Goodbye Cinema, Hello Cinephilia
Posted by ramon at September 1st, 2010One of Alexis’ heroes was film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum. His latest collection, Goodbye Cinema, Hello Cinephilia: Film Culture in Transition (The University of Chicago Press) is already out in some stores in the United States. In the catalogue, its given release date is October 2010.
The book is dedicated to the memory of Alexis and Nika.
(Photo by Lia Martinez)
Tales
Posted by Erwin Romulo at August 14th, 2010
AmBisyon2010 – SOON ON ANC
Posted by Erwin Romulo at February 15th, 2010The Tioseco-Bohinc Film Series: Ray Gibraltar’s “When Timawa Meets Delgado”
Posted by Erwin Romulo at January 15th, 2010The Tioseco-Bohinc Film Series picks up where Alexis Tioseco left off with his Fully Booked screenings, casting light on independent cinema that deserve more audience than it has.
An extension of the tireless passion and unconditional love both he and Nika Bohinc put into giving permanence and viability to truly independent cinema, it is also an active remembering of their work and life.
Long championed by Alexis Tioseco, Ray Gibraltar’s “When Timawa
Meets Delgado” (2007) is one of local independent cinema’s best-kept
secrets, an experimental narrative documentary about health care and
the nursing boom in the country that is virtually indescribable and
also funny as hell.
The film will be shown on Sunday, January 17, 2010, at Fully Booked
High Street (U-View) from 3 PM to 5 PM. Filmmaker Ray Gibraltar and poet
J.I.E. Teodoro will be in attendance. Admissions is free, hope to see you there.
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A Master Class with Jorgen Leth
Posted by Erwin Romulo at November 17th, 2009.Mov and Batang West Triangle Screenings presents A Master Class with Jorgen Leth held at the U-View, Fully Booked High St.
This video was produced and directed by Arnold Arre.
Thanks again to Rhea Llmas, JC Pullan and Jason Tan.
Special thanks to Rolly Palmes and Dan Holmberg.
A MASTER CLASS WITH JORGEN LETH
Posted by Erwin Romulo at November 8th, 2009.MOV and Batang West Triangle Screenings: Jorgen Leth
A note from Jorgen Leth: “I will select some clips and discuss things like “pure filmmaking”, deconstruction, language, grammar, putting the single image above context, working with a single roll and “hypnotic implicity”, making films like notebooks, the existential feeling of time passing through a film scene, working with movements and time, inspirations like The Living Theatre, Grotowski, Godard, Cassavetes, Dreyer, Julie Rainer, Warhol, talk about “cinema pauvre, using Bolex, the film roll counts down of eternity, about fascination and curiosity as the motor for my filmmaking, about the necessity to reinvent film language, to question what is image, what is sound, what is editing, or discuss my confidence in chance. I see chance always as a gift in fiction as well as in documentary, my idea that film should be like poems, don’t know where it goes and why, never wrote a script, not even for my fiction films, the idea of studying human actions and being under a microscope, people doing simple things, facing camera, no need to move around and be busy etc., and basic thoughts like bringing order in chaos, the clarity of tableaux. There are many angles to talk about my method, as you can see – also how to travel, how to use your senses. I work with rules of game, as in “The Five Obstructions”, limitations, in some films camera can’t move, in other no editing. I would like to discuss all these kind of basic and maybe shocking ideas with the students.”
Jorgen Leth will conduct as Master Class on Nov.13, Friday at 2 p.m. Fully Booked Bonifacio High St. In cooperation with Khavn dela Cruz, Society of Film Archivists of the Philippines (SOFIA) and Uno Magazine.
Thanks to Rolly Palmes.
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A Halloween Clip From UNO
Posted by Erwin Romulo at October 30th, 2009SAVE FILM! HERE’S HOW!
Posted by Erwin Romulo at October 17th, 2009
As one of the lead organizations dedicated to the cause of audiovisual preservation in the country,The Society of Filipino Archivists for Film (SOFIA) has lined-up a series of activities in celebration of the World Day for Audiovisual Heritage on October 27, 2009, at the Cultural Center of the Philippines starting at 9am.
As declared by the UNESCO, October 27 has been designated as the World Day for AV Heritage to raise awareness to the significance of AV documents and to draw attention to the need to safeguard them. With this year’s theme “Fading Heritage: We Can Save It” as backdrop, the following activities have been slated:
- Seminar workshop on the basic handling and preservation of audiovisual materials.To be conducted by SOFIA officers Makk Junio, Emma Rey and Mary del Pliar, this workshop will cover storage, handling, restoration methods, equipment recommendations and disaster preparedness.
- Launching of the SOFIA website. SOFIA goes online with the launch of its official website where visitors can learn more about the organization and its various programs and activities, receive the latest news and updates, as well procedures on how to volunteer and be a member.
- Screening of Richard Abelardo’s Mutya ng Pasig. To cap off the day’s events, and to honor the memory of film preservation stalwart Alexis Tioseco, there will be a screening of Richard Abelardo’s classic 1950′s film Mutya ng Pasig.
A fee of 500.00 pesos will be charged per participant and is inclusive of a workshop kit, snacks, certificate of participation and membership to SOFIA.
For more details, please contact Vicky Belarmino at 832-1125 loc. 1704 to 1705 or Monchito Nocon at 0920 2836393 or email sofiaphils@gmail.com
