Tuesday, January 15, 2008

German Installations and Land-Art artists

Dear Art Lovers and Friends,

Please be invited to meet German Installations and Land-Art artists
Sebastian Brandt tonight, Tuesday Jan 15, 7 PM @ Meta House.

Born 1981 in Erfurt/Germany, Brand has finished his studies of Free
Arts at the famous Bauhaus University in in Weimar/Germany 2007. The
young German artist traveled several times to Nepal and uses these
experiences within his work, that consists of installations and
land-art. Together with his former teacher Horst Hoheisel he is an
artist-in-residence @ Meta House for the "Khmer Rouge Art Project".


WED, 16/01, 7 PM        KHMIX IT.
Cambodian Traditional Music
by students of the NGO "Cambodian Living Arts"

THU, 17/01, 7 PM        * GERMAN CINEMA NIGHT
"Schwarze Katze, weisser Kater"
(Only in German Language)

FRI, 18/01, 7 PM        PP DOCFEST
"The Revolution Will Not be Televised" by Bartley/O'Briain (Ireland)
Venezuela, 2002: People power reversed a military coup and reinstated
elected President Hugo Chavez in Venezuela. TV station RCTV that had
backed the coup refused to televise these extraordinary events. Award-
winning documentary - presented by journalist/author Tom Fawthrop,
 who
will be open for questions after the screening.

SAT, 19/01, 7 PM        FOCUS CAMBODIA
"To Touch The Soul" by Ryan Goble (USA)
70-minute feature-length documentary: CSULB Professor Carlos Silveira
(artist, educator, social activist) wants to bring a sense of joy to
impoverished children in Cambodia who are affected by HIV/AIDS. He has
recruited 27 American university students to join him as part of a
pilot program in using drawing and painting to help these children
express wishes and desires. (Web site:
www.totouchthesoul.com.
Director/editor Ryan Goble will be present at the screening (Q&A).

SUN, 20/01, 7 PM        SET IN ASIA
"Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance" by Park Chan-Wook (Korea)
A masterpiece of the Korean star director ("Old Boy"): Ryu, a
deaf-mute, works in a factory to support his ailing sister who is in
desperate need of a kidney transplant.  He contacts a black market
organ dealer who agrees to sell him a kidney for $10,000. But the
transaction goes terribly wrong and tips the story into a violent
cascade of murder, vengeance, and suicide. In Korean with English
subtitles.  2002, 2 hours, 1 min.

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