Meta-House Update
Dear Friends of Meta House!
We would like to invite you for our new EXHIBITION OPENING
this Tuesday, December 02 @ 6 PM under the roof of the Phnom Penh Photo Festival
FRÉDÉRIC LECLOUX - "L'USURE DU MONDE"
In 1953-54, the Swiss writer Nicolas Bouvier and his painter friend Thierry Vernet travel in a Fiat Topolino from Belgrade to Afghanistan. L'Usure du Monde tells the story of this 17-month journey filled with wonder. Nicolas Bouvier as a traveler is obsessively slow and frugal, but at the same time, he has an insatiable desire for the real and for knowledge. There is an insistent, heady passion for being in the world, but as well, a certain ease and comfort in melancholy. Bouvier the writer has a way of honing in on the comical nature of daily life, and, in three adjectives, managing to give it universal weight. Frédéric Lecloux: "I was so moved by the luminous perfection with which Nicolas Bouvier crystallized this journey in such a perfect economy of words, that I couldn't read anything else for years. I had to exorcize this book. The only response possible was a departure."
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From Dec 3 to Dec 7 META HOUSE presents THE GENDER FILM FESTIVAL
A series of new films on gender issues and women empowerment .
Pls. show ur support, come and join the festival: Program at the bottom of this mail.
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On Wednesday, 8 PM we are hosting a "UXO Special" in coop. with UNDP.
Did you know cluster bombs dropped in Cambodia 30 years ago left around 6 million unexploded bombs that continue to claim the lives and limbs of innocent Cambodians today? Watch short films and hear from experts about the devastating impact of these indiscriminate weapons on the day the historic International Convention to Ban Cluster Munitions is signed in Oslo. Alex Hiniker from UNDP will be present for Q&A.
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GENDER FILMFEST PROGRAM
WED, 03/12, 6 PM: THE GENDERED LENSE: "LUSIA - A DAUGHTER OF FATULULIK"
After a short film on a women's empowerment radio programme, EMPOWERING WOMEN OVER CAMBODIA'S AIRWAVES (2008, 4min), we will present the story of LUSIA- A DAUGHTER OF FATULULIK (2006, 56 min.) Lusia Guterres (24) is a mother of three, member of the opposition party and the the head of her village. Filmmaker Ruth Streicher and Saumura Tioulong (SODECO) will be @ Meta House to discuss women's political participation in Cambodia afterwards in coop. with Heinrich-Boell-Foundation
THUR, 04/12, 8PM "THE POWER TO CHANGE"
Feature film about domestic violence made by GTZ Promotion of Women's Rights in the Ministry of Women's Affairs Cambodia: Sok knows how to be a real man at least he thinks he does. But when his son and family come for a visit and notice his wife Thida's bruises, and the neighbours start to talk about the domestic violence in the home, Sok's whole lifestyle is called into question. Maybe there are other ways of proving his manhood that do not involve the fist ?
FRI, 05/12, 8PM "UP THE YANGTZE"
A compelling doc film by Yung Chang about development and dams in modern China seen through the eyes of a girl, who is leaving her family to work on a cruiseliner (2007, 109 min.)
SAT, 06/12, 8PM "FOOTBALL UNDER COVER"
Tehran in April 2006: The first official friendly takes place between the Iranian women's football team and a local Berlin girl's team, in front of more than 1000 cheering female fans. The entire stadium is electric, charged with a high voltage of girl power. A couple of men hang around in front of the gates, trying to sneak a peek over the fence. They are barred from entering today The documentary "Football Under Cover" (86 min, 2008) turned out to be the surprise tip of this year's Berlin Film Festival. It tells the story behind this unusual meeting between a multicultural women's soccer club from Berlin and the Iranian national women's team. One of the directors, David Assmann, will be there for Q+A afterwards. (Germany, 2008, 86min) in coop. with Heinrich-Boell-Foundation
SUN, 07/12, 8P PERSEPOLIS
Persepolis won the Jury Prize at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. Based on Marjane Satrapi's autobiographical graphic novel, this animation movie follows a young girl as she comes of age against the backdrop of the Iranian Revolution, which goes horribly wrong with Islamic fundamentalists taking power and creating a new theocratic tyranny themselves. Plus screening of three Khmer animation shorts by Phare Ponleu Selapak
META HOUSE
Street 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,
email: mesterharm@gmx.net
Street 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,
email: mesterharm@gmx.net
posted by Jinja @ 12:39 PM
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