Cinekatipunan this week

THIS WEEK AT CINEKATIPUNAN
19-24 February 2007 (Monday to Saturday)

Cinekatipunan opens this week with selections from
Filipino-American directors with FLIP SHORTS. Tudla
Productions presents a take on Philippine social
realism in their depiction of the current-day
Philippine National Railways and its surrounding
communities. Chabet's Choice for Wednesday is a
documentary on the life of mail-art and performance
artist Ray Johnson. Sinekalye presents new
documentaries on sites of contradictions: Sagada's
rituals, the Guimaras oil spill, and the perya
(carnival). Friday's pick is a horror film by Khavn,
Three Days of Darkness, while Saturday showcases short
student works from UP and UST-based film
organizations.


19 February (Monday)
FLIP SHORTS (Films by Fil-American Directors)
Michael Sandoval, and Keith Sicat


20 February (Tuesday)
Tudla Productions: DAANG BAKAL
To be presented by Jewel Maranan

Daang Bakal (24:10 mins.)
A video-documentary on the devastation brought about
by the Philippine National Railways Modernization and
Rehabilitation Program to the lives and livelihood of
thousands of urban poor residents living alongside the
railroad tracks. The persistence of the situation that
has forced people to reside along the PNR's tracks and
face demolition attempts points to how the national
government's road to progress remains a "danger zone"
for the marginalized.


21 February (Wednesday)
CHABET'S CHOICE
John Walter and Andrew Moore: HOW TO DRAW A BUNNY

HOW TO DRAW A BUNNY (90 mins.)
A documentary on the life of Ray Johnson, pioneer
mail-art and performance artist, who committed suicide
in early 1995. Famous for his trademark "bunny"
signature, Johnson made his name primarily as a
producer of abstract paintings and collages built on
iconic images from the pop culture world around him.

The film provides a generous sampling of Johnson's
work, along with interviews with counterculture
friends and supporters who often seem more bizarre and
"out there" than Johnson himself reportedly was. The
film faces self-imposed limits on just how revelatory
it can end up being.


22 February (Thursday)
SINEKALYE 3 - NEW DOCS
Joy Domingo: PERYA
Ruel Bimuyag and Tommy Hafalla: SEDEY
Ligaya Domingo: Perya

Sedey (documentary/ 30min./ video/ 2007)
Sedey is a private ritual made by the ammam-a (council
of elders) of Sagada where they visit, repair and
clean the old camps used by their ancestors to secure
the boundaries of Sagada and protect its umili
(people). The performance of the Sedey has no exact
schedule, it is only done when a community suffering
is attributed to ancestral spirits to be fed and
visited

HUNA-HUNA (by Wilfred Galila/ documentary/ 7min./
video/ 2006)
Meaning consciousness in Hiligaynon, Huna-huna is an
advocacy for Mother Earth battling with the
nightmarish effects of the oil spill disaster in
Guimaras. It attempts to extend more conscious efforts
to do something about the tragedy. Part of the omnibus
film project Guimaras: Films from the Oil Spill.

PERYA (Sneak Preview)
by Ligaya Domingo/ documentary/ 30min./ video/ 2007

Perya, or as in the easiest way we can associate with
any word, the 'carnival' but not quite. Yes, perya
with its binggo bazaar, tangaan, ferry's wheel and
cotton candies not to mention the mugs and
a-plate-a-peso shot at the tanggaan. Where did the
magic go? Probably gone with the Fiesta Carnival as
soon as Enchanted kingdom came. Then again where is
the live chicken-eating man or the fire-eating man or
the serena? Perya is a documentary about a group of
peryante (people working in perya). Where they move
from one town to another to another as they scrounge
their ways through the very travels of beginnings and
endings of every new site of every new fiesta that
presides their presence Every new site is just another
splendor. Every new site just another backyard for
just another night.


23 February (Friday)
Khavn: THREE DAYS OF DARKNESS (Tatlong Araw Ng
Kadiliman)

Liza, Shereen, & Mika are trapped inside their house
when the apocalyptic prophecy happens. Khavn draws on
the Book of Revelation for one of the most frightening
phenomenon prophesied to happen. Three girls are
trapped in their home as the Three Days of Darkness
descend on the Earth and they must cope and try to
fend off the demons that have come to take them. A
chilling vision of God's Wrath or of people imposing
God's Wrath on one another, the film frightens with
its questions as much as it does with its visuals.


24 February (Saturday)
UP SILIP, UP CAST and UST Moving Concepts

Short films by student film-makers from the University
of the Philippines and University of Santo Tomas.


Held Mondays to Saturdays at Mag:net Café Katipunan,
Cinekatipunan screenings start at 5:30 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 sinag_haraya@yahoo.com.
Cinekatipunan programs precede Mag:net Café's nightly
holding of Live Performances 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
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