the architecture of the grand epics of classical Eastern and Western traditions, such as Homer’s Odyssey, the Ramayana and the Monkey King story.
Using such epics as lens, my lecture will elaborate upon why and...
