FASSBINDER, KESEY, HATS & MORE: CINEMA & ART @ META
META HOUSEStreet 264, #6 - Sangkat Chaktomuk, Khan Daun Penh,
Phnom Penh, Kingdom of Cambodia
Fixed +855- (0)23 – 224 140, Mobil +855- (0) 12- 607 465
Homepage: www.meta-house.com
Dear Film Friends!
The META HOUSE open-air-rooftop is a place to relax, converse, enjoy some
drinks, food and film screenings, from documentaries to features (in English
or engl. subtitles).
This week brings you
+ an early masterpiece by German film legend RW Fassbinder (Thursday)
+ a cool German documentary on 1970s US counter-culture (Friday)
+ festival hit NICE HAT! about Cambodians and their headgear (Saturday)
+ our Sunday feature "set in Asia" by Vietnamese director Tran Anh Hung.
More infos below. Entrance is free.
Hope to see you at META House.
Best, Nico Mesterharm
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THUR, 01/11, 7PM PIONEERS IN INGOLSTADT
German Film Night (German with English subtitles): Although made for German
TV, the film expanded the reach of director Rainer Werner Fassbinder's
growing reputation as his first film to be invited to Cannes and the New
York Film Festival. The film depicts the exploits of a group of German
"pioneers" (soldiers sent to work on public projects) who are assigned to
build a wooden bridge in the out-of-the-way town of Ingolstadt. They seek
relief from the boredom of their project, and lives, through alcohol, sexual
adventures with local women, and intermittent acts of violence. (87 min,
1971)
FRI, 02/11, 7 PM EDGE CITY – The Story of the Merry Pranksters
Well-researched documentary by German filmmakers Gregor Wille and Michael
Reuter about the pioneers of the US-"Counter-Culture" and "Hippie Movement".
One main figure was Ken Kesey, known as author of 'One flew over the cuckoo's
nest". He hired him out as a guinea pig for military drug experiments. After
that he stopped writing and set of with a group of friends, known as the
"Merry Pranksters" in a painted school bus on a cross country tour across
the USA in 1964. (97 min, 2007)
SAT, 03/11, 7 PM NICE HAT!
Focus Cambodia: Nice Hat! is an expedition through the life and times of the
SE Asian Kingdom, seen entirely through hats and headgear. European Press
wrote "Finding complexity by the simplest of means". Canadian filmmaker
David Brisbin describes through a compelling way Cambodia, which ones did
not see before. (86 min, 2004)
SUN, 04/11 ,7 PM THE VERTICAL RAY OF THE SUN
Feature Film "Set in Asia" presented by Florianne Wild, Ph.D. Third film
from Vietnamese writer/director Tran Anh Hung (after The Scent of Green
Papaya and Cyclo), and is a hypnotic look at one month in the life of a
Vietnamese family. Tran focuses more on ambient noise than anything else,
and as a result it feels as if the viewer is in Vietnam with these people.
Filmed in Hanoi and at Ha Long Bay. (112 min, 2001)
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NEXT WEEK:
NEW ART EXHIBITION:
'FLOWER OF BATTAMBANG'
comics and visual art by Em Satya.
Exhibition opening:
Tuesday, 6th of November, 6PM
Illustrator Em Satya has worked for decades in almost every field of
illustration. He has drawn for children's magazine "Mom" and "Mab", been a
cartoonist for "Rasmei Kampuchea", and a cover artist for novels. Foreigners
have seen translations of his cartoons in the pages of Cambodge Soir under
the pen name 'Nono'. Cambodians know him from his popular comic adaptations
of stories "Sovannasam" and "Sopaset" and more recently, his paintings for
the Buddhist Institute's series of folktales. His most recent book is the
graphic novel "Bopha Battambang" (Flower of Battambang) begun over a decade
ago, and completed this year. He is currently working on painted art for
children's books.
Gallery open Thursdays to Sundays, 6PM to Midnight
Special appointment by phone: 012 607 465
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SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT
"LOOKING BACK - LOOKING AHEAD"
10 Mini-Documentaries on Khmer Rouge History and Reconciliation
DMC 2007, 50 min.
The films were produced by students of the Department of Media and
Communication at the Royal University of Phnom Penh as part of their
training in broadcast journalism.
They include profiles of Khmer Rouge victims and perpetrators as well as
short documentaries about artists and medics during the Pol Pot time. Some
of the students joined outreach activities for the upcoming Khmer Rouge
Tribunal. Others interviewed their own relatives and compare family life
during the Khmer Rouge regime with their own current situation.
The films will be screened at the French Cultural Center Cinema
#218, St. 184 (Kéo Chéa) on Saturday, November 3, 18h30.
The entrance is free.
posted by Jinja @ 11:58 AM
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