Mini DocFest Saigon: two days for Documentary & Experimental Films

This March, Hoa Sen University’s Art House Saigon will hold Mini Docfest, a series of documentary and experimental films, in Ho Chi Minh City for the first time. San Art and Hanoi DocLab have co-selected a number of experimental films / documentaries by young film makers from Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh city. The two-day film screening will include discussions with professor Michael Brynntrup (Hanoi DocLab instructor), film maker Truong Minh Quy, and mephim’s co-founder Tran Minh Duc amongst others. Mini DocFest – Saigon version is sponsored by Goethe Institute...

Sàn Art’s curated screening at Void Derry (Ireland)

Sàn Art is pleased to introduce audience of Void Derry the special selection of video artworks and experimental films by 4 Vietnamese artists and filmmakers from different backgrounds and generation: Viet Kieu – Vietnamese growing up and living in foreign countries – to migrant citizens from other provinces; yet all are now residing in Saigon – the most vibrant city in Vietnam. If Saigon was celebrated as Oriental Pearl during its French colonial era and is now geared as the country’s economic stem, here the artists showcase multiple facets of...

Day by day

This afternoon premiers Thanh Mai’s newest video work, part of the artist’s social oriented project-exhibition in Phnom Penh ‘Day by Day’. The same named video was made in several small fishing communities in Siem Reap and Pursat in Cambodia, and Long An in Vietnam. The said people, who are Vietnamese by ancestry, have lived in Cambodia for years now, but not owning any form of identification of either country. Thanh Mai seeks to explore the experiences of marginalized communities by portraying their lives by her stylized documentation that is daring,...

‘Why is Yellow the Middle of the Rainbow?’ and ‘Far from Vietnam’

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...

Looking at the big sky

“Looking at the big sky” is a selection of 13 videos by German students from art schools all over Germany, shown in Goethe Institutes worldwide. Sàn Art Laboratory is delighted to host a screening evening of this collection, followed by a lecture by Dr. Renate Buschmann on the German context of video art in Germany and the creative processes of the project participants. The project title refers to video practices that transcend broders and limitations, give free rein to ideas and encourage radical perspectives. The selected works employ an astonishing...