Film Screening: Birds of a Feather

Film Screening “Birds of a Feather” A work in progress // Germany, Vietnam, ca. 60 min Time: 11.06.2019 @6:30pm Location: Ca Phe Thu Bay Tre 264 Nam Ky Khoi Nghia, Ward 8, District 3, HCMC (above Trung Nguyen Legend Cafe) Director: Trieu Hai Anh The screening will be followed by a short Q&A with the filmmaker and a few members of the crew. Synopsis: In the mid 1980s Doan Thi Hai Yen moves from Saigon, Vietnam to Sokolov, Czechoslovakia as part of a work exchange program where she was to...

Philippe Descola: On Anthropological Research

A presentation & group discussion Time: 27.04.2019 @10 – 11:30am Location: Sàn Art Professor Philippe Descola will be giving a presentation on Iconographic and Anthropological Research at San Art, followed by a group discussion on anthropological approaches and artistic practice in the context of the arts in Vietnam. The audience size for this event is limited to the first 15 registrators. Thank you! *** Speaker’s Biography: Philippe Descola initially specialized in the ethnology of Amazonia under the supervision of Claude Lévi-Strauss, focusing on how native societies relate to their environment....

Artist’s Talk: Gabby Miller

Artist’s Talk: Gabby Miller Disco Hole Research Time: 02.04.2019 @6:30pm Location: Sàn Art Notes from the artist: “Gabby Miller: Have been interested in: horizon lines, crossing over by sea, crossing over, heavy crude oil, the pacific ocean, containerships[1], platforms, swimming, Continue to be interested in: collaboration[2], meditation[3], bodies moving, buff bodies, sex, peep shows, disco, museums, “the anthropocene”/ “living in the ruins”[4], inheritance and trauma, family archives, “the century of progress”, war, buddhism, spatiotemporal transformation[5], gay sex, queers, infrastructure, generosity Currently more and more interested in: the subterranean, the underground,...

PopCorner #2: Hausu

Time: Saturday 30th March from 5pm to 6:30pm Location: Sàn Art Director: Nobuhiko Obayashi Year: 1977 Country: Japan Duration: 88 minutes Language: Japanese with English and Vietnamese subtitles A psychedelic ghost tale narrating 7 high-school students’ summer vacation gone awfully wrong… Weird, cheesy and visually striking, Hausu is a perfect film for lovers of art-house movies. More info: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076162/ — PopCorner is a film programme organised by Sàn Art. From old-school classics to underground cinema, each bi-monthly screening will showcase a new thematic, genre, country or director. And in the...

PopCorner #1: Onibaba

Time: Friday 15 March 2019 from 5pm to 6:45pm Location: Sàn Art Director: Kaneto Shindo Year: 1964 Country: Japan Duration: 103 min Language: Japanese with English and Vietnamese subtitles Onibaba, a classic Japanese film known for its aesthetics of eroticism, is set in the 15th century in the midst of famine and civil war. It depicts the story of a woman and her daughter-in-law as they assassinate wounded and lost samurais in order to survive. More info: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058430/ — PopCorner is a film program organized by Sàn Art. From old-school...