THIS WEEK ON CINEKATIPUNAN
September 3-8, 2007
Monday's program featured Canadian works MON AMIE ANA and MUSIQUES REBELLES AMERICAS, while Tuesday's Cinekatipunan program focuses on the works of Cordillera-based progressive multi-media group Tan-aw Productions.
Up on Wednesday, September 5, is Conrado's Cabinet, which will feature a film on the life of the late Spanish Art Nouveau architect Antonio Gaudi. Thursday's program on September 6 features a mix tape of 13 short works by Filipino-Canadian filmmaker/musician/performer. Friday's pick is a feature work by Rox Lee, Romeo Must Rock. Cinekatipunan on Saturday features campus-based filmmakers from Ateneo de Manila University and Colegio de San Juan Letran.
Held Mondays to Saturdays at Mag:net Café Katipunan, Cinekatipunan screenings start at 5:00 PM. While the film screenings are free, viewers are encouraged to make voluntary contributions for the honoraria of the featured filmmakers. For questions or comments about Cinekatipunan write to lisa.ito@gmail.com CC sinag_haraya@yahoo.com.
Cinekatipunan programs precede Mag:net Café's nightly holding of Live Performaces by well-known and emerging bands and musicians. Mag:net Café is located along Katipunan Avenue (fronting Miriam and Ateneo) in Quezon City. For more inquiries please call 9293191 or visit www.magnet.com.ph.
September 03 (Monday)
Canada’s Productions Multi-Monde:
MON AMIE ANA and MUSIQUES REBELLES AMERICAS
September 04 (Tuesday)
Tan-Aw Productions
September 05 (Wednesday)
Conrado’s Cabinet: Featuring ANTONIO GAUDI
Conrado's Cabinet is a special program of Ireland-based Filipino visual artist Conrado Velasco, featuring films on artists from around the globe who have made their mark in their chosen persuasions. Today's feature will be a film on the Spanish Art Nouveau architect Antonio Gaudi.
Conrado Velasco is a freelance photographer and art director. He also works in other disciplines such as product design, retail design, and branding strategies. ( From www.studioconrado.com).
September 06 (Thursday)
THE ROMEO CANDIDO MIX TAPE
The ROMEO CANDIDO MiX TAPE (49 mins)
An exploration of culture through music, dance, drama and media. Features works such as:
1. a sunday in the park (2003) – a Hi 8 video featuring Rona Figueroa. A beautiful actress, singer, writer, with Broadway credits and a penchant for longsword. The music plays a variation of the main kulingtan theme from the Singkil dance. The work documents Candido's experimentation with potential filmmaking techniques, including cheap in-camera effects, for an arnis film he was working on for the last three years.
2. Meditations For the Restless (2001)– Candido's first work to explore editing within a static image and the title track for his first solo E.P. "I was just learning final cut pro, on my G3, and discovered freeze frames, 1 frame cuts, dissolves, color grading. I started at 6 in the evening and finished 6 in the morning," he says of this.
3. KUTTIN KANDY (2001)– Candido's first project edited with FCP. A feature on Kuttin Kandy, one of the first and most feared female turntablists in the U.S and an ate to the thriving Filipino/a hip hop scene.
4. ST JAMESTOWN trailer and excerpt (2004) – A one hour television pilot about the most ethnically diverse neighborhood in Toronto Canada, featuring a cast composed of actual residents from the area and shot during a time when the neighborhood was experiencing terrible conflicts between youth and law enforcement.
5. Fool 4 Love (2007) –Footage from Candido's first children's commercial shot in the Philippines.
6. Lilac Cana (2002) –An exercise in overexposure and shadows, featuring the Filipino-Canadian artist who broke into the classical music scene in Toronto in 2000.
7. Snowhere (2007) – A DIY video shot recently during Candido's first winter back in Canada in three years.
8. The Kuya Medley (2003) – A docu-musical of the soul group KUYA performing in the executive offices of record labels in New York and hustling for a deal. Despite the undeniable talent, the industry couldn't commit to an all-Pinoy soul group. They had many supporters, from Wycleff, to Babyface, to Pharell, to Timbaland and beyond. Also an exercise in live music editing.
9. Purification by Fire (2002) – Members from The Fiesta Filipina Dance Troupe of Canada backstage before a performance in Pittsburg. This is an excerpt from DANCERS! PICK UP YOUR BAMBOOS! a 26 minute documentary about the history of the oldest Filipino Folkdance company in Canada.
10. Babylon is Falling Trailer (2001) – a spec trailer of a martial arts movie that was never, ever made.
11. Lolo's Child Music Video and excerpt (2001) – The very first Filipino feature film from Canada, and up to now, the only one. From Candido's Ishmael Bernal award -winning feature length film Lolo's Child. A film about dealing with death and domestic violence in an immigrant home.
12. Ka-Amulan (2002) – An impressionistic piece based on the kaamulan Filipino folkdance. Another excerpt from the documentary Dancers! Pick Up Your Bamboos!
13. Ang Pamana : The Inheritance extended trailer (2006) – This is Candaido's first feature film to be shot in the Philippines. A supernatural folktale about what happens when a balikbayan inherits land in deep dark Bulacan, shot in 35mm dolby digital.
September 07 (Friday)
Roxlee: ROMEO MUST ROCK
Romeo Must Rock (46min) Philippines, 2005 Synopsis The brother of the film maker as the Filipino Iggy Pop. Too fat, too old, but still a Wild Thing. Not just a portrait of a seedy rock musician. Roxlee clearly has feeling for old rockers, but now things are more personal. Rocker Romeo Lee is the film maker's brother, and his best days are behind him. Romeo is too fat and too old to play the Filipino Iggy Pop. But he just can't stop.
Roque Federizon Lee (1950, Naga City, Philippines), better known as Roxlee, started as a cartoonist and began making films in 1983. With his cynical humour and unconventional ideas, he became an icon of the Philippine underground cinema. [From <http://www.movfest.com/films.htm>]s
Director: Roxlee Production: Cinema Regla Camera: R.A. Rivera, Jun Sabayton, Maisa Demetillo, Ericson Ong Editor: Patrick and Paolo Almaden Cast: Romeo Lee and the Brown Briefs
September 08 (Saturday)
Ateneo Bluescreen and Colegio de San Juan de Letran
Biyahed Daya
Kalawakan
Buhay Kabayo
Elyen