META HOUSE
Street 264, #6 – Sangkat Chaktomuk, Khan Daun Penh,
Phnom Penh, Kingdom of Cambodia
Fixed +855- (0)23 – 224 140, Mobil +855- (0) 12- 607 465
Homepage: www.meta-house.com,
email: mest...@gmx.net
Dear Friends, Colleagues & Art Lovers!
On the coming weekend (July 18-19 2008) Meta House is proud to host
THE FIRST UNAFF TRAVELING FILM FESTIVAL PHNOM PENH
with social justice documentaries related to human rights, war, poverty, and the environment.
A representative from the festival will be here to faciltate post-film discussions.
On-Going ART EXHIBITION by Svay Ken, Cambodia's "Naive" star painter….
(Open from Tuesday to Sunday, 6PM), Until July 18
This is our cinema program for the week –
detailed infos at the bottom:
TUE, 15/07 ARTIST SPECIAL: Blues Night with John Lee Hooker and J.J. Cale
Enjoy live videos from these 2 KINGS OF THE BLUES
WED, 16/07 GERMAN CINEMA: THE TIN DRUM
Written by Günther Grass and directed by Volker Schlöndorff. (1980, 142min)
THU, 17/07 GERMAN CINEMA: DER FREIE WILLE (German language only!)
Mit Jürgen Vogel (2006, 163min, auch für Hörgeschädigte,)
FRI, 18/07 THE FIRST UNAFF TRAVELING FILM FESTIVAL PHNOM PENH (1)
DOUBLE FEAT. "DIGITAL DUMP: EXPORTING RE-USE AND ABUSE TO AFRICA" and ON A TIGHTROPE"
SAT, 19/07 FIRST UNAFF TRAVELING FILM FESTIVAL PHNOM PENH (2) "EN ROUTE TO BAGHDAD"
SUN, 20/07 SET IN ASIA Surprise Feature Film presented by Florianne Wilde (PhD Film theory).
For detailed information, please contact directly Florianne Wilde: fwil...@hotmail.com
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DEATAILED INFOS
TUE, 15/07
ARTIST SPECIAL: Blues Night with John Lee Hoocker and J.J. Cale
John Lee Hoocker war an influential American post-war blues singer, guitarist, and songwriter born in Coahoma County near Clarksdale, Mississippi and J.J. Cale, the a Grammy Award-winning American songwriter and musician best known for writing two songs that Eric Clapton made famous, "After Midnight" and "Cocaine". Cale is one of the originators of the Tulsa Sound, a very loose genre drawing on blues, rockabilly, country, and jazz influences. Enjoy live videos from these two KING's of the Blues…
WED, 16/07
GERMAN CINEMA: THE TIN DRUM
Danzig in the 1920s/1930s. Oskar Matzerath, son of a local dealer, is a most unusual boy. Equipped with full intellect right from his birth he decides at his third birthday not to grow up as he sees the crazy world around him at the eve of World War II. So he refuses the society and his tin drum symbolizes his protest against the middle-class mentality of his family and neighborhood, which stand for all passive people in Nazi Germany at that time.
Written by Günther Grass and directed by Volker Schlöndorff. (1980, 142min)
THU, 17/07
GERMAN CINEMA: DER FREIE WILLE
Theo, ein Vergewaltiger, kommt nach 9 Jahren aus dem Maßregelvollzug. Seine Angst vor Frauen und die damit verbundene unerfüllte Sehnsucht machen sein Leben in der Normalität zu einem Martyrium. Nettie schafft es mit 27 Jahren endlich, sich von ihrem Vater zu lösen, der sie ihr ganzes Leben lang psychisch missbraucht hat. Theo und Nettie begegnen sich. Als sie anfangen, sich zu lieben, beginnt ihre gemeinsame Reise an die Grenzen des freien Willens. Von Matthias Glasner mit Jürgen Vogel (2006, 163min, nur deutsch, auch für Hörgeschädigte,)
FRI, 18/07
THE FIRST UNAFF TRAVELING FILM FESTIVAL PHNOM PENH
DOUBLE Feature
DIGITAL DUMP: EXPORTING RE-USE AND ABUSE TO AFRICA
If you have ever wondered what happens to a computer when you get rid of it, this is the film for you. It traces the computers from North America and Europe to West Africa, one of many regions that is on the receiving end of an escalating global trade in toxic, obsolete discarded computers. If you are concerned about what could happen to Cambodia, please come and join us. (23 minutes, by Jim Puckett, precedes On a Tightrope)
ON A TIGHTROPE
This poignant documentary about the Uyghur, Muslim minority in western China was the first film successfully made about the region. It screened at the Sundance Film Festival and tells the story of Uyghur children living at an orphanage who aspire to be daredevil tightrope walkers. Though their struggles and triumphs, we gain rare access to life as a minority in China, and to the aspirations of young people even in the most deprived environments. (60 minutes, by Petr Lom)
SAT, 19/07
FIRST UNAFF TRAVELING FILM FESTIVAL PHNOM PENH
EN ROUTE TO BAGHDAD
This film tells the story of one person's effort to make a difference as part of the United Nations, and is as much a story about the UN as it is about the man, Sergio Vieira de Mello. Anyone who was in Cambodia during UNTAC knows of Sergio, who oversaw the repatriation and later became Kofi Annan's special envoy to Iraq. This film traces his life, including his time in Mozambique, Cambodia and East Timor, as a metaphor for the evolving role of the United Nations. If you contemplate what role the UN should play, and whether one person can make a difference, this film is worth seeing.
(56 minutes, by Simone Duarte, Ane Soanes and Kristine Candeso)
SUN, 20/07
SET IN ASIA
Films presented by Florianne Wilde (PhD Film theory). For detailed information, please contact directly Florianne Wilde: fwil...@hotmail.com
