experimental no-budget no-star video+film encounters
events for all films celebrating unpretentious and candid creativity in no-budget format, and humans who appreciate them.
no curating, no posing, no artistic concept.
send us your weirdness as digital film (raw cuts ok).
no discrimination or unneccessary isms. (ask if in doubt).
experimental formats of all kinds welcome, including p0rn.
egos kindly asked to stay outside. diversity of all kinds not only welcome but an essential basis of this event. all are welcome.
“the revolution will not be televised” but we will screen some.
This time ft:
Andrew Hartwig – JNB Documentary
Annisa and Sabrina are two friends who make music together in Samarinda, a coal-mining city on the Indonesian island of Kalimantan. Sarana, their band, began by playing small, spontaneous shows in Samarinda in 2015 and has since taken them all over their home country and abroad. Healing Noise invites the audience to explore the unique culture of their city, the challenges of making art on the margins of their region’s culture industry, and the thing that forms the basis of everything they do: their friendship and their shared love of creativity.
Sopheak Sao – Two Girls against the Rain
They met during the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime, when coincidence led them to live in the same mobile unit. After a year Soth Yun and Sem Eang realized that they loved each other.
Two million people died during the Khmer Rouge years. Yun and Eang survived.
Today the lesbian couple live in a village in Takeo province in southern Cambodia like husband and wife. It has been a long fight to be respected by fellow villagers and their families. And the fight continues – now for their rights to marry.
The couple does not have children of their own, but have raised several nieces and nephew.
This 11 minutes long documentary was screened twice at Meta House in Phnom Penh in May and June, 2012.
After almost 30 years of civil war and the genocide committed by the Khmer Rouge, Cambodia is still one of the poorest countries in the world. Traditional values and customs such as arranged marriages are upheld. Same-sex sexual activity is legal when it involves non-commercial acts between consenting adults in private. While traditional cultural mores tend to be tolerant in this area, even expressly providing support for people of an intermediate or third gender, LGBT rights legislation has not yet been enacted by the ruling government.
The short documentary TWO GIRLS AGAINST THE RAIN by Cambodian female filmmaker Sao Sopheak is the first locally produced documentary, which gives a voice to members of the lesbian community.
It is s true story about two women struggling hard for their love. Soth Yun and Sem Eang met during the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime, where more than two million people died. Soth and Sem survived. Today the couple lives in a village in Takeo province in southern Cambodia, approximately 40 kilometers away from the capital Phnom Penh. They do not have children of their own, but have raised several nieces and nephew. Theirs has been a long fight against stigmatization by fellow villagers and their family. And the fight continues – now for the right to marry legally.
Ahmad Khan – Burqa School
tbc
Eric DesJeux – Bembaya Jazz National & Mista Zé
The BEMBEYA JAZZ NATIONAL of Guinea
A meeting in Conakry (Guinea) with the Bembeya Jazz National, a Guinean jazz group that gained fame in the 1960s for their Afropop Rythms. They are considered one of the most significant bands in Guinean music.
In the aftermath of the Guinean independence in 1958 and through the cultural policy of “authenticité”, which encouraged cultural pride, numerous bands were created throughout the regions of Guinea.
In the early years of independence Guinea’s president, Ahmed Sékou Touré, disbanded all private dance orchestras and replaced them with state supported groups.
The most popular was Bembeya Jazz National, formed in 1961, Blending Guinean mandingo musical traditions with Cuban and Congolese influences.
They were the first in Africa to make a musical « Régard sur le passé » about the struggle of Almamy Samory Touré against imminent colonial rule in Guinea.
FR with ENG subs – 20 minutes
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MISTA ZÉ
The rapper-hairdresser of Kankan Nabaya (Guinea)
FR with ENG subs – 9 minutes