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Venues:
(1)
Ateneo De Manila University
Faura AVR, between Dela Costa and PIPAC
Seating Capacity: 80-100
(2)
MOGWAI FILM BAR
Cubao Expo (formerly Marikina Shoe Exchange)
Romulo Avenue, Araneta Center
Seating Capacity (40)
November 18
Ateneo
10:30am:
Mysterious Object at Noon (Apichatpong Weerasethakul) 85 minutes
Related paper:
Nathalie Boehler, Universität Zürich, Switzerland:
Exploring the Impact of Regional Storytelling in Contemporary Thai Film
*(Panel 10: Aesthetics of Indie Cinema)
1:00pm:
Serbis (Brillante Mendoza) 90 minutes
Related papers:
Gary C. Devilles, Ateneo de Manila University:
The Pornography of Poverty in Serbis and Tribu
*(Panel 1: Contemporary Philippine Independent Cinema)Alvin B. Yapan, Ateneo:
The Aesthetic of the Meandering Camera: An Analysis of three Filipino Independent Films
*(Panel 1: Contemporary Philippine Independent Cinema)Related panel:
*Panel 13: Dialogues with Filmmakers II: The Aesthetics of Poverty
3:00pm:
Tribu (Jim Libiran) 95 minutes
Related paper:
Gary C. Devilles, Ateneo de Manila University:
The Pornography of Poverty in Serbis and Tribu
*(Panel 1: Contemporary Philippine Independent Cinema)Related panel:
*Panel 13: Dialogues with Film makers II: The Aesthetics of Poverty
5:00pm:
Ayat-Ayat Cinta aka Verses of Love (Hanung Bramantyo) 130 minutes
Related paper:
Tito Imanda, New York University:
Islamic Cinema in Indonesia: God Words Using Market or the Other Way Around
*(Panel 6: Cinema in Indonesia)
Mogwai
4:30pm:
They Call Her…Cleopatra Wong (Bobby Suarez) 110 minutes
Related panel:
*Panel 5: The other Independents: B-Movies and Grindhouse Films from the Philippines
7:00pm:
Blissfully Yours (Apichatpong Weerasethakul) 122 minutes
Related paper:
May A. Ingawanij, Westminster University:
Sounds from life and the redemption of experience in Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s films
*(Panel 10: Aesthetics of Indie Cinema)
9:30pm:
*Heremias Book Two: The Legend of Tagabulag Island (Lav Diaz)
* 2-hour rough-cutRelated panel:
Panel 8: Dialogues with film makers I: Lav Diaz
November 19
Ateneo
10:30am:
Post-Modern Kundiman (short film/Dir: Elvin Valerio)
Mansyon (short film/Dir: Joel Ruiz)
Putot (short film/Dir: Jeck Cogama)
Related paper:
Elvin Amerigo Valerio, De La Salle University Dasmariñas:
The Cinema of the Other ‘Other’: National and Cultural Identity in Filipino Alternative Cinema
*(Panel 1: Contemporary Philippine Independent Cinema)
12:30pm:
Ranchero (Michael Cardoz)
Related papers:
Patrick Campos, University of the Philippines:
Independent as discussed, defined, refined in the Cinemalaya Film Congress
*(Panel 9 – Indie Cinema and Audiences)Alvin B. Yapan, Ateneo:
The Aesthetic of the Meandering Camera: An Analysis of three Filipino Independent Films
*(Panel 10: Aesthetics of Indie Cinema)
2:30pm:
Love for Share (Nia Dinata) 120 minutes
Related paper:
Kimberly Twarog, ULCA:
What Makes a Film “Feminist?” Reviewing Feminist Tactics in Nia Dinata’s Chants of Lotus and Love for share
*(Panel 12: Gender Issues in Independent Cinema)
5:00pm:
Works by Political Film Collectives
Related panel:
*Panel 12: Political Film Collectives
7:00pm:
The Gravel Road (Deepak Kumaron Menon)
Related paper:
Wan Zawawi Ibrahim, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Malaya:
The “Indian Story” in Malaysia: Positioning the films of Malaysian Indie film maker Deepak Menon in the “National Cinema” discourse
*(Panel 3: Independent Film in Indonesia and Malaysia)
Mogwai
4:30pm:
Ploning (Dante Nico Garcia) 106 minutes
Related paper:
Katrina Stuart Santiago, University of the Philippines:
Acts of Defiance: Or When Superstars Lend Themselves to the Notion of Independence
*(Panel 1: Contemporary Philippine Independent Cinema)Veronica Isla, University of Asia and the Pacific:
On the reception of Microcinemas in the Philippines
*(Panel 9 – Indie Cinema and Audiences)
6:30pm:
Isan Special (Mingmongkol Sonakul) 112 minutes
Related paper:
Nathalie Boehler,Universität Zürich, Switzerland:
Exploring the Impact of Regional Storytelling in Contemporary Thai Film
*(Panel 10: Aesthetics of Indie Cinema)
8:30pm:
Love Conquers All (Tan Chui Mui) 90 minutes
Related paper:
Ma Ran, University of Hong Kong:
Circulating a Minor Asian Cinema: Brandnaming Dahuang Pics at the International Film Fest Circuit
*(Panel 11: The Global and the Local)
Tomorrow May 22 at 14h00 on Théâtre Croisette (50 La Croisette) in Cannes is the premiere of a new film by a Filipino filmmaker for whom I’ve been both biggest critic and biggest fan. In a number of ways he and I grew up in cinema together (still growing) over the past several years, and so it is with a measure of pride that I look at what he has accomplished – regarding this acceptance, but even more so the maturity of the work – and with a measure of hope that I look forward to the future – for he is but 24 years of age this year, and there is much more cinema to come. A cinema that, I believe, is slowly helping to fulfill that which Avellana so desired, that: “On the screen, we’ll see the way we talk, the way we make love, the way we die.”
1. What sort of hopes do you place in love?
Luis Buñuel: If I’m in love, all hopes. It not, none.
(From the French. Interview published in Le Revolution surrealiste, no.12, December 15, 1929. Reprinted in An Unspeakable Betrayal: The Selected Writings of Luis Buñuel).
