Dear Friends, Colleagues and Art lovers!
These are the interesting SE Asian documentaries
we will screen this weekend, 7PM, on our rooftop:
Fri., 13th of July: ISAN GHOSTS by Robert Millis/USA
+ ISAN POP & FOLK MUSIC by Sublime Frequencies/USA
Sat., 14th of July: BUILDING A DREAM by Nico Mesterharm/GER
Filmmaker will be present at the screening…
More infos and our completed July schedule is copied below.
See you soon, with kind regards,
Nico Mesterharm
P.S. Yesterday we successfully opened our new art exhibition “HEARTS OF DARKNESS – HEARTS OF LIGHT: Reflections on the Reamker and the Ramakien”. by NYC artist Bruce Gundersen. His color photomontages vividly reflect the traditional myths of Southeast Asia using contemporary computer imaging. We invite you to have a look at it Fridays or Saturdays, 6PM to Midnite. For special appointments pls. call….
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DOCFILMS WEEKENDS @ META HOUSE
EVERY FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, 7PM
Fri., 13th of July: ISAN GHOSTS by Robert Millis/USA
+ ISAN POP & FOLK MUSIC by Sublime Frequencies/USA
Sat., 14th of July: BUILDING A DREAM by Nico Mesterharm/GER
Filmmaker will be present at the screening…
Fri., 20th of July: THE FLUTE PLAYER by Jocelyn Glatzer/USA
+ THE BATTLE TO REBUILD SBAEK THOM by Chuon Sarin/Cambodia
Filmmaker will be present at the screening…
Sat., 21st of July: EVERYSOMEWHEREEVER
(The unstill life of Stephen Eastaugh) by Stephen Eastaugh/Australia
Filmmaker will be present at the screening…
Friday, 27th “HEAVEN’S MEADOW” by Detlev Neufert/Germany
Filmmaker will be present at the screening…
Sat. 28th of July: LONEGONE by David Eberhardt/USA
and a trailer for the film KORSANG, that is currently shot in Phnom Penh
Filmmaker will be present at the screening…
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MORE INFOS ABOUT OUR JULY FILMS…..
Fri., 13th of July, 7PM: ISAN GHOSTS
Brimming with colour and music “Ghosts of Isan” (director: Robert Millis/USA) documents a unique festival held in a small town in Thailand’s Isan province. The film puts the viewer in the middle of the festivities, creating an immersive “you are there” experience featuring masgnificent masks, ornate costumes, phallic charms, ceremony, drinking, dancing and endless addictive Molam music… EXTRA: Video “ISAN Pop Music” (Sublime Frequencies/USA)
Sat., 14th of July, 7PM: BUILDING A DREAM
In February 1999 the German architect Michael Weiss came to Cambodia – fascinated by the ruins of Angkor but moved by the numerous child beggars. Weiss purchased 2.5 ha of land in Phnom Penh. There he is building a children’s village, which has been designed by vulnerable children. “Building a Dream” (director: Nico Mesterharm/Germany) is a long-term documentary that follows this unique aid program from its beginning…
Fri., 20th of July, 7PM: THE FLUTE PLAYER
If the Khmer Rouge had not taken over Cambodian in 1975, Arn Chorn-Pond probably would have carried on his family’s legacy and become an opera star. Instead, at the age of nine Arn was thrust into the darkness of Cambodia’s ghastly Killing Fields. Now, after living in the U.S. for 20 years, Arn faces the dark shadows of his war-torn past as he fights to save Cambodia’s once outlawed traditional music from extinction. (Director: Jocelyn Glatzer/USA)
Plus: THE BATTLE TO REBUILD SBAEK THOM – short documentary by Chuon Sarin about two groups of puppeteers that were very famous puppet troupes in Siem Reap before the Khmer Rouge era. Today, these two troupes continue to rebuild itself after the Khmer Rouge, but they struggle to maintain this art form.
Sat., 21st of July, 7PM: EVERYSOMEWHEREEVER
(The unstill life of Stephen Eastaugh)
Steven Eastaugh (Australia): “During the past two decades I have somehow managed to travel to over 70 countries on all continents. Many places were short pit stops while others I spent some months in attempting to sink roots. Roots did not form or I was only able to produce aerial roots so a tumbleweed type of life has become my mode of living. Travel is a sort of home. Home as a concept has become very fluid. Like many people I have a gluttony for kilometres and new experiences, I get bored with stability and I have a distaste for possessions. Perhaps this is why I planted myself in a studio at Davis station in East Antarctica over the summer of 2002/03…”
Friday, 27th HEAVEN’S MEADOW by Detlev Neufert
Heaven’s Meadow is a documentary about the Baan Gerda village. This community is the first children’s village in Thailand where HIV-positive orphans find again a family and a future. They receive the life-prolonging ARV-therapy and grow up similar to ordinary children. For the Baan Gerda kids AIDS is not their fate but a disease which needs to be treated. Heaven’s Meadow is a moving film about hope – even if there is no cure for AIDS yet. Could the children’s village of Baan Gerda become a future model for other countries?
Sat. 28th of July: LONEGONE by David Eberhardt/USA
“David Eberhardt and Jack Cahill spent seven years riding the rails, asking for spare change and swapping stories around campfires with train hoppers. Their labors are repaid with a mesmerizing documentary full of touching characters and beautiful landscapes…. “Long Gone” poignantly captures a marginalized homeless group for which misconceptions have far too often prevailed and shows that the yearning for community doesn’t change much from person to person, even if the definition of community does. (Sean Fowler for the Tribeca Film Festival)
