MEMORIES OF A FORGOTTEN WAR at Mag:net Cafe

You are all invited to attend the Cinekatipunan screening of the film MEMORIES OF A FORGOTTEN WAR

The screening will be followed by poetry performances of visiting Fil-American poets and Kryp Yuson and a back to back musical performance of siblings Joey Ayala and Cynthia Alexander.

Friday, 12 January
5:30- 7 PM
Mag:net Cafe Katipunan
www.magnet.com.ph

Camilla Griggers and Sari Ll. Dalena: MEMORIES OF A FORGOTTEN WAR
(USA,Philippines/Documentary/Digital/2001/60 minutes)

In the decade following the Spanish-American War, more Filipinos were killed by US troops than by the Spanish during the 300 years of colonial rule. More than 1
million Filipinos died between 1899 and 1913. Yet few remember any details of the war or why it was fought, though the war’s history holds the key to twentieth
century US foreign policy in Southeast Asia. This experimental documentary about the Philippine-American war of 1899 combines archival photographs and turn-of-the-century film, digital video and 16mm film footage to create memories of a forgotten history. A contemporary Filipina-American narrator weaves this complex history through historiography, experimental documentary and intercultural cinema. Shot on location in the Philippines and edited in the US, MEMORIES OF A FORGOTTEN WAR was produced by an international team of Filipino and American film and media artists.

CO-DIRECTORS, PRODUCERS: Sari Lluch Dalena and Camilla Benolirao Griggers
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Roberto Yniguea, Robert Quebral, Regiben Romana
EDITING: Andres Tapia Urzua
SCRIPT: Camilla Griggers, Lilia Quindoza Santiago, Gabriela Krista Ll. Dalena
SOUND: Ed Um Bucholtz
ART DIRECTOR: Rocio Martinez
MOTION GRAPHICS: Christina Hung DIGITAL IMAGING: Rocio Martinez, Gabriela Krista Ll. Dalena
MUSICAL SCORE: Grace Nono and Bob Aves
PRODUCTION DESIGNERS: Katya Guerrero, Gerry Lugod, Gabriela Krista Ll. Dalena, Aba Ll. Dalena, John Olivares
CO-PRODUCERS: National Commission for Culture and the Arts, Pennsylvania Council of the Arts, Paul Robeson Foundation, New York State Council of the Arts


Sari Raissa Lluch Dalena-Sicat is a Filipina independent filmmaker living and working in Manila. She is currently pursuing her Master’s degree in Film at New York University under a Fulbright-Hayes scholarship. Her films have been screened
internationally in Asia and the U.S. Her films include Church Dog (1994), Little Crosses (1995), Jamming on an Old Saya (1995) The White Funeral (1997), Attack
Champion (2000), Bullet Days (2001) Divine Wind (Kamikaze) (2001) and Memories of a Forgotten War (2001) co-directed with Camilla Griggers. Sari Dalena was honored as one of the Cultural Center of the Philippine’s 13 Artists Awardess in 2000 and received Grand Jury Prize for Best Experimental Film at the Eksperimento 2001 International Film Festival. Her feature length narrative film Rigodon (co-directed
with husband Keith Sicat) was recently awarded the best foreign film feature at the 8th Panorama of Independent Cinema in Athens, Greece.

Camilla Benolirao Griggers, PhD, is a Certified Rubenfeld Synergist®, a Prepare for Surgery™ Counselor, and Certified Massage Therapist with a private practice in Santa Monica , California . She teaches at the Institute for Psycho-Structural Balancing and California State University at Channel Islands. In her bodymind integration practice, she combines guided visualization, touch, movement, language and energy-work to teach clients to reach their highest state of intelligence and adaptability.
She is the author of Becoming-Woman and numerous articles on culture, gender and health. Dr. Griggers is the director of Alienations of the Mother Tongue (1995) and The Micropolitics of Biopsychiatry (1996), and is the co-director of Memories of a Forgotten War. Her films, characterized by wrenching emotionality and astute cultural analysis, integrate healing, education, and visual media. Her films have screened at international film festivals, the Smithsonian, and the Museum of Modern Art , and have been reviewed by Variety , The New York Times and Asia Times. She is
currently authoring a collection of interviews with a variety of renowned bodymind practitioners about how education can evolve by embracing the new bodymind paradigm entitled The Evolution of Education.

(Camilla’s profile was lifted from www.onebodymind.net)