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> 30 oct. / Oct. 30 2014 at Montreal Fine Art Museum
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À la porte
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Pass V.I.P. pour tout les films : 90$
PRÉVENTE > 22 oct. - 30 oct. / Oct. 22 -30, 2014
VENTE at Centre Phi > 31 oct. - 2 nov. / Oct. 30 Nov. 2, 2014
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MASTER CLASS - KIDlat tahimik
MC: Prof. Catherine Russell
Oct. 30 - Museum of Fine Arts
> 19:00 - FREE
For the 4th edition of AmérAsia, director Kidlat Tahimik
(Philippines) makes his first appearance on Canadian
soil. Known as the “father of Philippine New Wave
cinema”, director Kidlat Tahimik is currently on a world
tour for his retrospectives in Amsterdam, Germany,
workshop in Vietnam, and to be a juror in Netherlands.
His first film, Perfumed Nightmares, was supported
by Werner Herzog, Francis Ford Coppola, and Susan
Sontag, which caught Europe and North America’s
attention.
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. This
process of “introspection on celluloid strips” is his
way of digging out the sariling dwende buried in the
“education” process.
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 began questioning
his American education, (a.k.a “my benevolent
assimilation”). This had begun with his Maryknoll nuns
in primary school; followed by further immersion in high
school (Saint Louis HS) and college (UP Diliman) both
institutions based on US curricula, ending up in America
for a graduate degree (Wharton School MBA).
In Baguio, he is an active artist (film, video-installation,
performance), supporting the process/viewpoint of
the undiploma-ed artists. In 1997, his Sunflower Film
Collective embarked on a project to share user-friendly
video technology with tribal people, with the aim that
responsibility for cultural documentation rests in their
own hands. He lectures at U.P. and Ateneo University,
speaks at local/international conferences, contributes
articles in Taglish to the Sunday Inquirer. Since 1983, he
performs in his native bahag (G-String) as an addendum
to his “technically unpolished films”.
AmérAsia is very honoured to welcome him to Montreal
in the occasion of celebrating independent and
emerging Asian cinema as well as, this year, exploring
and celebrating Tahimik’s ongoing works.
Interviews available from Oct. 30-Nov.3 2014
CALENDRIER CALENDAR
*GT - Guest Talk.
OCT. 30
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Practitioner’s Lab:
Research Creation
11:00 > 12:00
GT
Opening Cocktail
(Invitation only)
17:30 > 19:00
GT
Camera Aesthetics
Workshop: the long-take
13:00 > 15:00
GT
Masterclass with Kidlat
Tahimik
Feat. Catherine Russell
GT
19:00 > 20:00
Camera Aesthetics
Workshop: the long-take
13:00 > 15:00
GT
Memories of
Overdevelopment Kidlat
Tahimik in attendance
GT
20:30
One Piece Film
Inauguration Event
15:30 > 17:30
GT
OCT. 31 - Phi Centre
Philippine New Wave: this
is not a film movement
GT
16:30
The Lunchbox
18:30
My Place
20:45
GT
GT
GT
NOV. 1 - Phi Centre
Animated Shorts
Special presentation:
Masoud Raouf
GT
12:30
Turumba
Kidlat Tahimik in
attendance
17:35
Short Films
Filmmakers in attendance
14:30
GT
La Salada
19:00
Initiation
15:30
GT
GT
GT
NOV. 2 - Phi Centre
Québecois Filmmakers in
attendance
13:00
GT
One Piece Film
Encore Screening
17:30 > 19:30
Jiseul
15:20
Perfumed Nightmares
Kidlat Tahimik in
attendance
GT
20:00
GT
GT
NOUVELLE VAGUE DES PHILIPPINES PHILIPPINE NEW WAVE
Memories of Overdevelopment
Kidlat Tahimik - Philippines - 2014/150’ incomplete - Documentary. Eng. sub. Mc. Prof. and Author Catherine Russell
- Berlin Film Festival > October 30 - 20:30 - Museum of
Fine Arts - FREE
Filming started in the early 1980s and it will take more
than thirty five years for the director to complete the
film. Director Kidlat plays the role of Magellan’s slave
Enrique, who was with Magellan when the Philippines
was first discovered.
Turumba
Kidlat Tahimik - Philippines - 1981/95’- Filipino/
Tagalog/English/German (Eng sub) - Comedy / Drama
Mannheim Film Festival 1981
> November 1st - 17:35 - Phi Centre - Director in attendance
A Philippine village goes international in Tahimik’s
satirical takedown of the global economy, as essential
now as it was when it was released in 1983.
Perfumed Nightmare (Closing Film)
Kidlat Tahimik - Philippines - 1977/93’ - English - Drama
/ Comedy - Berlin Film Festival 1977
> November 2 - 20:00 - Phi Center - Director in attendance
Perfumed Nightmares is a semi-autobiographical
film which follows Kidlat Tahimik (literally ‘Quiet
Lightning’) as he discovers that the American dream
of space travel, industrialization and technological
superiority are really sweetly scented illusions which
quickly reveal themselves to be less than benign.
PHILIPPINE NEW WAVE : this is not a film
movment
Khavn De La Cruz - Philippines - 2012/102’- Filipino/
English (Eng sub) - Documentary
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2012 / CANADA
PREMIERE > October 31 - 16:30 - Phi Centre
An
internationally
internationally-acclaimed
and wildly divergent digital filmmakers from the
Philippines answer questions on filmmaking and
beyond: to what the power of film means and to what
the future holds for cinema, locally and worldwide.
INITIATION
Luk’Luk’l: Mother
Wayne Wapeemukwa - Canada - 2014/19:30’- anglais Fiction/Court - TIFF 2014 / QUEBEC PREMIERE
> November 1st - 15:30 > 17:30 - Phi Centre
A full-time mother and part-time sex worker goes
missing in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside during
the 2010 Winter Olympics.
Where I go
Kavich Neang - Cambodge - 2014/19:30’- anglais Fiction/Court - TIFF 2014 / CANADA PREMIERE
> November 1st - 15:30 > 17:30 - Phi Centre
San Pattica is a mixed Cambodian-Cameroonian
adult whose unknown father is a Cameroonian soldier
who came to Cambodia in 1992-1993 as a United
Nation peacekeeper.
LONG MÉTRAGE ASIATIQUE ASIAN FEATURING
My Place / Co-production
Emmanuel Moonchil Park - Korea/Canada - 2013/77’Korean (Eng sub) - Documentary - Hot Docs 2014 /
Jeonju International Film Festival 2013
> October 31 - 20:45 - Phi Centre
Shot over seven years and spanning three
generations, My Place is a tenderly crafted love
letter charting the personal journey of a family rediscovering themselves and their connection to one
another.
La Salada / Co-production
Juan Martin Hsu - Argentina - 2014/88’ - Spanish/
Korean/Mandarin/Quechua (English sub) - Drama
Co-production - TIFF 2014 / QUEBEC PREMIERE
> November 1st - 19:00 - Phi Centre
«La Salada» is a patchwork depicting the experience
of new immigrants in Argentina told through three
stories that take place in «La Salada» - the largest
informal market in Argentina. A group of characters,
from different ethnic origins, struggles against
loneliness and uprooting.
The Lunchbox
Ritesh Batra - Inde - 2013/104’- Hindi (S.T. anglais) Fiction - TIFF 2013/CANNES 2013
> October 31st - 18:30- Phi Centre
Middle class housewife Ila is trying once again to add
some spice to her marriage, this time through her
cooking. She desperately hopes that this new recipe
will finally arouse some kind of reaction from her neglectful husband...
Jiseul
Muel O - Korea - 2012/108’ - Korean (Eng sub) - Drama
BIFF 2012/ SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2013/ Quebec
> November 2nd - 15:20 - Phi Centre
A compelling story about the humanity of the
inhabitants of Jeju Island during the Korean War.
Jiseul’s black and white cinematography captures the
landscape of the region, and the lives of 120 villagers
who hid for 60 days from soldiers ordered to kill.
Après la peine (A New Mourning)
Anh Ming Truong - Canada - 2012/61’- français - Fiction
> 1er novembre - 13:00 - Centre Phi
Un jeune homme se réveille dans l’amnésie complète
avec une vielle dame étrange au chevet de son lit.
La dame le nourrit et le soigne jusqu’à sa guérison
alors qu’ils se préparent l’arrivée des invités et à un
événement mystérieux.
ANIMATION SHORT Directors in attendance
Migration
Johanne Ste-Marie/Mark Lomond - Canada - 2014/6:11’Animation > November 1st - 12:30 - Phi Centre
A vintage nature film that explores the migratory
pattern of a herd of wild creatures.
Cabinet
Hera Chan - Argentine - 2014/4’40 - anglais - Animation
WORLD PREMIERE
> November 1st - 12:30 - Phi Centre
Cabinet deals with the identity of the forever changing
Chinese body – the very idea of Chineseness that
individuals possess.
What Kind of Person
Grace An - Canada - 2014/2’ - Korean (Eng sub) Animation / WORLD PREMIERE
> November 1st - 12:30 - Phi Centre “Asking my parents
what kind of person they think I am.”
Yellow Sticky Notes: Canadian Anijam
Jeff Chiba Stearns - Canada - 2013/8’- English Animation-Documentary - CAAMFest 2014 / Toronto
Animation Arts Festival International / Fantasia 2014
> November 1st - 12:30 - Phi Centre - For the first time
in Canadian history, 15 of Canada’s most awardwinning and celebrated independent animators have
come together to create a collaborative animated
film.
There Is A Garden
Masoud Raouf - Canada - 2014/30’ - Animation /
Documentary - Follows the Artist talk - Artists and their
responsibility - Montreal World Film Festival 2014
> November 1st - 12:30 - Phi Centre
Using animation and images, filmmaker and Expolitical prisoner, Masoud Raouf shows us how step
by step the visual landscape along with art and culture
were subverted and replaced as means to install the
government’s theocracy.
COURT - SHORT
Directors in attendance
Akira
Nguyen-Anh Nguyen - Canada - 2014/5’14 - English
-Trailer - FANTASIA 2014
> November 1st - 14:30 - Phi Centre
A crowd-sourced, non-profit project meant to create
a live-action fan trailer of AKIRA, the renowned
manga-turned-anime film from the late 1980’s.
Un projet à but non-lucratif, tourné par et pour les
fans, dans le but de créer un film d’action en direct,
adapté du célèbre manga animé des années 1980:
Akira.
Fuoco (Fire) / Co-production
Raha Shirazi - Canada/Italy - 2014/12’- No Dialogue Fiction - TIFF 2914 / QUEBEC PREMIERE > November
1st - 14:30 - Phi Centre - A celebration of traditions
and myths, Fuoco (Fire) is a story embedded in
the Iranian culture and directly connected to the
representation of fire in the Zoroastrian religion and
Persian literature.
Burnt Grass
Ray Wong - Canada - 2014/11’- English - Fiction
TIFF 2014 / QUEBEC PREMIERE > November 1st 14:30 - Phi Centre - A young couple, Sally and Jack,
discover a strange phenomenon in their garden that
duplicates organic life...
Ghost of OT301
Makino Takashi - Japan - 2014/9’ - No dialogue Experimental / WORLD PREMIERE
> November 1st - 14:30 - Phi Centre
An experimental film by japanese filmmaker Makino
Takashi.
The Urban Suite
Sébastien Simon/Forest Ian Etsler - Corée - 2014/12:30’coréen/anglais/français (S.T. anglais) - Documentaire
WORLD PREMIERE > November 1st - 14:30 - Phi Centre
A historic residential district within the ancient Seoul
city walls, Gyonam-dong embodies South Korea’s
transformation from the pre-Japanese Occupation
era to the modern democratization.
Point de Mire
Ivy Yukiko Ishihara Oldford - Canada - 2014/13’français - Fiction
> 1er novembre - 14:30 - Centre Phi - Director in attendance
Chaque année, deux grandes amies se retrouvent
dans un chalet pour pratiquer la chasse, mais cette
fois, leur réunion ne sera pas comme les autres.
Radicalizing Intimacy in Queer Asian Canadian
Youth
Stephanie Fung /Joanna Yang - Canada - 2014/8:50’English - Documentary -VAFF2014/QUEBEC PREMIERE
> November 1st - 14:30 - Phi Centre
How do multiple identities (Canadian, youth, Asian,
queer) intersect and shape the way we navigate
our world? This film explores how six queer Asian
Canadian youth redefine and radicalize the concept
of intimacy.
Kimchi Fried Dumplings
Jason Karman - Canada - 2013/35’- English - Fiction
CAAMFest 2013 / LA Asian Pacific Film Festival 2013
QUEBEC PREMIERE > November 1st - 14:30 - Phi
Centre. An Asian Canadian man comes home with a
new boyfriend for Christmas to find his younger
brother, who is also gay, resentful for being left to
care for their aging parents.
The Underground
Michelle Latimer - Canada - 2014/14’ - English - Drama
TIFF 2014 / CANNES 2014 / QUEBEC PREMIERE
> November 1st - 14:30 - Phi Centre
An Iranian refugee experiences North American life
by imagining himself as a cockroach. Inspired by Rawi
Hage’s bestselling novel Cockroach.
ATELIER DE L’ESTHÉTIQUE CINÉMATOGRAPHIQUE /
CAMERA AESTHETICS WORKSHOP
30 oct. - Musée des Beaux-arts / Oct. 30 - Museum of
Fine Arts > 13:00
Étude portée sur l’esthétique cinématographique
des plans séquences des ouvrages de trois cinéastes
taiwanais renommés.
Case-study on camera aesthetics, the long-take,
of works produced by three Taiwanese master
filmmakers.
- Guest Speaker: Peter Rist
- Clips from: Le voyage d’un ballon rouge (Hou Hsiaohsien, 2007) and A Brighter Summer Day (Edward
Yang, 1991)
- Conférencier invité: Erik Bordeleau
Séquences tirés de: Visage (Tsai Ming-liang, 2009)
Erik Bordeleau explorera quelques aspects éthiques
et esthétiques de cet art de l’attention immanente
pratiqué par Tsai: Comment s’opère pour lui le passage
de la vie à l’art, et de l’art à la vie?
GRATUIT / FREE
LABORATOIRE: recherche créative / PRACTITIONER’S
LAB: research creation
feat. Mi-jeong Lee
Oct. 31 - Museum of Fine Arts > 11:00
A force of living takes place in relation to ‘a life’ that is a
continuation of multiple moments.
Collaborated artists; Yong-dai Choi (Painter), Jiyoon
Jung (Photographer)
*The Practitioner’s Lab (PL) offers an exhibition space
to artists who work in research creation in media and
multidisciplinary arts that have a relation with Asian
content.
Video installation: More Than Here: midnight to 4AM
GRATUIT / FREE
ÉVÈNEMENT EVENT
Indiegogo:http://igg.me/at/onepiecefilmchallenge
THE GREEN MIND
A Special Closing Film for One Piece Film
Toby Tatum - UK - 2013/3’ - Video Art
Quebec Premiere : Special Screening / projection spéciale
Enter The Green Mind, where lizards pose in secret
grottoes, bats circle twilit jungles and snakes entwine
amongst flowers.
DAYDREAMING
Mi-jeong Lee - Canada - 2014/5’
Commissioned project
Introduction film à l’événement Plan séquence.
Introduction to the One Piece Film event.
REMERCIEMENTS special thanks
Musée des Beaux-arts, Centre Phi, Céline Pereira et/
and SenseLab (Concordia University), Alanna Thain
and Cinema Out of the Box (McGill University), Ville de
Montréal, Conseil des arts du Canada, Kyozon, Le Cristal
Chinois, Centre des organismes communautaires COCo,
Métropole Films, Vidéographe, Indiestory Inc., Meditating
Bunny Studio Inc., Rice and Beans Media, Street Films,
L’Inis, Nadia Rousseau and Le Mois de l’Histoire des Noirs,
Jacques Desbiens, Joanne Lalonde, Veena Gokhale, Toni
Pope, Michael Toppings, Céline Pereira, Nadia Rousseau,
Anuj Khosla, Janet Lamb, Alanna Than, Yung Chang, Erin
Manning, Tout l’équipe d’ AmérAsia 2014 et bénévoles.
Remerciement à tous nos artistes, directeurs, compagnies de
distribution et conférenciers invités / Special thanks to all our
artists, filmmakers, distribution houses, and invited guests.