UNAFF FILMFESTIVAL TODAY/TMR & TRANSFORMATION @ META
Dear Arts/Lover,Please join us for two special events at META HOUSE!
* the first UNAFF Traveling Film Festival Phnom Penh
Tonight Fri, July 18 and tomorrow Sat, July 19, starting @ 7PM.
FRI, 18/07 DOUBLE DOC FEATURE
1. DIGITAL DUMP: EXPORTING RE-USE AND ABUSE TO AFRICA
If you have ever wondered what happens to a computer when you get rid of it, this is the film for you. If you are concerned about what could happen to Cambodia, please come and join us.
2. ON A TIGHTROPE: About the Uyghur, Muslim minority in Western China.
(23 minutes, by Jim Puckett, precedes On a Tightrope)
SAT, 19/07 EN ROUTE TO BAGHDAD
This film tells the story of one person's effort to make a difference as part of the United Nations, and is as much a story about the UN as it is about the man, Sergio Vieira de Mello. (56 minutes, by Simone Duarte, Ane Soanes and Kristine Candeso)
* Next TUESDAY, JULY 22 @ 6 PM opens the group exhibition TRANSFORMATION featuring 6 USA based and 6 Cambodian contemporary artists.
Please come and join us!
More information below.
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FRI, 18/07
THE FIRST UNAFF TRAVELING FILM FESTIVAL PHNOM PENH
DOUBLE Feature
DIGITAL DUMP: EXPORTING RE-USE AND ABUSE TO AFRICA
If you have ever wondered what happens to a computer when you get rid of it, this is the film for you. It traces the computers from North America and Europe to West Africa, one of many regions that is on the receiving end of an escalating global trade in toxic, obsolete discarded computers. If you are concerned about what could happen to Cambodia, please come and join us. (23 minutes, by Jim Puckett, precedes On a Tightrope)
SAT, 19/07
FIRST UNAFF TRAVELING FILM FESTIVAL PHNOM PENH
EN ROUTE TO BAGHDAD
This film tells the story of one person's effort to make a difference as part of the United Nations, and is as much a story about the UN as it is about the man, Sergio Vieira de Mello. Anyone who was in Cambodia during UNTAC knows of Sergio, who oversaw the repatriation and later became Kofi Annan's special envoy to Iraq. This film traces his life, including his time in Mozambique, Cambodia and East Timor, as a metaphor for the evolving role of the United Nations. If you contemplate what role the UN should play, and whether one person can make a difference, this film is worth seeing.
(56 minutes, by Simone Duarte, Ane Soanes and Kristine Candeso)
TRANSFORMATION
…is a cross cultural exhibition of 8 Los Angeles-based artists and 8 Cambodian-based artists. Although the artists may use traditional and non-traditional materials, processes or aesthetics to set the initial grounds or framework of the notion of familiarity within his or her installation, they re-contextualize these elements bringing the unfamiliar and unpredictable states into an inter-disciplinary fusion alive. By transcending the physical elements, the artist is able to reveal the hidden emotional, spiritual, and cultural underlying meanings to define, "What is the here and now?"
TRANSFORMATION explore these issues, along with an emphasis on portability of the installation, in which the exhibit will travel to Long Beach, CA for the Khmer New Year, April 2009 featuring artists, along with filmmakers, and writers, in a collaborative celebration.
posted by Jinja @ 9:08 PM
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