Film Toque, Pelikusina and Cinepares

Roxlee and Tado will do a film lecture in a cooking show set up. FILM TOQUE is the closing forum for Pelikusina: A menu of photography, film and video. With eight cameras hanging, from the 8mm to the minidv's, maverick filmmaker, Roxlee, and indie favorite, Tado, will explain the history and evolution of the camera.

Aside from Film Toque, it will also be the culmination of Cinepares: A comparative film festival which screens 20th and 21st century films, highlighting its parallels and differences and reminding us of the "continuity of cinematic past and present". Closing films would be 35mm Man (2007) by the Icon of Philippine Underground Cinema: Roxlee.

35 mm Man is about a man wrapped in 33 mm film negatives promoting very commercial cinemas vs. digital cinemas and advocating independent digital movies. It is also the last film starring Elmo Reodico, one of the most prominent actors in the indie scene.

Film Toque, Biglang Yaman and 35mm Man will be shown on Friday, Feb. 23 at the Kamera Obskura gallery, NCCA, Intramuros, Manila. Screening starts at 1:30PM. Free admission. For more details, contact Kristine at 0927-9799193

PELIKUSINA

Cooking Up
Palatable Dishes
This February

PELIKUSINA (Cinema Paraiso 4): A confluence of film, photography and video will be held from February 1-25 in celebration of the National Arts Month 2007 at Robinson's Galleria INDIE SINE and the NCCA Auditorium in Manila. The Independent Filmmakers Multi-purpose Cooperative (IFC), commissioned by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA), has come up with tasty treats that would surely satisfy the taste buds of all audiences: from the indies to the mainstream audience- young and old alike!

Foto Binalot
>The gallery of NCCA will be turned into a camera obscura by renowned filmmaker Raymond Red. The exhibit starts on February 1.


Sining Bidyo-ke
>A six-piece video art exhibit by leading media artists Gerardo Tan, Gary Pastrano, Poklong Anading, Cocoy Lumbao, Karina Escay/ Moshe Landanga, and Rembrandt Vocalan. Video monitors and projections will be used to create optical trompe l'oeil videos.


CINEPARES (see attached schedule)
>A comparative film festival showcasing 20th and 21st century films, highlighting parallels and differences in approaches to cinema. One of the pairs to be featured would be Eddie Romero’s Ang Ating Pag-ibig, which he directed in 1953, alongside his latest feature, Faces of Love, his first film in digital format, which he made in 2006.


Videolog
>Lectures by celebrated filmmakers and personalities, including a lecture-cum-screening of Tad Ermitaño’s travels in Japan.


Film Toque
>A film lecture in a cooking show set-up featuring Roxlee and Tado.


For more details, call/ text 09274799193, 09173705454. E-mail ifc_nam2007@yahoo.com.ph or ifc_nam2007@yahoogroups.com.

Sarong Banggi

NCCA's Arts Month program PELIKUSINA presents

"Sarong Banggi"

Feb 17, 9:30pm
Robinson's Galeria Cinema 1


Starring URIAN Best Actress Jaclyn Jose and newcomer Angelo Ilagan, "Sarong Banggi" is set in one usual city night where two gentle souls meet--a birthday boy and an jaded, friendly prostitute.

Ticket Prices: P100 (regular) P80 (student)