Maydays at meta - invitation/new program
We celebrate the beginning of May with a week full of cinema delicacies.
*Tonite's film LILYA FOREVER (Sat, 7PM) by Swedish star director Lukas
Moodysson might be the best feature film about human trafficking ever.
* Tomorrow (Sun, 7PM) we are screening Peter Jackson's MEET THE FEEBLES.
Whoever was fascinated by his LORD OF THE RINGS trilogy must come and
watch this earlier work, which is actually a "Muppet Show on Acid"...
More infos below.
* Upcoming is also the exhibition ONE X SUITCASE (Friday, 7th, 6PM),
which connects 13 Asian artists including the Cambodians KONG VOLLAK
and CHAT PIERSATH. A flyer is attached.
We are still located at #6, Street 264, south of Wat Botum.
All the best,
your Meta House team and
Nico Mesterharm
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SAT, 01/05
"LILYA FOREVER!": THE NIGHTMARISH VIOLATION OF INNOCENCE
A harrowing depiction of the human trafficking trade in Europe and
Russia, LILYA 4-EVER (2002, 109mins) should be required viewing for
teenagers everywhere. While several feature films and television
endeavors have reached out to spotlight this nightmarish violation of
trust and innocence, director Lukas Moodysson places the audience into
the traumatized shoes of the lead character, making the viewer feel
every last wallop of sexual invasion and cruelty. A harsh dramatic
brew, the film is a monumental, abrasive document of a young life
flushed down the drain; it's an exceptional, deafening humanitarian
alarm that will continue to overwhelm and outrage for years to come.
SUN, 02/05
THE MOST ECCENTRIC MUPPET SHOW: "MEET THE FEEBLES"
Peter Jackson's MEET THE FEEBLES (1989, 93mins) is a gleefully rude,
decidedly adult comedy about the backstage goings-on amongst an
eccentric group of puppets. Romantic jealousies, drug deals gone
wrong, murders and other scandals reaching their climax on the evening
of the big show. The film's extremely dark sense of humor is supported
by a winningly irreverent attitude. This perverted "Muppet Show" has
become a cult classic, and has enjoyed great popularity since
Jackson's success with the "Lord of the Rings" films. During his
acceptance speech at the 2004 Academy Awards, Peter Jackson mentioned
the movie, noting that it had been "wisely overlooked by the Academy."
TUE, 04/05
THE NEW KHMER DANCE NIGHT: REAM EYSO AMD MONI MEKHALA
The Khmer Arts Ensemble is a classical dance company based in Takhmao,
Cambodia. A world premiere screening of the Khmer Arts Ensemble's film
of its standing-room-only performance at the Chenla Theatre during the
French Cultural Center's Lakhon Festival in September 2009, REAM EYSO
AND MONI MEKHALA (2009, 45 mins) introduces you to the ancient story
of a greedy "giant" and the goddess of the seas, told through stunning
classical dance and gorgeous costumes. Khmer Arts Artistic Director
Sophiline Cheam Shapiro choreographed the re-staging of this old tale.
The film was shot by Chan Sopheap, San Phalla and Kate O'Hara and
edited by Chan Sopheap. Tony Phim-Shapiro presents the evening.
WED, 05/05
ONLY AT META HOUSE! "KAMPUCHEA: DEATH & REBIRTH"
This is the first documentary film (1979, 90mins) after the Khmer
Rouge, shot by famous GDR filmmakers Walter Heynowski and Gerhard
Scheumann. The scenes filmed during spring 1979 are part of history:
Phnom Penh left to rampant nature, heaps of skulls and destroyed
faces. The reports from the survivors are moving and harrowing.
Heynowski/Scheumann are rated among the most productive and best-known
GDR documentarists and belonged to the few GDR filmmakers that
attracted interest from abroad. Modeling themselves in the tradition
of Soviet film pioneer Dziga Vertov, they perceived documentary films
as an instrument of political intervention.
THU, 06/05
LIVING IN EMERGENCY: STORIES OF DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS
Screendocs Special: In the war-zones of Liberia and Congo, four
volunteers with Doctors Without Borders struggle to provide emergency
medical care under extreme conditions. With different levels of
experience, each volunteer must find their own way to face the limits
of their idealism. LIVING IN EMERGENCY (2008, 93mins) by Mark Hopkins
is a window into the seldom portrayed and less-than glamorous side of
humanitarian aid work. It explores a world that is challenging,
complex, and fraught with dilemmas. Also screening: The Cambodian
health docs A HEALTHIER TOMORROW and PAY OR DIE – produced by the
M.E.T.A. film school with support from the Goethe Institute.
FRI, 07/05
THE REFLECTIONS OF PERSONAL ENCOUNTERS: "ONE X SUITCASE"
Ernest Chan, Stephanie Cheng, Steve Chua, Tan Seow Wei, Supachai
Sartsara, Morakot Ketklao, Tawatchai Puntusawasdi, Qi Yi, Song Yue, Su
Dan Yu, Chath Piersath, Kong Vollak: 13 Asian contemporary artists
join forces for this travelling exhibition, which marked its debut in
Singapore and has since travelled to Thailand, Malaysia and China. All
works housed in suitcases reveal a whole new collection of thoughts,
experiences and observations as they travel along. At every stop,
native artists are invited to participate. This group show is a
reflection of the personal encounters and the imaginary preconceived
idea of different locations and landscapes.
SAT, 08/05
FICTION OR REALITY? ALEX JONES AND HIS "OBAMA DECEPTION"
Probably the main political impact of the news that the Nobel
Committee has pronounced US president Barack Obama "the one" is that
it will enhance his international standing, giving a major boost to
his foreign policy agenda. But it has also forced a debate over what,
precisely, Obama has accomplished. US director Alex Jones has made
several films exposing the Bush agenda and approaches the Obama
Administration's plans from the same non-partisan point of view
looking past the front man in the White House to the real owners on
Wall Street. Tonight we invite you to watch THE OBAMA DECEPTION (2008,
11mins) and FALL OF THE REPUBLIC, THE PRESIDENCY OF BARACK H. OBAMA
(2009, 144mins).
SUN, 09/05
PLUNGING INTO AN ALTERNATE REALITY: "SPIRITED AWAY"
The highest grossing film in Japanese box-office history, Hayao
Miyazaki's SPIRITED AWAY (2003, 125mins) is a dazzling film that
reasserts the power of drawn animation in creating fantasy worlds.
Like Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz and Lewis Carroll's Alice, Chihiro
plunges into an alternate reality. On the way to their new home, the
petulant adolescent and her parents find what they think is a deserted
amusement park. Her parents stuff themselves until they turn into
pigs, and Chihiro discovers they're trapped in a resort for
traditional Japanese gods and spirits. The result is a moving and
magical journey, told with consummate skill by one of the masters of
contemporary animation.
posted by Jinja @ 4:19 PM
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