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INDIE HALO-HALO

a weird weekend of recent (and not-so-recent) filipino indie flicks
mixed and matched by mervin espina
september 2 to 4 @ HELP university college, pusat bandar damansara , kuala lumpur
enquiries: 012-2255136

> september 2 – friday < 07:30 PM rox 'n' roll
some shorts by multi-awarded indie film legend Roxlee, including the cult indie classic Tronong Puti and his most recent work Left Turn

Tronong Puti
English title: White Throne | 1983 | 8 min | Super-8 | experimental

Juan Gapang
English title: Krawl | 1987 | 6 min | Super-8 | experimental

Hitting Two Birds With One Stone
2005 | 5 min | miniDV | music video

Juan Kaliwa
English title: Left Turn | 2005| 16 min | miniDV | animation

08:10 PM southern shorts
two fresh films by two fresh filmmakers from the Philippine south

Apple
Sherad Anthony Sanchez | 2004 | 11 min | miniDV
Screened at International Film Festival Rotterdam 2005, this film is a study on depravity in the eyes of a young mananapatan (death chanter), as she struggles with an apathetic life and learns to serenade death.

Binaliw
Kris Villarino | 2002 | 9 min | miniDV
Set in Binaliw, a poor town in the outskirts of Cebu City, this short won Best Regional Entry at the 15th Gawad CCP for Alternative Film and Video.

08:35 PM black nazarene

Robert Nery | 2003 | 95 min | miniDV
A film that takes us inside the moral life and outside to its political and historical context, the filmmaker, an expatriate Filipino, entwines his encounters with the crucified with his own reflections and asides on the Philippines.

> september 3 – saturday < 02:00 PM take a whiff of khavn's shorts
8 shorts in no apparent order, with no apparent theme, and a disparately wide range of styles by the resident madman of Pinoy indie cinema—Khavn de la Cruz

Dinuguan
English title: Blood Stew | 2004 | 13 min

I'm Not Batman
2005 | 5:37

Lata at Tsinelas
English title: Can and Slippers | 2004 | 2 min

Small Ali
2004 | 7 min

Mondomanila: Institute of Poets
2004 | 15 min

5 Shorts
18 min

John Cage
6 min

Barong Brothers
2003 | 10 min

03:30 PM piNoise
choice music videos from maverick young filmmaker Quark Henares, plus his experimental short film Childstar (7 min)

04:30 PM bloodbanks and ballrooms
2 shorts by 3 up and coming young women filmmakers

Dansport
Carmi Raymundo & Kristine Mariel Icban | 14 min | 16mm
A superbly-shot poetic narrative about competitive ballroom dancing and a male dancer on the edge.

Blood Bank
Pam Miras | 25 min miniDV
Three hapless characters realize that blood isn't always thicker than water in this black and white short film, which recently won Best Philippine Short Film, .MOV Digital Film Festival 2005, and Best Screenplay, Cinemalaya Digital Film Festival 2005.

followed by a 15 min break

05:30 PM s t eXposed
a selection of award-winning short pieces from socially-active, multimedia art collective Southern Tagalog Exposure, whose films are the product of their integration and interaction with workers, peasants, urban poor and indigenous people's who allowed them to document their pain, struggle and persistence within a movement of resistance and liberation that they have inevitably embraced as their own
(www.stexposure.tk)

Alingawngaw ng mga Punglo
English title: Echo of Bullets | 2003 | 48 min | miniDV | short documentary

Red Saga
2004 | 14 min | 16 mm | poetic short film

On Potok
2002 | 3 min | miniDV | music video

There's Blood in Your Coffee
2003 | 30 min | miniDV | short documentary

Awit ng KMU
English title: Song of the KMU | 3 min | miniDV | music video

Agno
2002 | 28 min | miniDV | short documentary

Tuparin Natin ang Banta ng Ating Panahon
English Title: Fulfill the Warning of Our Time | 2005 | 4 min | miniDV | music video

followed by a 30 min break

08:00 PM more piNoise
explore the wacky side of pinoy culture with award-winning music video director RA Rivera

09:05 PM john torres in love
bursting into the international film scene this year, digital filmmaker John Torres cuts close to the bone, exploring love, loss and longing with rapid-fire editing and driving poetic narrative

Tawidgutom (3 min)
Salat (12 min)

09:30 PM ang pamilyang kumakain ng lupa

English title: The Family that Eats Soil | 2004 | 75 min
A strange and dysfunctional family sits down three times a day to a meal of soil. Outside the meal times, the individual family members experience extravagant, absurd adventures. Here, Khavn tries to paint a dystopian portrait, a phantasmagoric reversal of Filipino values—a wicked allegory for a people still walking and breathing under an unending nightmare.

indie wild man Khavn de la Cruz (pronounced "Khan," by his mother) has been reaping critical acclaim, awards, and enemies for his absurd, experimental cinema at international film festival everywhere—first world, third world, and beyond
(www.kamiasroad.com)

> september 4 – sunday < 03:00 PM laboratorio ermitaño
distinguished by his visual and aural sensuousness underpinned by a skewed, but rigorous logic, Tad Ermitaño's works have been shown in numerous venues, including the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, The Image Forum theater in Tokyo, The Earl-Lu Gallery in Singapore, and The Hong Kong International Film Festival

Hulikotekan v.2.1 (7 min)
Sausage (14 min)
Cathode Jam (11:52)
The Retrochronolgical Transfer of Information (10 min)
/mutation (13 min)

04:00 PM pantasya pinoy
2 shorts with a smattering of fantasy and horror, pinoy style

Nak' Nang
Topel Lee | 2004 | 5 min
Set in post-apocalyptic Manila, a male character tries to be a hero, and a "damsel in distress" seems to need saving.

Blind Beauty
Melvin Calingo | 7 min
A stop-motion fairy tale about one woman's vanity and lots of eyes.

04:15 PM basal banar: sacred ritual of truth

Auraeus Solito (Kanakan-Balintagos) | 2002 | 120 min | 16mm
The product of seven years of re-discovering his roots in the Palaw'an tribe, this film can best be described "like a Tultol, a chant sung to tell a story—like the scent of the Lumpat Pagar flowers, rare and mystical, whose petals are used for the charm of the Parimanis or Absolute Beauty to invoke the Diwata—like a Biday, interwoven fibres to create a strong and sturdy mat."

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