This Week @ Cinekatipunan

THIS WEEK AT CINEKATIPUNAN
Monday to Saturday, March 5-10, 2007

This week’s Cinekatipunan features an eclectic mix of
foreign and local, full-length and short works. The
selection kicks off on Monday with the work Cries and
Whispers by Swedish film-maker Ingmar Bergman on
Monday. Tuesday, KODAO Productions features a short
documentary produced during the 2005 Hong Kong
demonstrations against the World Trade Organization.

Wednesday delves into art and fashion with a work by
German filmmaker Wim Wenders on Japanese fashion
designer Yohji Yamamoto on Wednesday. Mia Buenaventura
features her short films Gantsilyo and Leon on
Thursday while Emman dela Cruz features his
directorial debut Sarongbanggi on Friday. Saturday’s
program on campus-based film-makers features student
works from the Fine Arts Department of Kalayaan
College, selected by visual artist and teacher Jay
Ticar, and the Multi Media Arts Department of the
College of Saint Benilde, selected by teacher,
filmmaker, and Eksperimento film festival director
Elvert Banares.

5 March (Monday)
Ingmar Bergman: CRIES AND WHISPERS

Cries and Whispers
(1972, Sweden, 91mins)
Ingmar Bergman's dream play is set in a manor house at
the turn of the century where a spinster in her late
30s is dying. Her two sisters have come to attend her,
and they watch and wait, along with a peasant servant.
The movie is built out of a series of emotionally
charged images that express inner stress, and Bergman
handles them with the fluidity of a master. Superbly
photographed by in a style suggesting Edvard Munch,
and with blood-red backgrounds, the film is smooth and
hypnotic; it has oracular power and the pull of a
dream. Yet there's a 19th-century dullness at the
heart of it. Each sister represents a different aspect
of woman—woman viewed as the Other—and the film
mingles didacticism with erotic mystery.

6 March (Tuesday)
TUDLA Productions and KODAO Productions

DA DOU SAI MAU (Junk WTO)
January 2006 28:40 mins
(To be presented by Raymund Villanueva)
A documentary on the raging protests that filled Hong
Kong streets against the World Trade Organization' s
Third Ministerial Meeting (2005). Bayan Muna Rep.
Teddy Casino explores Hong Kong and guides us to the
creative protest actions from delegates of different
countries.

KODAO Productions produces and distributes multimedia
and related materials on timely and relevant subjects
to promote the self-determining and democratic
struggle of the Filipino people for cultural,
political and economic development. Kodao produced the
award winning radio program, Ngayon Na, Bayan!, which
was cut off the air upon the proclamation of PP1017 in
February 2006.

7 March (Wednesday)
From Conrado's Cabinet:

Notebook on Cities and Clothes
1991 80 mins Road Movies Filmproduction GmBH
Berlin
German film maker Wim Wenders engages design maverick
Yohji Yamamoto in an articulate dialogue about the
rootless quality of our identities, cities and
fashion. Wenders incorporates a dizzying,nearly
discordant,and highly inventive array of video images
invading, breaking down and blocking out clear, crisp
film shots. The film is both a delightful and
despairing tour through the 20th century systemof
visual language with Wenders as a charming
philosophical guide.

8 March (Thursday)
Mia Buenaventura’ s Short Films

Leon

A 7-minute experimental film that suggests a possible
ending to “The Prodigal Son” parable. The film
centers on the good son and how he resolves sibling
rivalry and sibling jealousy issues. Whereas evil can
turn to good, the good can just as easily turn to
evil. Ronnie Lazaro stars in the leading role.

Gantsilyo

The narrative DV movie tells of a grandmother whose
elaborate knitted creations affect the lives of her
family. Armed with her needles and balls of yarn,
Grandma employs time-weathered wisdom and loving hands
to heal hearts with every stitch. Gloria Romero plays
the lead role.

Mia Buenaventura is no newcomer in the indie movement.
Largely committed to the short film format, she has
done several shorts since college at the Ateneo where
she took up AB Communications. She wrote and directed
“Leon”, in 16-mm format and a Gawad-CCP winner, while
she was at Mowelfund. Her first narrative DV is
“Gantsilyo” starring Gloria Romero. “Gantsilyo” has
been screened at the “Pelikula at Lipunan Festival”
and at the U.P. Film Institute during the “Women
Filmmakers Festival”. The film was a Cinemalaya entry
and currently nominated for best short film in the
Cineaste Film Association of the Phils.’ Annie Awards.
Mia also did several AVPs and past Clients
include Coca-Cola and Gillette Philippines. A new
short film project is lined-up for 2007.

9 March (Friday)
Eman Dela Cruz: SARONGBANGGI

Sarongbanggi (One Night)
04 mins. color/sound NTSC video
An intense encounter between an aging prostitute and a
sixteen-year old boy in a night of seduction,
connections and revelations.

The night begins... A boy is celebrating his sixteenth
birthday with his rowdy group of friends who all agree
- there's no better gift to give him than his first
sexual experience. They book him a night with a
prostitute. The night grows deeper… The boy strikes an
unusual connection with a sensual but older woman.
What starts out casually turns intimate and
surprisingly tender. In this most unusual one night
stand the teenage boy loses his virginity and the more
experienced, toughened woman rediscovers her
vulnerability.

Sarong Banggi features a most memorable and riveting
performance by the luminous Jaclyn Jose, one of the
Philippines' truly great and most awarded actresses
(and who’s iconic fallen woman role in films like
“White Slavery,” and “Private Show” inspired and
informed the role of Jaclyn in this film) and an
exciting star turn by first-time actor Angelo Ilagan.

Written and directed by: Emmanuel A. Dela Cruz
Official Selection: ImaginAsian, New York and Cine
Asia, Barcelona, Spain

10 March (Saturday)
Campus-based Filmmakers
Featuring short works by KALAYAAN College Fine Arts
Majors and students from the Multi Media Arts
Department of the College of Saint Benilde
(selected by Jay Ticar and Elvert Banares)

This Saturday’s first batch from CSB features eight
works: Empathy for Emmanuel by Rafael de Leon;
Unforseen by Jason Confesor; Dalangin by Love
Nakagawa; Abo by Dino Mark Reyes; Sabaw by Anton
Miguel Halagena; Blindness Within by JR Siojo;
Paggising sa Mundong Tulog by Paolo Miguel Lopez; and
Tu(la)ya by Raine Orallo.

Four works produced by third year and second year
students from the Fine Arts department of Kalayaan
College under the Visual Studies and Art Theory class
of Jay Ticar: Sangandaan (2007, 8 mins.), a narrative
work by Gato Borreo about the personal crossroads
faced by a peasant boy: whether to migrate to the city
or to remain in the countryside; an 8-minute narrative
video about a tatoo by Camillo Guanzon; Hand-Droid (8
mins.), a documentary work by Dave Cuenca featuring
the production process of an abstract painting; and a
three-minute animation work by Angelo Alejandro.

Held Mondays to Saturdays at Mag:net Café
Katipunan,?Cinekati punan 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 Filipino 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.