Videotage & Microwave presents
URBAN NOMAD Hong Kong
3-nights of underground film - Outside of the ‘Black Box’
2008 March 7 / 8 / 9 (Fri/Sat/Sun)
Venues: Videotage (To Kwa Wan, Kowloon), Imperial Cinema (Wanchai), and KLUUBB (Footak Building, Wanchai)
PROGRAM
“Cinema,” says philosopher Slavoj Zizek, “is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn’t give you what you desire – it tells you how to desire.” But if we are to live our lives in a media environment, which now seems inevitable, how do we take back our desires?
For this event, Taipei’s Urban Nomad Film Fest, working with HK’s hometown crews of Microwave and Videotage, brings together a package of indie shorts from Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore and the Philippines plus two international features. T
he shorts come from emerging categories – underground, DIY, DVD magazines, activist films, video art, skate/surf flicks – that show how film can be a medium for communication and community rather than just entertainment and telling us how to look cool.
Saturday’s main feature, Crossing the Line, provides a first ever look at the life of an American GI who defected to North Korea in the 1960s and amazingly found happiness there. Filmmaker Nick Bonner will be coming in from Beijing for a talk and gathering following the screening.
The Sunday program, Pervert’s Guide to Cinema starring rock star philosopher Zizek, is a reassessment of mainstream cinema history (and also an indie film!) that looks at where film has been over the last 100 years and why we might just be ready for something new.
Venues
Videotage: Unit 13 Cattle Depot Artist Village, 63 Ma Tau Kok Road, To Kwa Wan, Kowloon
KLUUBB: 14/F, 367 Hennessy Road, Foo Tak Building, Wanchai, Hong Kong
+852 8171 7211 | kluubb.tk
Imperial Cinema: 42 Burrows Street, Wah Tao Building, Wanchai (near Wanchai Road)
Having been closed and out-of-business for years, the Imperial Cinema remains as it was 30 years ago with the original lights, decorations, mirrors and movie posters from the 80’s. Years of non-use and neglect have left the interior theatre spaces and seats deteriorated. In hopes to make use of the forgotten retro cinema space, (before land investors come to reclaim and gentrify the building) we will be taking over a section of the gallant central hallway for a special feature-night screening event.
Price
Suggested donation: 30hkd per program
Schedule (subject to minor changes)
07/03/2008 (Fri)
@ Videotage 7:30pm Everyday Tsunamis: Socially conscious documentaries, from HK, Taiwan and across southeast Asia (90min)
9:15pm Hong Kong Indie Shorts + Wholphin - the San Francisco DVD magazine with shorts by Miranda July, Eroll Morris. (90min)
08/03/2008 (Sat)
@Imperial Cinema 7:00pm Taiwanese Indie Shorts: from Internet films to winner of Venice Critics’ Prize Lin Jing-jie (90min)
9:00pm North Korean documentary Crossing the Line (90min) w/ talk with filmmaker Nick Bonner (UK/Beijing)
08/03/2008 (Sat)
After-party @Kluubb Midnight till late Free after-party w/ fun surf/skate videos from Urban Nomad.
09/03/2008 (Sun)
@Kluubb 7:00pm
Pervert’s Guide to Cinema (150min)
- closing gathering
