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Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Showing This Week @ Cinekatipunan (January 29-February 3)

SHOWING THIS WEEK @ CINEKATIPUNAN
Mag:net Café
Monday to Saturday, 29 January – 3 February 2007

Cinekatipunan closes the month of January with
screenings of critically acclaimed documentaries Mula
Sa 3rd Avenue Hanggang Dulo and Memories of A
Forgotten War and welcomes February with Cinemalaya
winner BIG TIME. The week ends with a rare 16 mm
screening of the 1980s classic DAMORTIS by independent
filmmaker and visual artist Briccio Santos and a
Saturday film soiree of student filmmakers from UP
Cinema As Art Movement, University of Makati Film
Society and De La Salle University Dasmarinas 24 FPS.

Monday, 29 January
Sine Patriyotiko: MULA SA 3RD AVENUE HANGGANG SA DULO

A documentary on the lives of three members of a youth
gang, their angst and conflicts, their wars and
struggles, their damnation and eventual freedom. 1st
Place. Documentary Video Category, Gawad CCP Para Sa
Alternatibong Pelikula 2006

SIPAT is a non-profit media group that organizes the
production, distribution and exhibition of independent
audio-visual presentations. “Sipat,” a Filipino term,
means to look while aiming a target. SIPAT stands for
Sine Patriyotiko (Patriotic Cinema). www.sipat.tk
Pagpapakilala sa “Mula sa 3rd Avenue Hanggang Sa
Dulo”?ni Dr. Roland B. Tolentino, University of the
Philippines, Film Institute?(Binasa sa pagbubukas ng
pa-sine ng SIPAT sa University of the Philippines-
Diliman, 28 Setyembre 2004)
Simulan natin ang pagpapakilala sa surreal na kwento:
Mayroong, at least, tatlong gangs sa 3rd Avenue sa
Kalookan – ang Black Ace Brothers, SLB at hamog Boys.
Marami sa nakatira rito ay tadtad sa pang-araw-araw na
skandalo, bugbugan, riot at patayan. Ito ang nakikita.
Ang hindi nakikita o ayaw makita ay ang araw-araw ring
kagutuman, paghihikahos, kawalan ng edukasyon, trabaho
at hustisya. Matapos igapang at maka-graduate ng
highschool sa Manuel Luis Quezon, ang mailap na
pangarap ni Jonjo ay makapag-aral sa PUP. Si Michael
naman ay nagpapatakbo ng video arcade, kumikita mula
sa piso-pisong inihuhulog ng mga bata, at nakatutulong
sa gastos sa bahay nila. Si Buchoy ay panganay na ang
trabaho ay magpanggabing pahinante sa trucking company
ng San Miguel Corporation at magbenta ng dugo sa
halagang P250. Isang Hamog Boys, nakuha ang pangalan
ng gang dahil sa gabi sila kung lumabas at inaabot sa
madaling-araw ang kanilang pagsasama, ay nagbebenta ng
200-300 siopao sa pista sa Bulacan para kumita. Sa
gitna ng nakaraang eleksyon, natatanto na ng mga bata
na walang gloria kay Gloria (GMA).
Ang mga kabataang ito ay hindi lamang bahagi ng
reserve army ng surplus labor ng bansa, sila rin ang
nakahany sa uring mula proletaryado (industrial na
manggagawa) hanggang sa semiproletaryado (walang
trabaho) at ang kinatatakutang lumpen proletaryado
(“latak ng lipunan”) o sa mas popular na katawawgan ,
ang jologs. Tinagurian sila bilang walang breeding,
walang pinag-aralan, walang kakayanan, walang modo,
kaya maging ang kanilang lunan, ang komunidad ng
squatter, ay binabakuran, na kailangan pang umakyat sa
hagdanan sa pader, tulad sa Pook Palaris, Ricarte at
Area 1 sa UP Diliman – para lamang makalabas-pasok sa
lugar. Kaya kahit pagbabambuhin sila noong EDSA 3 sa
Malacañang, maputukan at magputukan ang mga ulo,
walang umalma sa ngalan ng kanilang hanay. Wala silang
karapatan dahil sa mata ng lipunan, hindi sila dapat
nabubuhay.
Kaya madali rin silang magamit at magpagamit sa mga
politiko na walang balak gawin sa kanila kundi
paramihin ang kanilang numerikong hanay para mas
dumami pa ang naghihikahos at kung sa gayon, mabilis
na mabili ang boto. Dahil kung tunay na iaangat ang
kanilang buhay – bibigyan ng akses sa edukasyon,
trabaho, katarungan, pagkain, patubig, pabahay at
kalusugan – ay magiging lubos ang pagkamulat at kapag
magpagayon, makikita na ang mga trapo (tradisyunal na
politiko) ang siyang dapat hindi mabuhay. Pero hindi
gayon ang laro ng kapangyarihan sa lipunan. Tulad ng
pagguho ng bundok sa Payatas, silang nabubuhay sa
basura ay namamatay rin sa basura.
Ipinapakita rin sa dokumentaryo ang saysay ng
politikal sa pagtataguyod ng isang kritikal na
publikong spero (sphere) sa pamamagitan ng
pagpapakilos sa hanay ng lumpen proletaryadong
kabataan at sa komunidad nito hindi para magamit
muli’t muli ng politiko kundi magkaroon ng kontraryong
pang-estadong paninindigan. Hindi nga ba’t ang estado
naman ang pangunahing nagpapalaganap sa karahasang
nagtataguyod ng interes ng iilang higanteng negosyante
at panginoong maylupa? Ang pagpasok ng Anak ng Bayan,
partidong politikal ng sektor ng kabataan ang
nagpapadaloy ng politikal na diskurso sa hayagang
pamomolitika lamang ng mga trapo at ang retorika ng
estado.
At ito ang lamang ng naturang komunidad sa atin dito
sa UP. Kahit pa hayagan ang organisasyon ng mga
aktibista sa pagpapamulat, pagpapakilos at
pag-oorganisa ng hanay ng skolar ng bayan, hindi
pang-ekonomiko ang batayan ng pagkilos. Hindi naman
mas batayang usapin ng kagutuman at kawalan ng
edukasyon ang motibasyon sa elitismo sa UP. Sa bulto
ng hanay ng kabataang walang tiyak na kinabukasan,
tulad sa sityo ng 3rd Avenue, at tumpak ang titulo ng
dokumentaryo, hanggang sa dulo, mas maigting sa
pang-araw-araw na buhay na karanasan sa paghihikahos.
Kahit pa sabihin na “lumpen proletarians are given to
senseless destruction” (Philippine Society and
Revolution, 151). Tayo rito sa poder ni Oblation, ang
ating periodikong anxiety attack ay patungkol sa
lovelife o kawalan nito, pagsipsip sa born-agaain o
tibak o terror na prof, at pagtimba sa 1.0 o ng 5.0.
Anong ligaya ng may katiyakan na ang kinabukasan ay
may gloria!
Kung gayon, ang politikal ang magtitiyak ng
transformasyon ng diskursong panlipunan – ang
makakapaningil sa estadong may mabigat na pagkakautang
sa mamamayan at ang mga politiko at negosyante patuloy
na namamayagpag sa yaman at kapangyarihan dahil sa
higit pang pandarambong sa naghihikahos ng mamamayan
nito. Tulad ng pagkalapit ng 3rd Avenue sa Monumento
ni Bonifacio sa dulo ng EDSA, sa bukana ng syudad ng
Kalookan, ang pag-ikot ng mundo, ang traffic na likha,
ang mga infrastraktura ng kapital tulad ng LRT at Ever
Gotesco Mall, tila walang problema dahil patuloy na
umiinog ang kapital at mundo!
Sa napipintong pangtanggal ng monumento ni Bonifacio
sa kasalukuyan nitong lokasyon, sa planong i-extend
ang MRT hanggang sa Kalookan, ano pa ang ibig sabihin
ng Monumento kung wala na ang monumento? Temporal na
binabago ng diskurso ng politikal ang landscape na
normal ang mundo. Sa pamamagitan ng mga nagmamartsa sa
lansangan o pagkilos sa Pambansang Tigil Pamasada,
pagwewelga sa Ever, naimamarka ang puwang ng
pagbabalikwas laban sa mapanupil na normalisasyon ng
kaayusan. Sa huli, hindi lamang masisipat ang mataas
na signage ng Jollibee sa poder ng Ever, mas mataas pa
sa monumento ni Bonifacio, matutunghayan ang mga
pulang bandila, at higit pa rito , ang hanay ng
kabataan – lumpen proletaryado man o dahil nga lumpen
proletaryado – na nakikibaka. Ang diskurso ng
politikal, gaya ng pagkasipat sa dokumentaryo, ang
siyang magpapatunggali sa puwersa ng mga uri sa
lipunan at sa loob mismo ng mga pinaghalong- uring
sektor. Hahayaan bang maging reserbadong army lamang
sila, na sa paghihikahos ay kay daling kumapit sa
droga, pagtatato, at pagpatay at pagpapatiwakal –
tulad ng isang amang bitbit ang kanyang isang taong
sanggol sa bagong tayong pedestrian walk sa
Commonwealth – o gagawing politikal, na siya namang
batayan ng mga uri, ang kanilang hanay?
Ang dokumentaryo ay isang materyal para sa edukasyon
sa mga usaping ito. Dahil mismong dokumentaryo ay
pumanig na sa papel ng dokumentartong pelikula –
partisan ito, at nakapanig sa interes ng nakikibakang
kabataang mamamayan. Pagbati sa SIPAT at sa lahat ng
nakikibakang kabataan mula sa 3rd Avenue hanggang sa
dulo, lampas-lampasan pa sa abot ng mapapakilos!

Tuesday, 30 January
MALAYSIAN PROGRAM
To Be Presented By Sharaad Kuttan

Offering a rich sampling of the growing independent
filmmaking movement within Malaysia, the films were
selected and will be presented by visiting Malaysian
film critic Sharaad Kuttan.

Sharaad Kuttan is an Asian Public Intellectuals Fellow
(Malaysia). He is currently in the country doing
research on the Intellectual Life of Filipinos through
the Prism of the University and the Social Sciences.
He's otherwise a freelance writer and critic on visual
culture and film in Malaysia. He is co-editor of a
book on cultural politics in Singapore, "Looking at
Culture". He has recently started exhibiting in art
galleries, and has now made his first documentary AUTO
FOCUS INDIA.

Wednesday, 31 January
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 Yniguez,
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


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 .

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 Awardees in 2000 and received
the Grand Jury Prize for Best Experimental Film at the
Eksperimento 2001 International Film Festival.

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

Thursday, 1 February
Mario Cornejo and Monster Jimenez: BIG TIME

Synopsis: Danny (Winston Elizalde) and Jonas (Nor
Domingo) are two petty crooks who dream of moving into
the big scene. When their carefully-planned kidnapping
goes askew, Danny and Jonas find themselves in a
tangle neither of them can handle. Big Time is the
non-linear story of two small-time criminals, a
wannabe actress, the son of a crime lord, and the
kidnapping that brings all of them together for what
should be the ticket to their dreams. In this crazy
world, everybody wants to go big time.
DIRECTOR: Mario Cornejo; PRODUCER: Monster Jimenez;
MAJOR CAST: Michael de Mesa, Nor Domingo, Winston
Elizalde, Jamie Wilson, Joanne Miller; SUPPORTING
CAST: Frederick Edwards, Joel Ruiz, Tony Roma, Gerry
Cornejo, Amante Pulido, Jon Santos, Carme Sanchez;
SCREENWRITERS: Mario Cornejo, Monster Jimenez;
CINEMATOGRAPHER: Ike Avellana; MUSICAL SCORER: Allan
Feliciano; SOUND DESIGN: Raffy Magsaysay; FILM
EDITORS: Mario Cornejo, Monster Jimenez; PRODUCTION
DESIGNER: Christina Dy; LINE PRODUCERS: Joel Ruiz,
Margie Templo

Mario Cornejo grew up in Tambo, where Big Time takes
place. He does not work in an office and has no plans
to do so in the future. Mario is a voracious reader
who sometimes resorts to reading math books and
shampoo labels when there are no books left to read.
Sometimes, he writes. Sometimes, he directs. But only
two things give him joy: making movies and his cat,
Cuba.

Coreen "Monster" Jimenez lives in Alabang and works in
an office called Arkeomedia. She has not informed U.P.
that she is not enrolling this term, only her second
in the Master's Program for Creative Writing. She was
hired and fired by Mike de Leon several times. She
doesn't eat fruit.

Friday, 2 February
Briccio Santos: DAMORTIS (16mm/1983)
16 mm Projection with interactive

Starring Robert Villanueva, Lito Carating and
Madelaine Nicolas, DAMORTIS delves on the subject of
power and its abuse during the 1980s and uses the
faith healer and the supernatural as the backdrop.
Damortis is considered by film critics to be one of
the best Filipino films made in the 1980s.It has been
screened at the Mannheim, Amiens, New York Asian
American and Taiwan International Film Festivals.

Briccio Santos, filmmaker, painter and photographer,
was born in Manila, Philippines in 1949. His first
feature film was Manikang Papel (1970). In 1983, he
made Damortis, a meditation on pain, trauma and
healing which he had typically shot on 16mm, with the
lead roles played by two painters, Roberto Villanueva
and Lito Carating. One of his major film projects is
Cavaliers of Wind (1994), which has been exhibited at
the University of the Philippines Film Center. His
most recent digital feature films include Cinemanila
award winners Anino ng Setyembre and Ala Verde, Ala
Pobre.

Briccio’s profile from www.romacinemafest. org

Saturday, 3 February
UP CAM, DLSU-D Filmmakers & UMAK Film Society
(Selections by Cesar Hernando, Elvin Valerio & Seymour
Sanchez)

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
visit www.magnet.com.ph.
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Compound Indie Film @ Robinsons Galleria on February 7-13

"Compound" indie film opens on Feb.7 to 13,2007@Robinsons Galleria Ortigas

Independent Film Cooperative (IFC) and

Robinsons Movieworld present INDIE SINE 2007

MTRCB R-18 [Strictly For Adults Only]

Featuring the Most Disturbing Psychological Thriller to Hit the Indie
Circuit

COMPOUND
a Will Fredo film
February 7 to 13,2007
Robinsons Galleria Ortigas

Starring John Arcilla , Janet Russ, Jake Macapagal, and Liza Diño
Joan Palisoc , Perry Escaño, Lily Chu , Marq Dollentes

Music by Bob Aves
Cinematography by Gene Gallardo, PJ Sta. Maria, Will Fredo
Produced by Greg Macaraeg, Medwin Garcia, Joan T. Manalang, George
Sommerrock

YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!
MTRCB R-18 [Strictly For Adults Only]
What are the critics saying about COMPOUND?

Edward Jordon, V.P. of Acquisitions, Film-Source Co.:
COMPOUND is a complex thriller that brilliantly reinvents itself as
the story unfolds. Just when you think you know where the movie is
going, the writer/director pulls the rug out from under you. This is
definitely a most auspicious debut from Will Fredo. His images will
remain with you for a long time.

Cleveland International Film Festival:
A stunning visual achievement, COMPOUND is a contemporary thriller
that deals with the complexities of love, wealth, and fear. A
perfectly unexpected and well-executed ending make this a film not to
be missed.

Tito Genova Valiente, Business Mirror:
"Compound" is not a film easy to love, and yet it is not a film easy
to hate. One thing is sure: it is not a film that can be dismissed
easily.
...The film allows us a peek into a middle-class paranoia...
There is, perhaps, no other Filipino film that approaches what
Christian Metz, the film semiotician, called the "aggregate, plural
property" of cinema as a medium than this film entitled "Compound.

Paul Daza, Philippine Daily Inquirer:

" MELROSE PLACE " As seen through the unflinching eyes of David Lynch
and Mike de Leon.
The movie's technical aspects, especially the lighting, camerawork,
sound and editing, are first-rate.
Also worthy of mention is the theme song of Bob Aves and Grace Nono,
which underscores the characters' mournful inability to find love and
happiness.

Joe Bilancio, Program Director, Reel Affirmations International Film
Festival:

COMPOUND is an independent gem. Well acted, well directed, and
inventive storytelling. Somehow Fredo and the cast are able to make
the film both plot driven AND character driven, a difficult feat for
any cast and crew.

David Corpuz, Mental Pornography:
While our minds are secured that we already knew the ending, we were
goddamn wrong. We're screwed. The director played with our mind and
he won.

The compound is the microcosm of the world we are living in. In the
compound, it's like every society's issue is present: drug addiction,
terrorism, homosexuality, greed for power and wealth, ignorance .. you
name it, it's in here.
Arcilla and Macapagal are noteworthy in their performances as
Virgilio and Jay, respectively. They deserve acting nominations, or
probably the trophy itself!
Rito Asilo, Philippine Daily Inquirer:

Arcilla and Macapagal are passionate actors with contrasting acting
styles, which work for their respective characters, but Diño and Chu
come up with the most informed performances in the ensemble --
particularly the former, who should get more roles in mainstream features.
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Free Film Showing @ Alliance Française de Manille

Violence des échanges en milieu tempéré

Alliance Française de Manille

209, Nicanor Garcia St. (formerly Reposo St.),
Bel-Air II, Makati City.

Tel: 895 7585 / 895 7441
Fax: 899 3654
Alliance Française de Manille's Cine Club

Violence des échanges en milieu tempéré
(Work Hard, Play Hard)
a film by Jean-Marc Moutout
(French version, with English subtitles)
2004, 99 minutes
Le Coude Rouge Restaurant is open before and after the film screening
Alliance Ondeo Auditorium
Wednesday, January 31, 2007, 8:30 PM
(Free Admission)

Genre: Drama (and more)

Cast:
Jérémie Renier .... Philippe Seigner
Laurent Lucas .... Hugo Paradis
Cylia Malki .... Eva
Olivier Perrier .... Roland Manin
Samir Guesmi .... Adji Zerouane, (and more)

Synopsis:

Philippe (25 years of age) arrives from the provinces in Paris to take up a job in a large consulting firm. On the morning of his first day at work he meets Eva, a young solo mother. They quickly become involved. He is enthusiastic about his first mission which is to audit a small factory with view to a takeover by a large corporation - unbeknownst to the factory employees. Philippe's boss is impressed by his reports and hands him the responsibility of a new task: to select the staff who will be capable of adjusting to the factory's new organization. Henceforth, Philippe must convince himself and Eva of the validity of his work and confront the men and women who will lose their jobs in the takeover.
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Watawat: Recent Works @ Pinto Art Gallery

WATAWAT: RECENT WORKS

Pinto Art Gallery
invites you to
WATAWAT: RECENT WORKS
BY JEFF DIZON

Curated by Benjie Cabangis, this exhibit marks the artist's 30th year in the art scene.

Featured are acrylic paintings on paper and on canvas, with musical performances by the UP Himig Kultura string quartet.

Pinto Art Gallery is located at 1 Sierra Madre St., Grandheights Subd., Antipolo City.

For inquiries on Watawat: Recent Works by Jeff Dizon, please call 6971015 or 09176050812.
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Ferdie Montemayor's Bagong Araw Exhibit @ Boston Gallery

"Bagong Araw"
by Ferdie Montemayor
Boston Gallery
February 10, 2007 to February 28, 2007

Montemayor at the Boston Gallery

Noted visual artist Ferdie Montemayor showcases his recent works on canvas in an exhibit entitled Bagong Araw at the Boston Gallery from February 10 to 28, 2007. The show is the artist's 21st one-man solo exhibition.

Ferdie Montemayor's new works in acrylic takes him to depictions of the suburbs and its inhabitants drenched in the warm tones of local sunlight.
The recent paintings, which consists of large and small scale works, are pictures of the city in the haze and warmth of the day. Purple hues modulate the dominant tones of ochre as the artist defines the shape of buildings, people and other urban structures that weave through liquid, white veils of atmosphere.

Ferdie Montemayor's paintings are pictures of the fullness and vigor of life under the sun a hopeful testament to the vicissitudes of contemporary life. Bagong Araw opens Feb. 10, 6pm Saturday, runs until Feb. 28. 2007.

Boston Gallery is an affiliate of the Silangan Foundation for the Arts, Culture and Ecology and is located at 72 Boston St. cor Lantana Sts, Cubao, Quezon City.

For inquiries on Ferdie Montemayor's Bagong Araw exhibit at the Boston Gallery, please call telefax 7229205 or email us at info@thebostongallery.com or log on to www.thebostongallery.com.
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OneWorkshop 3rd Anniversary Schedule of Activities

OneWorkshop, Inc (OWG) is celebrating its 3rd anniversary!

Schedule of Activities on February 8, Thursday:

10am to 10pm - BIG discounts on Archival Printing (delivery of prints to be scheduled); free coffee/soda/ beer/iced tea to all who will bring their files for printing (for every Php500 minimum )

10am to 2pm - FREE Photo Studio use (One hour each per photographer/ s) - (With free
studio lighting tips from in-house photographer, first-come-first serve basis)

10am to 12nn - FREE Film Showing (Art and Photography)

1pm to 4pm - FREE Basic Photoshop Workshop (limited to 10 participants only, kindly
email your personal info at [email]one_workshop@ yahoo.com[/email], stating your name / cell number / landline / company / profession / club or group / and where did you read this post ...10 lucky participants will be raffled off from the lists, 5 will be on standby)

6pm - "Sex, Death and the Viewfinder" a talk and presentation by Ireland based Filipino Photographer CONRADO VELASCO.Velasco will deconstruct works by leading photographers, to reveal a simple but potent method of "building pictures" in the viewfinder. The talk is geared to all levels of photographers from professionals to students.

Conrado Velasco's multi-discipline approach blurs the boundaries between art and design. He works in the fields of architecture, sculpture, graphic design, product design and photography.His photographic client list includes Gap, Banana Republic, Pottery Barn, Tamotsu Yagi Design, Old Navy, GapKids and Gymboree. Philippine clients include furniture designers Kenneth Cobonpue and Budjie Layug. His work has appeared in magazines including Surface, Wallpaper, Metropolis and Elle Décor.
Conrado Velasco's talk is free however donations will be greatfully accepted. All proceeds will benefit the non-profit artspace, Green Papaya Art Gallery.

8pm to 11pm - "Thursdays@OWG" - Glamour and Portrait Photo Shoot with models -
entrance fee of Php 200 with coffee/soda/ beer/iced tea consumables

On Exhibit: Catch a glimpse of Sofia Gomez Genato's Indochine Introspective at OWGallery Two.

View the diverse collections of fine art pieces and OWG Artists Represented at OWGallery One; celebrating February National Arts Month.

Sponsored by Avenue Photo, Informatix, Mediatrix Talent Casting Studio, Conrado Velasco, Clothes by Pia Gladys Perey, and Hair & Make up by Sundae Leyva.
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Friday, January 26, 2007

Collage for Beginners @ UP Vargas Museum

Collage for Beginners
UP Jorge B. Vargas Museum,
University of the Philippines,
College of Arts and Letters, Roxas Ave.,
Diliman, Quezon City.
(January 22, 2007 to February 4, 2007)

Kids are invited to experience bullfighting in a different way through National Artist Arturo Luz's Torero exhibit of large-scale collages made out of matador's suits.

As part of the museum's educational program, children will learn what bullfighting is all about (a lost sport in the Philippines after the end of the Spanish colonial rule). They will also be encouraged to share their stories by creating their own collages.

As a continuation of Arturo Luz's 80th birthday celebrations, the UP Vargas Museum exhibits Torero, featuring commissioned collages from the El Cirkulo collection. The collages comprise of geometrical patches of red or black, pieces from old and new bullfighters' costumes, and bull's hide.

Painter, sculptor and designer Luz received the title National Artist for Visual Arts in 1997. He is best known for his linear art and his series on street musicians, vendors, cyclists and carnival performers. He also sculpted using wood, concrete and metal.

In 1995, Luz worked with designers Tina Bonoan and Ramon Castellanos who designed the famous Spanish bar and restaurant El Cirkulo along Pasay Road in Makati with Arch. Raul Locsin. Owner Malu Gamboa met with Bonoan and Castellanos in Madrid to find toreros' attire and large pieces of hide to create an authentic feel of the Spanish sport of bullfighting to the collages. Once in the hands of Luz, he took apart portions of the outfits and arranged them on painted panels resulting in artworks that called attention to the highly ornamental ensemble of bullfighters as well as uniqueness of Luz's ingenious creativity.

The eight featured collages are among the ten Luz has made for the Spanish bar and restaurant. Although displayed in the restaurant, they have never been launched publicly. UP Vargas Museum is proud to host this exhibition with partners El Cirkulo and the Avellana Gallery.

Collage for Beginners will be on view from January 22, 2007 to February 4, 2007 at the UP Jorge B. Vargas Museum located at the University of the Philippines, College of Arts and Letters, Roxas Ave., Diliman, Quezon City. For more details, please call 928-1927 or email vargasmuseum@gmail.com.
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Argie Bandoy's Seasoning the Obese @ Mag:net Gallery

"Seasoning the Obese"
by Argie Bandoy
Mag:net Gallery (Paseo Center)
January 10, 2007 to January 30, 2007

Argie Bandoy opens the new year on an acerbic yet good-humored note in "Seasoning the Obese", his fifth one-man exhibition.

Seasoning the Obese features Bandoy's recent oil-on-canvas paintings, collages, and works on paper. The show (the title of which is culled from the song title of a band called Storm Troopers of Death, which the artist used to listen to in his younger days) features works that are deliberately badly painted, crude and unfinished, where abstract and minimalist forms have accumulated into multi layered accidents and uncertainty, and where textual elements are accidentally misspelled.

Calling the show a celebration of failures as well as good laughter, Bandoy utilizes spontaneously-conceived images, multi-layered accidents, and abstraction to poke symbolic fun at the peripheral and central players in the art world, at the "greedy, the rich, the intellectuals, the morons, the theorists, the talkers, the posers, the dreamers, the non-believers, the critics, the history of art, the market, the collectors, the academe, etcetera."

Argie Bandoy studied Fine Arts at the University of the East. He has been active in various group group exhibitions affiliated with the Surrounded by Water art space since 1996. Bandoy was also among the resident artists of the Big Sky Mind artist project foundation in 2004. 'Seasoning the Obese' is his 5th solo exhibition and his second to be held at the mag:net galleries.

Argie Bandoy's Seasoning the Obese @ Mag:net Gallery (Paseo Center) is on view from January 10, 2007 until January 30, 2007. For more details, please call 817-7895.
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Jayson Oliveria's Find X @ Mag:net Katipunan

Jayson Oliveria's show Find X will open at Mag:net Katipunan
on January 30, 2007 Tuesday at 6:30 PM.

There will also be a sound performance by Pow Martinez and
Sam Kiyoumarsi on the same night.

Jayson Oliveria's Find X @ Mag:net Katipunan will be on view
until February 15, 2007.
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Sruvaleh Live at Cordillera Coffee

Sruvaleh Live

From the vibrant rhythms of the north
and the ethnic grooves of the south
comes the group
Sruvaleh
( " srrroo - va - lehh " )

Soothe your senses
with the music
of this up and coming
worldbeat and percussion group!

Friday 26 January 2007
7:30 PM

Admission is free.
FREE COFFEE in celebration of Coffee AID!

Invite your family and friends.

Do check these guys out at:

http://www.sruvaleh.tk/
http://www.soundclick.com/sruvaleh
http://www.myspace.com/sruvaleh
http://sruvalehworldmusic.multiply.com/

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Cordillera Coffee
Experience Filipino Culture in a Cup!
Unit 104 Llanar Bldg Xavierville Ave. cor B. Gonzales St. Loyola Heights Quezon City
Office Phone: 632.4360324
Telefax: 632.4330634
www.cordilleracoffee.ph
http://cordilleracoffee.blogspot.com
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Film Studio Brainstorming - The Science and Art

FILM STUDIO BRAINSTORMING…
The Science & Art

Want to know how a commercial film production outfit develops projects?

Master the principles crucial to make a certified box-office hit movie.

Learn how to integrate into your story concept aspects that affect the production of a script. Know anything from market viability to star system to studio jargons and doctrines.

FILM STUDIO BRAINSTORMING… The Science & Art
Seminar Workshop
February 17 & 24

Fee: P 3,000

Facilitators:
JL Caiña [former Member, ABS-CBN/Star Cinema-Creative Development Group (CDG); former TV Analyst for ABS-CBN]
Melchor Escarcha [Creative Consultant, THUNDERPUNCH Animation and Comics Studio; USA former Member, ABS-CBN/Star Cinema-Creative Development Group (CDG)]

For Registration & Inquiries Contact: +639208793237
Email: irish_patatas_entertainment@yahoo.com

REGISTER ON-LINE
For more details click: http://the-chips1.tripod.com
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Pasinaya 2007 @ CCP

Take a sneak preview of Ballet Philippines' next production, "Espana Extension" at 11am and 2pm in the Rehearsal Hall -- see you there!

What will you do if someone tells you that you can watch
more than 20 FREE shows
in the Cultural Center of the Philippines
for only ONE DAY?

Just in case you decided to grab this rare opportunity,
here are the details:

PASINAYA:
CCP Open House Festival 2007

featuring: Tanghalang Pilipino, Philippine Madrigal Singers,
Bayanihan Philippine National Folk Dance Company,
Ramon Obusan Folkloric Group, Philippine Ballet Theater,
Ballet Philippines, National Music Competitions for Young Artists,
UST Conservatory of Music, Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra,
and other guest artists…

Sunday, February 4, 2007
10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Various CCP Venues

Pasinaya 2007
PAY WHAT YOU CAN,
SEE ALL YOU CAN!!!
(Come in bulk!)

Pass this to all your loved ones,
acquaintances, and "friendsters" ! :o)
For more details on Pasinaya 2007, click this
link: http://www.culturalcenter.gov.ph/pasinaya
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Thursday, January 25, 2007

Cinema Australia @ UP Diliman

CINEMA AUSTRALIA: CRITICS’ CHOICE

Award-winning low-budget independent feature films take the spotlight at this year’s Cinema Australia, one of the exciting events in line with this year’s Australia Day celebration.

The festival will run on 25-26 January and 1-2 February with screenings at 5:00 pm and 7:00 pm at the Videotheque, University of the Philippines Film Institute. The film festival showcases Australia’s strong tradition of low-budget filmmaking, a niche where bold and independent Australian filmmakers have been successful and identified with in the international arena.

Film enthusiasts will get the opportunity to view The Finished People (Khoa Do), Proof(Jocelyn Moorhouse), The Castle (Rob Stitch), Romper Stomper (Geoffrey Wright), Mullet(David Caesar), The Boys (Rowan Woods) and Undead (Michael and Peter Spierig) –all produced with remarkably low budgets.

The Finished People is a fine example of low budget filmmaking executed with a realistic fervour. Written and directed by 2005 Young Australian of the Year awardee Khoa Do, the film was shot for around $20,000 on digital video, in a documentary-meets-fiction style,featuring real life street kids of Cabramatta as the films main actors. The director’s extraordinary vision resulted in a uniquely fresh and original film, winning wide spread critical praise and box office success.

Undead by brothers Peter and Michael Spierig is a zombie horror flick in the classic vein of Night of the Living Dead. The film was a two and a half year project self
financed by family and friends,with Michael and Peter creating 95% of the special effects on their home computers. The final result is a film that has the look and production values of a film ten times its budget, winning over the hugely critical community of horror film fans. Undead received the FIPRESCI Award at the 2003 Melbourne International Film Festival.

Other must-see films included in the festival are the impressive directorial debuts of Rowan Woods, Jocelyn Moorhouse, Geoffrey Wright, and Rob Sitch which are certain to inspire budding filmmakers and students. The Boys by Rowan Woods was adapted from Gordon Graham's award-winning 1991 play by Stephen Sewell which depicts Sydney’s suburbs, lounge rooms and backyards in an avant-noir study of working class masculinity out of control. The film won four awards at the 1998 AFI Awards for Best Director, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress and “Best Screenplay Adapted from Another Source”, and was selected for competition at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1998.

Proof by writer-director Jocelyn Moorhouse was a critical success winning seven Australian Film Institute Awards, as well as Outstanding First Feature at the British Film Institute Awards (1992)and a Special Mention at Cannes. Proof is the provocative debut film by Moorhouse about a blind man's obsessive search for truth. He trusts no-one, except for the camera which has replaced his eyes. His photos are proof that the world he senses is the same as other people see.

The Castle was the directorial debut of Rob Sitch, along with his four partners in the Australian television and radio collective known as “Working Dog”. It received wide critical acclaim both in Australia and internationally. Featuring Eric Bana, Stephen Curry and Anne Tenney, the film was self-financed, written in just two weeks, and shot in 11 days on Super 16mm. The film made a big impact in Australia where it became the highest-grossing domestic release of 1997, and at Sundance
1998, where it was picked up by Miramax for a reported $6 million.

Director Geoffrey Wright made a huge impact with his debut feature, the
powerful low-budget film, Romper Stomper, in 1992. Starring Russell Crowe, Daniel Pollock,Jacqueline McKenzie and Tony Lee, Romper Stomper went on to become one of Australia’s most significant cult films winning three Australian Film Institute Awards, and awards at the Seattle International Film Festival, Stockholm Film Festival and the Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards.

Mullet is the award winning independent Australian hit from writer/director David Caesar. The film’s understated screenplay interweaves pointed metaphor to explore the ties that bind and separate family.Sitch’s low budget success story went on to win an Awgie (Australian Writers’ Guild) Award in 2001 for its script, Best original screenplay at the Film Critics Circle of Australia 2002, the Golden Goblet Award for Best Director at the Shanghai International Film Festival 2002, and was screened at the Montréal Film Festival 2001.

With the increasing success of low budget feature filmmaking in Australia, the Australian Film Commission (AFC) established its Low-budget Feature Film Development strand and the IndieVision initiative. The Indievision initiative, which was launched in December 2004 through the Australian Government’s commitment of Au$17.5 million over three years,comprises a suite of programs to support the development, production and promotion of low-budget features in Australia.

Released by Public Affairs Section, Australian Embassy
P.O. Box 1071 MCPO 1250 Makati City, Philippines
Tel: 757-8173 *Fax: 757-8323 * Email: Public-Affairs-MNLA@dfat.gov.au
www.philippines.embassy.gov.au
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Sunday, January 21, 2007

Poetry - Exhibition of Fine Photography @ Artists-run Independent Art Space

"Poetry” an exhibition of fine photography of Francisco BAL, Allan RAZO, Toto TARROSA and Bobby NUESTRO at (ar.i.a.s) Artists-run Independent Art Space, opens January 26, 2007, Friday, 6:00 PM.

The show addresses, on how we read a photograph. Since the basic photographic discourse, insisted that we read a photograph not as image but as a text, which involves a series of problematic ambiguous and often contradictory meanings and relationship between the reader and the image. Somehow the exhibiting Artists presumed that the images are a Poetry that has so many metaphorical insinuations.

Artists-run Independent Art Space is located in 318-A LRI Business Plaza , Nicanor Garcia Street, Makati City.

For inquiries, please call telefax: 8959837 or e-mail us at artist_run@yahoo.com
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Peripheries Videos @ Blacksoup Project Artspace

Now showing at the Blacksoup Project Artspace
-Bangkok train station 4:21
-Kris Aquino screams #1, #2, #3 2:47
-Rain on terrace 4:04
-Quiapo in 2 minutes 2:00
-Airborne plastic 0:51
-MMDA Care Unit, Badjaw rescue 6:32
-Ho Chi Minh City 4:51
-POV shopping cart 4:00
-Seoul billboard 3:20
-A Sensual Workshop 6:47

PERIPHERIES
Photographs and video works by
Neil Daza

December 20,2006 - January 31,2007
Blacksoup Project Artspace + cafe
Shop 61, Marikina Shoe Expo
General Romulo Avenue, Araneta Center
Cubao, Quezon City
Gallery hours 4-9pm, Tue-Sat
Telefax: 439-8838
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Graphics and Publishing Seminar

INVITATION

THE GRAPHICS AND PUBLISHING SEMINAR
April 18-20, 2007
AIM Acceed Conference Center
Benavides cor. Trasierra Sts., Legaspi Village
Makati City, Philippines

Registration Fee: P3,000.00 per day, inclusive of snacks, lunch, kit and taxes.
Early Bird Rate: P2,750.00 per day on or before February 15, 2007 payment.

Who Should Attend: Graphic designers, corporate communicators,
digital artists, photographers, creative directors, art directors,
web masters, illustrators, AV producers, publishers, layout artists,
print managers, production artists, educators, multimedia
specialists, IT professionals, marketing and advertising executives.
(The learning sessions will cater to Beginner to Intermediate Levels).

Topic - LEARNING PHOTOSHOP CS2 and ITS APPLICATIONS
April 18, 2007, Wednesday (whole day)
9:00am-4:30pm

Adobe Photoshop CS2 is the professional standard in digital imaging
and printing with enhanced features and capabilities for graphics,
print and web designers, and photographers. Find out how you can
create and edit professional quality images. Learn the fundamentals
of selections, layers, color and painting using masks and photo
retouching. Learn how to use brush blending modes to target your
paint brush work to remove blemishes and smooth skin tones. There
will be also tips and tricks on how to create photographic special
effects and creating panoramas. Attend and see how productive you can
be with Photoshop CS2.

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Topic - THE BASICS AND BEYOND OF PUBLICATIONS DESIGN
April 19, 2007, Thursday (half-day)
9:00am-12:00nn

Learn how to develop effective design layout in your print and web
publishing communication projects. Layout techniques, basics of
typography, type categories, and principle of design (balance,
proportion, unity) will be included in the discussion. Learn the
fundamentals of what makes a great design layout that elicit strong
impression and recall when doing your desktop publishing projects.

Topic - OPTIMIZING PHOTOSHOP AND ILLUSTRATOR AS IMAGING TOOLS
April 19, 2007, Thursday (half-day)
1:30-4:30pm

Graphics and creative professionals should optimize the use of
combining Photoshop and Illustrator as powerful imaging tools. As an
industry standard software, Illustrator is focused on vector images
while Photoshop on bitmap images. Learn how to optimize and integrate
the use of these two softwares in creating and editing
professional- quality graphics in your desktop publishing projects.

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Topic - MAKING POWERFUL CORPORATE PRESENTATION MATERIALS AND WEB PROJECTS
April 20, 2007, Friday (whole day)
9:00am-4:30pm

Making powerful and effective corporate presentation materials is
MUST skill for corporate communicators, marketing and advertising
professionals. With authoring tools available, the task is made easy
and seamless. Learn how to combine digital graphics, animation,
sounds and video in an interactive presentation for corporate
materials and web. Learn how Adobe and Macromedia programs are
integrated to produce dazzling motion graphics to achieve
interactivity and multimedia effects. Learn the tips, tricks and
techniques in using Adobe Photoshop CS2 (digital imaging), Adobe
Premiere (for audio/video editing), Adobe Image Ready (gif
animation), Macromedia Flash MX (shockwave animation), Power Point,
and Macromedia Dreamweaver (for web design and publishing) to produce
stunning multimedia and web communication projects.

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Registration Fee: P3,000.00 per day, inclusive of snacks, lunch, kit and taxes.

Call: +632-8960637, 8960639, 8996216, fax: +632-8960637, 8902101,
email: fiera@info.com.ph, visit web site: http://www.fmi.com.ph
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UST and IYAS National Writers Workshops

8th UST National Writers Workshop

The Center for Creative Writing and Studies of the University of Santo Tomas is accepting manuscripts for the 8th National Writers Workshop to be held from April 22 to 28 in Baguio City.

The workshop iis open to writers who have not been awarded fellowships to any national writers workshop.

An applicant should submit three printed copies (on short bond paper) and a CD or diskette containing soft copies in MS Word format of his/her manuscript (at least five poems or two short stories or five fiction or non-fiction pieces in English or Filipino). He/she should submit a resume, a 2 x 2 ID photo, and a certification duly signed by an institution/ company senior that the manuscript is authentic.

Fifteen fellowships are available, a percentage of which will be given to the Dominican Network of Schools, Colleges and Universities. Deadline is on Feb. 23.

For information, call 406-1611 loc. 8281 (from Tuesdays to Saturdays), or e-mail aldimalanta@gmail.com.

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Iyas Creative Writing Workshop
Date: April 23-28, 2007
Venue: Balay Kalinungan, University of St La Salle, Bacolod City

Applicants should submit original work: either 6 poems, 2 short stories, or 2 one-act play using a pseudonym, in five (5) computer-encoded hardcopies of entries, font size 12, bound or fastened, in separate folders with a diskette (MS Word). These are to be accompanied by a sealed size ten business envelope with the author's real name and pseudonym, a 2 x 2 ID photo, and short resume, which must be mailed on or before March 16, 2007.

Entries in Cebuano, Hiligaynon, Tagalog or Filipino may be submitted. Fellowships are awarded by genre and by language.

Submit to:
Dr. Gloria Fuentes
College of Arts and Sciences
University of St. La Salle
La Salle Avenue,
Bacolod City

Grant will cover board and lodging and partial transportation subsidy.
Panelists: Dr. Cirilo Bautista, Dr. Marjorie Evasco, Dr. Elsie Coscolluela, Dr. Antonio Tan, Ms. Susan Lara, and Dr. Malou Jacob.

Inquiries may be sent to glofuentes2003@yahoo.com and/or glofuentes2003@usls.edu
Sponsored by: USLS NSDC, DLSU BNSCWC and NCCA
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Chromatext Reloaded @ CCP Main Gallery

Chromatext Reloaded
at the CCP Main Gallery

Some sixty Filipino poets and writers from here and abroad, representing
several generations, get together for a rare visual cum textual art
exhibit billed as “Chromatext Reloaded” from January 25 to February 28 at
the CCP Main Gallery. The show turns a page from the Chromatext I & II
shows in the 1980s that assembled visual artworks by poet-members of the
Philippine Literary Arts Council (PLAC).

This time curated by Sid Gomez Hildawa, Jean-Marie Syjuco and Krip Yuson,
"Chromatext Reloaded" by PLAC & Friends celebrates the 25th anniversary of
PLAC, with its founders Jimmy Abad, Cirilo Bautista, Ricky de Ungria and
Krip Yuson leading the poet-exhibitors.

Their works — from holographs to photographs, illustrations with poems to
oil paintings, sculptural installations and video — will be joined by
those of other distinguished writers, among them National Artists Edith L.
Tiempo and Virgilio Almario, Raul Ingles, Gilda Cordero Fernando, Tita
Lacambra-Ayala, Sylvia Mendez-Ventura, the late Lilia Amansec, Ophelia
Dimalanta, Merlie Alunan, Marjorie Evasco, Butch Dalisay, Pete Lacaba,
Cesare A.X. Syjuco, Jun Cruz Reyes, Juaniyo Arcellana, RayVi Sunico,
Danton Remoto, Frank Rivera, Margot Marfori and Sid Gomez Hildawa.

From abroad, PLAC members and friends have sent in their contributions,
such as from David Cortes Medalla in London and Eric Gamalinda, Nick
Carbo, Luisa Igloria, Eileen Tabios, Zack Linmark and Melissa
Nolledo-Christoffel s in the U.S.A. From Baguio City, the participating
poet-artists include Butch Macansantos, Babeth Lolarga, Del Tolentino and
Frank Cimatu.

Special guest artists who happen to be close friends to writers, if not
writers themselves, include National Artists Napoleon Abueva and Benedicto
Cabrera (Bencab), Danny Dalena, Pandy Aviado, Manny Baldemor, Rock Drilon,
Fil Dela Cruz, Jean-Marie Syjuco, Judy Sibayan, Heber Bartolome, Beaulah
Taguiwalo, Erlinda Panlilio, Bheng Dalisay, Marivic Rufino, Lorena Javier,
Raul Funilla, Boy Yuchengco, Gerry Cornejo, Pancho Villanueva and Igan
D'Bayan.

Among the younger generation of poets and writers joining the exhibit are
Jovi Miroy, Vim Nadera, Fran Ng, Lourd de Veyra, Jessica Zafra, Sarge
Lacuesta, Joel Toledo, Ana Escalante Neri, Ginny Mata, Carlomar Daoana,
Mookie Katigbak and Angelo Suarez.

Performance art, readings and musical works will highlight the exhibit
opening at 6pm on Thursday, January 25, to which the public is invited, as
well as the closing ceremonies at 7pm on February 27.

Copies of the revived poetry journal Caracoa and special commemorative
editions of CD albums featuring the recorded readings of PLAC poets will
also be on sale for the duration of the exhibit. Gallery hours are from
10am to 6pm daily, except Mondays and holidays. Admission is free. For
particulars, call 8323702.

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FULL LIST OF "CHROMATEXT RELOADED" PARTICIPANTS

Gemino H. Abad
Napoleon Abueva
Virgilio S. Almario
Merlie Alunan
Lilia Amansec
Agnes Arellano
Virgilio Aviado
Manuel Baldemor
Heber Bartolome
Cirilo F. Bautista
Benedicto Cabrera
Nick Carbo
Gilda Cordero-Fernando
Gerry Cornejo
Frank Cimatu
Danny Dalena
Jose Y. Dalisay Jr.
Igan D'Bayan
Carlomar Daoana
Fil Dela Cruz
Rock Drilon
Ophelia A. Dimalanta
Marjorie Evasco
Hilario M. Francia
Eric Gamalinda
Nona Garcia
Sid Gomez Hildawa
Luisa A. Igloria
Raul Ingles
Lorina Javier
Raul Funilas
Barbara Gonzalez
Jose F. Lacaba
Tita Lacambra-Ayala
Angelo Lacuesta
R. Zamora Linmark
Babeth Lolarga
Francis Macansantos
Antonio Manuud
Ginny Mata
David Cortes Medalla
Sylvia Mendez-Ventura
Jovi Miroy
Vim Carmelo Nadera
Fran Ng
Melissa Nolledo-Christoffel s
Erlinda Panlilio
Piolo Pascual
Beaulah Pedregosa-Taguiwalo
Danton Remoto
Frank Rivera
Thelma Rivera
Alfredo Roces
Marivic Rufino
Judy Freya Sibayan
Danny Sillada
Angelo Suarez
Ramon C. Sunico
Cesare A.X. Syjuco
Jean-Marie Syjuco
Maxine Syjuco
Eileen Tabios
Joel Toledo
Delfin Tolentino
Emmanuel Torres
Ricardo M. de Ungria
Lourd de Veyra
Pancho Villanueva
Boy Yuchengco
Alfred A. Yuson
Jessica Zafra
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Cinekatipunan @ Mag:net Cafe on January 22

CINEKATIPUNAN @ MAG:NET CAFE
Monday, 22 January 2007
5:30 PM

SINGAPOREAN PROGRAM
Presented by Nai Rui Chng

Tak Giu

Tak Giu (Director Jacen Tan / 2004 / 15mins / Singlish
with English subtitles) is an indie film about
soccer/football culture in Singapore. Having taken up
the challenge of a friendly soccer match, 3 soccer
crazy boys realise that it is not easy to find a good,
free public soccer field in Singapore… if there’s any
at all. Through their journey they encounter obnoxious
care-takers, locked-up fences, deterring weather and a
persistent policeman. Will they be able to find their
dream soccer pitch? The story explores the issues of
soccer amenities, and the attitudes of Singaporeans
towards local and foreign soccer.

Completely unheralded, Tak Giu debuted on the internet
to garner over 32,000 downloads in less than three
weeks and quickly gained a cult-following. In 6
months, it had gathered 100,000 viewers. Shot with
just a camcorder, Tak Giu spread like wild-fire and
made waves in the Singaporean football and online
community.

In November 2005, Jacen Tan’s 2nd short film, Zo Peng,
won 2nd place at the Panasonic/MDA Digital Film
Fiesta, Short Film Open Category. Jacen Tan has also
produced and directed Silverpiece, a music video for
popular Singaporean indie band, Lunarin.

Jacen's new short film, 'Zo Gang' will hit the
internet by the end of 2006. His films can be viewed
on his website, Hosaywood and YouTube

Cast:
Daison Png, Stanley Huang, Jacen Tan, Lee Whye Leong,
Mohd Suhaimi
Written, Directed and Produced by Jacen Tan.
Sound/Music and Editing by Jacen Tan
(Hosay Studio 2004/05) Email: hosay at musician.org
http://www.hosaywoo d.com/takgiu/ index.php

Innocent

Innocent (Director Gek Li San & Ho Choon Hiong / 2004
/ 27mins / Mandarin with English subtitles) is a
personal documentary about a family tragedy. The
filmmakers take you on a journey into the hearts and
minds of the people who are left behind to make sense
of an unwarranted death.

Festivals/Awards
• Special Jury Prize & Special Achievement Award
(Singapore Short Film Category) 2004
• 17th Singapore International Film Festival 2004

Gek Li San is a video editor with 9 years of
experience. Her editing credits range from TV
documentaries (Discovery Channel and MediaCorp Arts
Central) to reality shows (Ch8 and Ch U),
entertainment, infotainment, sports, trailers (AXN, CH
8). She has been actively involved in making short
films for many years. A number of short films which
she edited won prestigious awards overseas. Moving
House (a documentary commissioned by the Discovery
Channel) won the Best Documentary in the 2002 Student
Academy Awards (OSCARS). Happy Birthday Sharon (an
experimental short film) won the Best Short Film award
at the 2nd AFM/International Independent Film Fest in
Istanbul, Turkey 2003.

Ho Choon Hiong's debut documentary Goddess of the Neon
City was short-listed as a finalist for Best Short
Film in the Singapore International Film Festival.
Since then he has produced other notable projects for
MediaCorp Arts Central and Discovery Channel.

Ho’s new film, I Love Malaya (co-directed with four
others) was released in 2006.
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Bayaning 3rd World @ IndieSine

Special One-Day screening of Mike de Leon's Bayaning 3rd World at IndieSine

Daluyan Awardee Mike de Leon created a masterpiece six long years ago. The few people who have seen it still remember de Leon's post-modern take on a bygone obsession of the centennial fever: the great Filipino hero, Jose Rizal.

Mike de Leon puts his characters, a director (Ricky Davao) and a writer (Cris Villanueva) on the verge of a creating a great Rizal film, on a historical adventure that unravels the various stories, true and false, about the controversial national hero. How you may ask, is it possible to make a compelling film within a film about a textbook case like Jose Rizal? "Bayaning 3rd World" both educates and dazzles under one of the greatest Filipino filmmakers of all time.

The Independent Filmmakers Cooperative (IFC) is proud to present a special ONE-DAY SCREENING of Bayaning 3rd World at IndieSine, Robinsons Galleria on January 25. Bayaning 3rd World will have five screenings on that day.

The IFC is a new organization of filmmakers that provides services to its members—from production to distribution. IFC is mainly a support and network system for indies who need help with their movies. IFC is open to all practicing filmmakers. All film practitioners who have been part of an indie film production are invited to apply.

IndieSine accepts bulk ticket sales and bookings at Robinsons Movieworld Customer Service at 632.9116.

For inquiries on IndieSine or IFC, please drop a line at ifcoop@yahoogroups.com.

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IFC Marketing and Media Office
For press passes
Margie Templo 0922.8686458
Monster Jimenez 0917.8413600
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Thursday, January 18, 2007

Singapore showcases Filipino Art

Bright colors, lighthearted themes, and an unmistakably vibrant energy are but a few of the many characteristics shared by the paintings of Filipino artists Wilfredo Alicdan and Allan Jay Balisi. Their works will be on exhibit at the Art Space of the Royal Plaza on Scotts from January 26 to February 4, 2007. Entitled Playful Moods, it will feature a selection from the two artists' recent works that focuses on the love for life and the pursuit of happiness.

Make no mistake, however. The exhibit is not a merely laugh-trip. Although Alicdan's and Balisi's happier sides take center stage, their works offer powerful images to lift up one's spirits. Trip To The Clouds features Balisi's distinct figures set against a backdrop filled with a myriad of colors. In focus is a community that seems like any other on a lazy Sunday afternoon at the park save for the fact that they are frolicking on a cloud.

A Fine Arts graduate of the Far Eastern University with a major in Advertising, Balisi has been a consistent winner in various local and national competitions. His turning point, however, was winning the grand prize in the prestigious PLDT-DPC Visual Arts Competition which used his entry as the cover of the 2003 telephone directory. His distinct style caught the imagination of all those who laid eyes on the vibrant colors and animated figures. He has been consistently exhibiting his works ever since.

Alicdan's highly-geometric, colorful figures, on the other hand, literally pops out against a background of a solid but extremely vivid color. Flight, a classic example of this, features a couple locked in a tight embrace, floating on a bright red canvas with a column running vertically to indicate how high their passion has taken them.

The stylized figures and geometric approach, Alicdan claims, is the influence of National Artist Arturo Luz whose works he has been admiring since the early stages of his career. A founding member of the Anting-Anting Group of Artists, Alicdan has had his fair share of accolades including an Honorable Mention in the Metrobank National Painting Competition, a finalist on the Philippine Art Awards, and exhibiting locally and internationally. He also lends his support for the UNICEF which reproduces his works as UNICEF cards for the benefit of children all over the world.

The exhibition is organized by Art Sentral Asia in cooperation with the Royal Plaza Scotts Hotel, PSA International, PNB Singapore and Tiger Airways. For more details and to view the exhibition online, log-on to http://www.ArtSentralAsia.com and Email: info@artsentralasia .com for inquiries.

Posted by GoodNews Pilipinas
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Annie Awards For Films Unfolds

The Annie Awards For Films Unfolds (Filipino Films)

The Cineaste Guild of the Philippines, a private film enthusiasts, announces the nominees to the Annie Awards for achievement in film.

Mes de Guzman's "Ang Daan Patungong Kalimugtong" , the story of two Igorot siblings who realizes that survival in life is easier when they are in the midst of their family in this hauntingly picaresque tale set against the perilous Mountain Province, earned 10 nominations.

Sari Llunch Dalena and Keith Sicat's "Rigodon", the story of three Filipino immigrants in New York City desperately trapped in their pursuit of the American Dream as they face their own spiritual decadence, picked up 9 nominations.

Mes de Guzman's "Diliman", the story of a writer whose state of loneliness is rooted in his dissatisfaction with the existing social order, received 7 nominations.

Aureaus Solito's " Ang Pagdadalaga ni Maximo Oliveros", the story of a boy whose infatuation with a policeman turns into a sad portrait of desire thwarted by familial love, grabbed 6 nominations.

Ian Gamazon's and Neill dela Llana's "Cavite", the story of a Filipino- American whose return to the Philippines turns into a nightmare when his mother and sister are kidnapped by the infamous Abu Sayyaf and forces him to confront the evils of terrorism, the conflict of religion and the horrors of a country in disarray, bagged 5 nominations.

The Annie Awards takes its name from the mother of the group's founding President for the Cineaste Guild likens the work of the film artist with motherhood. Like a nurturing mother, the film artist nurtures his/her own work.

It is the only award giving body that recognizes individual achievements in short films by nominating them in the various categories. It also recognizes the contribution of films that tackle socio-political concerns through the Film Reportage category. It is the group's conviction that the film artist should not be detached from what is happening in our society of the world.

THE Cineaste of the Philippines also announced it's annual picks for Ten Best Films of the Year which includes: "Ala Verde Ala Pobre" (Muchachos Bravos Filmworks), "Big Time" (Arkeo Films), "Cavite" (Gorilla Films), "Ang Daan Patungong Kalimugtong" (Sampaybakod Production and Cinelarga)," Diliman" (Sampay Bakod Production and N.C.C.A.), "Ang Lagusan" (White Windows Films Production," Masahista" (Gee Films), " Ang Pagdadalaga ni Maximo Oliveros" (UFO films), "Rigodon" (First Quarter Storm) and " Sa Aking Pagkakagising Mula Kamulatan" (Une Bloc production).

Special awards to be given this year are as follows:

The Jose Nepomuceno Award (given to a director, producer or writer for exemplary body of work). This year's recipient of the award is film auteur Mike de Leon.

An Honorary Annie for Best foreign Film will be awarded to Hany Assad's film "Paradaise Now" from Palestine- Netherlands- France.

The Lino Brocka Freedom of Expression Award (Given to an individual whose film works promotes the spirit of independence) . The award will be given to maverick filmmaker Lav Diaz.

The Gerry de Leon Film Heritage Award (Given to an individual, group or institution for the contribution to film culture).The award will be given this year to SOFIA for its unwavering work in restoration of the Filipino films.

The World Cinema Treasure Award (given to a film artist of international renown for unparalleled- contribution to world cinema). This year's recipient is Swedish film Master Ingmar Bergman.

The Annie Awards will be given during a private dinner scheduled on February 2007.
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Immortal Beauty Photo Exhibit @ Cordillera Coffee

Immortal Beauty

IMMORTAL BEAUTY
an exhibit of photographs by Ruel Bimuyag

opens on friday 19 january 2007 at sunset
followed by the screening
of Banal na Kahoy by Kidlat Tahimik

Exhibit runs until 15 March 2007
Cordillera Coffee Riverbanks Center, Marikina

for inquiries on
immortal beauty at the cordillera coffee
call 4330634 or 4822515

Cordillera Coffee
Experience Filipino Culture in a Cup!
Unit 104 Llanar Bldg Xavierville Ave. cor B. Gonzales St. Loyola Heights Quezon City
Office Phone: 632.4360324
Telefax: 632.4330634
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Thursday, January 11, 2007

Artist's Talk: Kidlat Tahimik @ Lopez Memorial Museum

Kidlat Tahimik

Artist's Talk: Kidlat Tahimik
January 20, 2007
Lopez Memorial Museum

Filmaker Kidlat Tahimik talks about his experience in Ifugao teaching a village community to document its practices, some of which are fast disappearing.

Thanks to four centuries of missionary zealousness, Thomasite school curricula and TV Eat Bulaga culture, the ancient tribal wisdom is an endangered species. Kidlat Tahimik is exploiting the user-friendliness of video technology so that Ifugaos can themselves document their old civilization which is being buried in the Lahar of Hollywood Images.

One of the take-off points of Kidlat Tahimik for his talk is a life-sized rattan woven mannequin, wearing a red Ifugao G-string which welcomes viewers to Lopez Museum's current exhibition Fuzzy Logic: Art and Technology. As viewers approach him with his Bamboo Kamera, they will see themselves in his lens. The two represent a continuum of Kidlat's lifelong battle to make Filipinos aware of how to Trojan horses of Hollywood trample on our indio-genius strengths as a people.

This talk complements the exhibition Fuzzy Logic: Art and Technology. The exhibition is the Lopez Memorial Museum's contribution to Zero in 5, a collaborative project among Ateneo Art Gallery, Ayala Museum, Bahay Tsinoy, Lopez Memorial Museum and Museo Pambata. In Zero in 5 marks the 5th year that this museum consortium has pooled its efforts to share and expand museum-going audiences and more pointedly focus on bridging formal and museum education modes.

Artist's Talk: Kidlat Tahimik will be held at the Lopez Memorial Museum in Pasig City.

For more details on Artist's Talk: Kidlat Tahimik on January 20, 2007, please call Ms. Fanny San Pedro or Ms. Joy Victoria at 631-2417.
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Land Exhibit @ Galleria Duemila

Land

"Land"
Galleria Duemila
January 6, 2007 to January 30, 2007

Featured artists:
Juan Alcazaren, Miguel Aquilizan, Lyle Buencamino, Lena Cobangbang, Jed Escueta,Nona Garcia, Jet Melencio, Hanna Pettyjohn, Gary-Ross Pastrana, Lara de los Reyes, Maria Taniguchi, Paulo Romualdez Vinluan, Alvin Villaruel.

"Land" collects recent works by a dozen and one young artists (from University of the Philippines), surveying the implications of the nebulous title, and offering a look into Philippine landscapes now. From Garcia’s sculptural oil paint volcano, Pettyjohn’s earth installation to Villaruel’s epic panorama, the show navigates personal topographies and architectural fictions through photography, painting and sculpture.

The exhibit, open to the public for free, runs from January 6, 2007 until January 30, 2007.

For more details on "Land" exhibit at the Galleria Duemila, please call Mimi Santos at 833-9815 or 831-9990.

Galleria Duemila is located at 210 Loring St. Pasay City.
Telephone numbers. 831-9990, 833-9815, 0927-6294612, 0926-6336687
Email: duemila@mydestiny.net
Web site: http://www.galleriaduemila.com
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Repertory Philippines presents Moose Murders

Moose Murders

"Moose Murders"
Repertory Philippines (Makati City)
January 12, 2007 to January 28, 2007

The Moose Murders season comedy by Frank Rich.

The heirs of a wealthy old come together and purchase the Wild Moose Lodge in the mountains. During a game of murder, one of them is murdered for real. Whodunnit?. Before dawn, more murderers take place...until the awful truth behind the Murders is revealed.

For more details on Moose Murders, contact the Repertory Philippines at 887-0710.
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ELVERT de la Cruz BAÑARES Showcase

UP Film Institute screenings this Friday

For two consecutive Fridays on January 12 and 19,
the UP Film Institute is proud to showcase works of
eKsperim[E]nto moving force Elvert de la Cruz Bañares.

Full program is as follows:

eXtermination : The Films of ELVERT de la Cruz BAÑARES
The Videotheque, UP Film Institute
January 12, 2007 – Program 1 & 2
January 19, 2007 – Program 3 & 4
5 p.m. onwards
FREE ADMISSION

PROGRAM 1: EXPONENT + 9 / WITHHELD
Approximate Running Time: 60 minutes
Works that explore themes of irony, manipulation, control, consumption
and voyeurism – with each seemingly building causal relationships.
UNDERWATER (4 min)
9:28 NG UMAGA SA KARTAXIM (5 min)
ASTRANGIAM (8 min)
CARIÑOSO (15 min)
WALLS (4 min)
PINK BROWNIES (15 min)
GEMINI (7 min)

PROGRAM 2: TOXICITY
Approximate Running Time: 90 minutes
Autobiographical videos – highlighting on Elvert’s video letter
(Plema) to his Experimental Video class and their video replies.
As a prelude, ‘Pangil’ will play before ‘Plema’.
MAY PANGIL ANG HALIMUYAK (5 min)
PLEMA (22 min)
* plus the eight selected ‘video replies’ to Plema

PROGRAM 3: RESILIENCE > INTERZONE
Approximate Running Time: 90 minutes
Earlier works directing as Anthony Jayvee Elvert, consisting of student
works and earlier ‘trips’ using Betamax, VHS, Video-8 and 16mm.
BANAL (9 min) restored version
APOY (7 min) restored version
EH…AT! (5min) restored version
ITIWARIK: TALU-SALING BATAS (5 min) restored version
PANGATLONG DULO NG AXIS (7 min) restored version
THE COCKROACH PRINCIPLE (20 min) millennium cut
F (7 min) restored version
ELEMENTAL CONSPIRACY JUNCTION (7 min) restored version
PATAK-KAMANDAG (9 min) restored version

PROGRAM 4: EXPONENT- 9 / GIVEAWAY
Approximate Running Time: 90 minutes
A rehash of Program 1 plus a few works exploring themes of irony,
manipulation, control, consumption,
voyeurism plus spaces – especially spaces. .
GEMINI (7 min)
UNDERWATER (4 min)
9:28 NG UMAGA SA KARTAXIM (5 min)
ASTRANGIAM (8 min)
SUKDULAN NG PAGRAHUYO SA DAMBANA NG SIRENANG WALANG ULO (7 min)
WALLS (4 min)
ONCE UPON A SHOWER (5 min) recently restored version
QUARESMA (8 min)
KRONUS (4 min)
* plus one new work

[Note: Each program shall start with the trailer of ALIPO-OP SA ANIMO]

ALIPO-OP SA ANIMO
[FOG IN THE CONSCIOUSNESS]
the debut full-length film by ELVERT de la Cruz BAÑARES
updated teaser to be featured in CINEMALAYA 2006!
teaser 1 - download it now!

ELVERT de la CRUZ BAÑARES
the eXterminator
http://elvert.multiply.com

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Multiple Perspectives, One Aim by Angelo V. Suárez

Multiple Perspectives, One Aim

That Perspektiba comes in multimedia is crucial: Tutok Karapatan—a collective effort among the Philippine arts community seeking to lift the fictitious shroud of art's divorce from politics—acknowledges that oppression committed by state-based machinery is structural, such that it transcends mere oppression and reconfigures itself subtly (and therefore more dangerously) as repression. Which is to say that it batters not only the body, but more importantly assaults our consciousness: its ideological apparatuses are littered everywhere and take multiple forms, and in effect become unseen factories that manufacture for us our very dreams, even our consent to dream these dreams—intangible harnesses and leashes most of us have become too willing to wear. For this reason, any artistic attempt to counter these must come in equally multiple forms.

With this university-based exhibition's focus on the propagation of alternative perspectives, it restores agency to the human subject as breathing, heterogenous functions of the dynamic process of social structuration to resist the latter's homogenizing—and consequently silencing—tendencies. And this resistance must be no less ubiquitous: it has to be as consumable as bread on display at a bakery, common as a household chair waiting to be sat on, approachable as the agreeable dog we consider to be man's best friend. Juxtaposing such ordinary things and equating them with symbolically loaded images of bullets and whitewash, lifeless dummies piled one over another, a typewriter that inflicts pain with every expression, is to render these commonplace items with a potency not normally accorded to them. The show treats the human subject as a structure in itself, thereby giving what is personal the agency and function of the political.

One should also note that the project is not just a series of gallery-set exhibitions but of uncontainable performances as well, and this is indicative not only of Perspektiba' s polymorphous nature but also its desire to undermine product in favor of process: where a killing is no mere statistic but the actual dissolution of meaningful human engagements, structures are also no mere static phantasms but dynamic convergences of numerous constituent agencies. These performances reveal that the status quo is not inert and simply given to us by higher powers; rather, it is a social construct whose process of construction we as human subjects can participate in, whether for the purpose for conservation, reconstruction, or deconstruction.

The revelation of artificiality strips hegemony of its seeming naturalness—who can question after all what is falsely perceived as the blessing of common sense?—making it vulnerable to critique and the discourse that entails it. This then is what Tutok Karapatan really does through Perspektiba: load multiple perspectives with bullets of belief then simultaneously aim them at the status quo, actively trying to make its knees tremble, keeping faith in the notion that it would one day kneel before the dream of authentic freedom.

Angelo V. Suárez


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Tutok

tutoKperspeKtiba 2

St. Scholastica’s College
2560 Leon Guinto Street, Malate, Manila
telephone no. (632) 524-7686 locals 230 or 27

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tutoK [Tutok Karapatan] is a project among the multimedia arts community that seeks to lift the shroud of art’s delusional divorce from politics. It is a loud and forward admission that all cultural production exists in actual historical contexts, in consciousness- shaping milieus that both curtail and incite rebellion in its multiple forms against the equally various appearances of oppression.

PerspeKtiba as a university-based series of performances and exhibitions is tutoK’s first line of offense against structural equilibrium. With its focus on the propagation of alternative perspectives, it restores agency to the human subject as breathing, heteregenous functions of the dynamic —but no less homogenizing—process of social structuration. perspeKtiba is an expression in multimedia of the need to actively resist not just against the oppressive system of state-centered hegemony but more so against its repressive machinery, not simply the type that overtly inscribes its ideology on policy but one that subtly firebrands its impetus on collective consciousness.

image: detail shot, Buen Calubayan sound installation “__________”
text: Angelo Suarez

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exhibition @ Amrhein Gallery Main Building St. Scholastica’s College
January 9 - January 23, 2007
Opening Reception: 3pm Tuesday January 9 , 2007
Gallery hours: 10am - 6pm Monday to Friday 10am -12nn Saturday


Benjie Torrado Cabrera
Buen Calubayan
Antipas Delotavo
Benjo Elayda
Lyra Abueg Garcellano
Lito Mondejar
Claro Ramirez
Iggy Rodriguez
Don Salubayba
Jose Tence Ruiz
Mark Ramsel Salvatus III
Yko Umadhay III

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forum @ the Battig Room 3rd flr Mechtilde Building St. Scholastica’s College
9-11 am Monday January 22, 2007


speaker: Jose Tence Ruiz
reactors: Iggy Rodriguez, Lito Mondejar
moderator: Karen Ocampo Flores

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live action @ Plaza Moriones in front of the Main Building St. Scholastica’s College
4-6 pm Monday January 22, 2007


Vivian N. Limpin
Michael Ian Lomongo
Wawi Navarroza
Edwin Quinsayas
Yko Umadhay III

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project coordinator for St. Scholastica’s College: Don Amorsolo

writers: Lisa Ito, Alex Remollino and Angelo Suarez

co-curator for live action: Victoria Deocampo

co-curator for exhibition: Iggy Rodriguez

lead curator: Mideo M Cruz

project director for tutoK: Karen Ocampo Flores

project chairman for tutoK: Emmanuel Garibay

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a tutoKarapatan project
co-presented with St. Scholastica’s College, Department of Fine Arts

tutoKarapatan@ gmail.com

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Tanghalang Pilipino restages Zsazsa Zaturnnah Ze Muzikal

ZSAZSA ZATURNNAH RETURNS:
DUE TO INSISTENT PUBLIC DEMAND!

Tanghalang Pilipino brings back its
rousingly funny hit musical based on
Carlo Vergara's graphic novel -
ZSAZSA ZATURNNAH (ZE MUZIKAL)! The
beloved parlorista superhero(ine) , is
back in fighting form to defend
a small town from a giant frog,
rampaging zombies and power-tripping
planet women. This fabulous
production will run for two weekends
from January 19-28, 2007 at the
Tanghalang Huseng Batute.

Eula Valdes reprises her role as the
stunning red-haired warrior opposite
her nemesis Queen Femina
Suarestellar Baroux, alternately
played by Agot Isidro and Kalila
Aguilos. Wilma Doesnt, Deeda Barretto,
Mayen Estañero and Tess Jamias / Skyzx
Labastilla are the man-hating
Amazonistas. The limp-wristed
beauty salon owner and his frilly-
mouthed assistant are played by Tuxqs
Rutaquio and Joey Paras
respectively. The man with the
perfect "noodles" is played by Arnold
Reyes with newcomer Janvier Daily as
alternate. Joining the remarkable cast
is the talented Tanghalang Pilipino
Actors Company.

2003 Aliw Best Stage Director Chris
Millado directs, with Shoko Matsumoto
as lighting designer and Sonny Aniceto
as stage designer. Playwright is Chris
Martinez with Vince De Jesus as
composer, lyricist and musical
director.

For tickets, reservations and
inquiries, call 832-3661 or 832-1125
locals 1620/1621.

TANGHALANG PILIPINO
(Philippine Theater)
Resident Theater Company of the
Cultural Center of the Philippines
Roxas Blvd., Pasay City
Office Telefax: 832-3661
CCP Trunkline: 832-1125 local 1620 &
1621

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Film Retrospective: Amado Lacuesta Jr.

The Women of Amado Lacuesta Jr.
By Ian Rosales Casocot

To take into consideration the slate of films written by the late
Amado Lacuesta Jr. is to consider—in the most intimate ways—the
evolution of the Filipino woman.

It is not that Mr. Lacuesta confined himself to exclusively examine in
cinematic ways the psychology and mores of the Filipina. He has
written other films of divergent concerns as well, some of them
political, and some even overtly macho vehicles for venerable action
stars.

For Lino Brocka, he penned together with Ricardo Lee, the seminal
Macho Dancer (1988), which remains to date the definitive look into
the underground lives of gay men and their dancing fancies. For Tikoy
Aguiluz and Butch Perez, he wrote Balweg, The Rebel Priest (1986), a
cinematic take on the life of Cordillera's Father Conrado Balweg who
became a rebel in 1979 and defrocked for taking up arms against
Marcos. Again for Perez, he wrote Mumbaki (1996), which is in essence
a study of cultural conflict—it is after all the story of a medical
doctor who goes home to the Cordilleras to bury his father, but finds
himself torn between tribal wars, between city and country, and
between modern and traditional ways of healing. Most famously, he
created, in collaboration with screenwriters Red Navarro and Jose
Bartolome, a testosterone star-vehicle for Fernando Poe Jr. in Ako ang
Huhusga (Kapag Puno na ang Salop Part II), about an upright police
officer's struggle against a corrupt judge.

And so, we ask: Lacuesta's screenplays as a study of women? We could
begin with his work for Pablo Santiago, whose movie with Sharon
Cuneta—the titanic Kahit Konting Pagtingin (1990)—is a certified
blockbuster.

But it is Mr. Lacuesta's early works with Ishmael Bernal, all of them
a conscientious examination of the many lives of local women, which
will come to exemplify the relatively short screenwriting career of
this former investment banker. At the age of 36, his first-produced
screenplay for Working Girls gave him instant critical recognition,
the success of which gave him the chance to pursue the writing for
television and film full time.

When it was released in 1984, Working Girls descended on unsuspecting
Filipino audiences like a thunderclap, easily capturing what was then
the zeitgeist of Filipino women who, according to a recent description
of the film, "worked hard, played hard, and made and broke rules." It
featured an all-star cast that included Gina Pareño, Chanda Romero,
Hilda Koronel, Maria Isabel Lopez, Carmi Martin, and Rio Locsin. The
film charted the lives of women toiling in the corporate bowels of
Makati—among them a roving jewelry dealer, a smart but unhappy lady
executive, a secretary impregnated by her boss, a haughty socialite, a
receptionist who becomes a call girl, and a licentious secretary—and
came up with a satire so comic it proved revolutionary. In the early
1980s, no other film tackled the male-centric culture of the local
business world, and was thus eventually championed as a shrewd (and
funny) skewering of male dominion. It preceded even the like-themed
Working Girl, directed by Mike Nichols, which starred Melanie Griffith
as a secretary who manages to break the corporate glass ceiling, and
ultimately inspired Jose Javier Reyes's Makati Ave.: Office Girls (1993).

The same year that Working Girls was released, Mr. Lacuesta wrote Mr.
Bernal's episode for the omnibus horror film Shake, Rattle, and Roll
(the first and the best of the now-tired series), and immediately came
away with the distinction of being the most effective of the three
short films included in the anthology. In Pridyider, Mr. Lacuesta and
Mr. Bernal did not have the luxury of culturally entrenched mythology
(Peque Gallaga's Manananggal) or superstition (Emmanuel Borlaza's
Baso, which tackled the occult phenomenon of "the spirit of the
glass") to rein in the audience into the story of a refrigerator
possessed by evil spirits. The farfetched story could have easily
landed the film into the murk of camp, but the screenplay succeeded in
giving its central inanimate object a true sense of horror and dread,
even with the minimalist shock effects of the refrigerator shaking or
conjuring dead body parts inside its cold confines. The undercurrents
of female sexuality, however, give the film its edge. In Janice de
Belen's virginal character, the object of the refrigerator' s seemingly
carnal intentions, we see a subtle play on the power of a woman's
burgeoning sexuality, which Pridyider has in common with Brian de
Palma's Carrie.

In 1985, the duo came up with Hinugot sa Langit, this time casting
aside the metaphoric and the satiric to engage in serious terms this
female world. In the film, Maricel Soriano—in a rare restrained
performance that foreshadowed her minimalist triumph in 2006's Inang
Yaya—plays Carmen Castro, an unmarried woman who discovers that she is
pregnant. Will she carry the child to term, or will she get an
abortion? What follows are scenes that "borrow" from the prototypical
female melodrama marred by histrionic displays, but minus the
melodrama and the histrionics—a feat for a Filipino film. In
considering her dilemma, Carmen faces off moral possibilities in the
persons of Stella (Rio Locsin), a self-confessed "independent girl"
who urges her to have that abortion, and Juling (Charito Solis),
Carmen's overly religious landlady who represents the other option.
But in drawing these characters, Mr. Lacuesta managed to render them
beyond dramatic caricatures with issues to bear, and gave the women a
complex humanity not too easy to pigeonhole.

In Eddie Garcia's Kung Kasalanan Man (1989), which Mr. Lacuesta wrote
with Raquel Villavicencio, the darker side of female psychology is
explored in savage thoroughness, with Dina Bonnevie in a dual role of
a soft-spoken and decent woman and her evil doppelganger, a one-time
friend who undergoes surgery to look like her and usurp everything she
owns, including her boyfriend. This is Barbet Schroeder's Single White
Female, three years in advance—a version which is so much more
incisive and realistic than the run-of-the-mill Hollywood
psychological thriller.

Mr. Lacuesta's last screenplay was for Mr. Aguiluz's Segurista (1996),
which he wrote with Pete Lacaba, and is remembered today as a
misunderstood contemporary masterpiece inexplicably given an X-rating
by the MTRCB. In his last film, Mr. Lacuesta returned, with a kind of
relish, to his explorations of the female condition after flirting
with commercial success and male-driven films in the early 1990s.
This time around, Mr. Lacuesta upended the theme of desperation which
was then only hinted at in Working Girls, and gave us a stark view of
things in his story of a top insurance agent, played successfully by
Michelle Aldana, who moonlights as a GRO at night. The powerful men
she meets and eventually services as a GRO at night become her
unwitting insurance clients by day, ready to buy what she is selling
to get more of her nocturnal wares. In twisting the notions of the
very 90's concepts of "synergy," "networking, " and "yuppiedom," Mr.
Lacuesta, Mr. Lacaba, and Mr. Aguiluz gave us a damning indictment of
corporate life in Fidel Ramos's short-lived tiger economy, and the sad
essentially Filipino circumstances that distorted it.

The film critic Noel Vera has suggested that Segurista, after it was
initially banned by the censors, is "a very dirty film," but for all
the right reasons: "But then," Vera wrote, "maybe it's more than just
a formulaic law applied idiotically. Maybe the censors didn't like the
sarcastic things that Aguiluz, Lacuesta, and Lacaba have to say about
our youthful businessmen, about our Great Light-Brown Hopes with their
cellulars and laptops, about Philippines 2000. Maybe it's the
insistence on dealing with dark, unpopular subjects that they don't
want, the digging up of dirt they'd rather not see. Maybe it's not the
sensuality, it's the honesty. Maybe they're right: it IS the dirtiest
film of the year."

In New Year's Day 1997, Mr. Lacuesta—whose literary accomplishments
included the Palanca Award for his short stories and plays, and whose
passions included photography, golf, and history—died from a heart
attack while in Baguio for the holidays with his family. He had, by
then, gone back to becoming a banker, but someone who still had more
stories to tell. He was 49 years old.

In the scheme of cinematic things, the screenwriter sometimes is the
forgotten artist in the collaborative effort of film art, overshadowed
by the actors and, in terms of auteurship, by the director. It is a
tragic mistake.

In a career that produced ten films of consistent excellence and which
have given many of our actresses (Soriano, Pareño, Romero, Cuneta,
Bonnevie, Aldana, and many others) the roles of their lives, Mr.
Lacuesta has the distinction for being a man with a lot of worthwhile
things to say about women. Among screenwriters in the industry, Mr.
Lacuesta had indeed proven by and large that he was without equal.

A retrospective of Amado Lacuesta's films will be shown in UP Film
Institute's Cine Adarna, Magsaysay Avenue, UP Campus, Diliman, Quezon
City, from January 23-24. The slate includes Working Girls, Segurista,
Balweg, and Mumbaki. Go to www.madslacuesta.com, or email
info@madslacuesta.com, for more details.
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Wawi Navarroza's Saturnine @ Silverlens Gallery

SILVERLENS GALLERY
presents

WAWI NAVARROZA

"SATURNINE"
A Collection of Portraits, Creatures, Glass & Shadow

Opening reception
JANUARY 18, 2007 6:00pm - 9:00pm

Show runs until
FEBRUARY 17, 2007

ART TALKS:

"UNDERSTANDING PHOTOGRAPHS: TYPES AND CONTEXT"
art talk with professor Judy Freya Sibayan
January 27, 2007 3:00pm - 5:00pm

"SEEING IN METAPHOR: MYTHS & ARCHETYPES"
artist dialogue with poet Nerisa del Carmen Guevara
February 3, 2007 3:00pm - 5:00pm

"THE OTHER SIDE OF WONDERLAND"
Wawi Navarroza artist talk
February 10, 2007 3:00pm - 5:00pm

Wawi Navarroza's Saturnine @ Silverlens Gallery
Artist sponsored by BELLA LUCE STUDIOS
Special thanks to Kodak Professional and Museo ng Maynila

Silverlens Gallery is located at 2320 Pasong Tamo Extension, Makati City.

For inquiries on Wawi Navarroza's Saturnine @ Silverlens Gallery, please email manage@silverlensphoto.com or call (+632) 816 0044. Gallery hours are 10am - 7pm, Mondays thru Fridays and 1pm - 6pm on Saturdays

Silverlens Gallery - Location landmarks: beside DPC building, right in front of Bristol-Myers, beside Karivin Plaza (Starbucks)
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First Films @ Cinekatipunan Mag:net Cafe

"What I like best is going to see someone’s first
film.
I try to divine the future pitfalls and the present
splendours.
All the future ouevre is there."

– Alain Cavalier, PROJECTIONS 4 ½

You are invited to the FIRST FILMS program of
Cinekatipunan on Saturday, January 13, 5:30-7:00 PM.
Featuring the Production Theses of recent Film and
Audio Visual Communication graduates of the University
of the Philippines Film Institute.

Tey Clamor: SAKDAL LAYA
Mark dela Cruz: MISTERYO NG HAPiS
Sol Garcia: TAGAPAGLIGTAS
Tanya Grace Jamon: KALARO
Dohna Sarmiento and Glenn Ituriaga: ONE MAN SHOW

(Curated by Mark dela Cruz. Everyone is also invited
to attend the visual arts exhibit opening of Maria
Taniguchi at the gallery downstairs. Free Admission.)

Synopses of the Films

Tey Clamor: SAKDAL LAYA (Experimental
Narrative/2006/ 14 min 46 sec/with E.S.)
A dream like film that revolves around the mystery
behind a painting, which leads to a brutal rape, and
an end that will question what freedom is. Three women
of different generations travel through time and
space, and experience life’s tragedy

Mark dela Cruz: MISTERYO NG HAPIS (Narrative/2006/ 15
min/Kapampangan with E.S.)
A father waiting for forgiveness…
A son asking for acceptance…
… And a past that binds them two.

Filming your own life is a very hard thing to do. It
takes a lot of courage and determination in doing such
a film. For me, I see it as reel versus real: inside
the reel is the reality of life. And I am very much
afraid on the question of how will I be able to
convince my audience that what is inside the reel is
actually real. Sometimes there could be painful past
that can never be easily forgotten due to the big scar
it had left. And only time knows when it would totally
heal. Packed with much courage and determination, here
it is… an emotional story about a person going on a
dilemma in trying to heal his never forgotten past.
Forgiveness and Acceptance. Matriarchy and Patriarchy.
Sorrows and Joys.

Sol Garcia: TAGAPAGLIGTAS (Narrative/2006/ 14 min 50
sec/with E.S.) is film is about the lives of
small-time abortion service providers. Lupe is an
overprotective mother who aborts babies to support her
daughter Cristina. Anghel, on the other hand, is
Lupe's agent who looks for potential customers and
accompanies them to her house. A sudden turn of events
happens when Cristina gets pregnant and tries to abort
her baby herself.

Dohna Sarmiento and Glenn Ituriaga: ONE MAN SHOW
(Narrative/2006/ 14 min)
One-Man Show explores the realizations of a man as he
delivers the performance of his life: from the
bright lights of his peak as a star until his eventual
descent into obscurity. When all the lights of
prestige
go down, will he cease to believe in himself as well.

Tanya Grace Jamon: KALARO (Narrative/2005/ 19
min/without E.S.) Nightmares are something that seems
so harmless. It is as if everybody gets nightmares
once in a while. But for Helen, an early 30’s woman,
her nightmares have been part of her reality. Even as
she wants to face her present positively, her
nightmare keeps on haunting her and keeps weighing her
down. These recurring nightmares have been memories
of her past that she thought she had buried already.
But it keeps on living inside her. How could she
finally leave behind this haunting past?

Held Mondays to Saturdays at Mag:net Café Katipunan,
Cinekatipunan screenings start at 5:30 PM. The film
screenings are free but viewers are encouraged to make
voluntary contributions for the honoraria of the
filmmakers. Any amount will be highly appreciated.
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
email magnetcafekatips@yahoo.com.ph or visit
www.magnet.com.ph.
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Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Sinulog 2007 Video Documentary Competition

Sinulog Foundation, Inc.,
in cooperation with the Cebu City Government and Cebu Filmmakers' Society, Inc.
presents:

The
Sinulog 2007
Video Documentary Competition

Join us in our 3rd year of the annual search for the best documentary of the country's well attended religious celebration, considered as the "Mother of All Festivals in the Philippines" - the Sinulog Festival!
One Beat, One Dance, One Vision!

Be a part of the Sinulog 2007 Video Documentary Competition
and win the Grand Prize: Pph 30,000.00 / trophy
Second Prize: Pph 20,000.00 / trophy
Third Prize: Pph 10,000.00 / trophy
(7) Pph 1,000.00 Consolation Prizes

Deadline of Registration : January 15, 2007

For more information, contact:
Ron Heri Tan
Chairman
Sinulog Video Documentary Competition Committee
09272589909 / ronheri888tan@yahoo.com
or
Sinulog Foundation Office
Ground Floor, Cebu city sports Complex, R. R. Landon St., Sambag II, Cebu City
Telephone Numbers: (032) 253-3700 / 254-5010 / 253-2224 Telefax: (032) 416-4845

Sinulog 2007 Video Documentary Competition
Website: www.sinulog.ph
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