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Technophilia
Pera-perahang Lata (Penny from the Tin Can)
Aninag (Light’s Play)
Karsel (Prison)
The Philippine-Korean-Iraqi 16mm short film “Technophilia” will have a screening at “RAW: Las Vegas Presents Fusion” on Aug. 25, 2011 (Thursday) at Tommy Rocker’s in Las Vegas. If you’re in the Vegas area on the said date, you’re invited to come to the event and support local artists. You can buy tickets through this link. Buying ahead of time will only cost $10 for a night of film, music performances, photography, mixed media, and performance art exhibitions, and fashion show.
“Technophilia” will start the showcase at 8:30 p.m. For more information about the film, you can check out the: trailer, film stills, behind-the-scene photos, and film blog. This film is produced by Colorwheel Media Studios through the help of the Korean Film Council, Korean Academy of Film Arts, and Korea University.
Synopsis
Inside a hangout place, the game addict boyfriend gets boxed up by his techie lifestyle, which further alters his relationship with his already fed-up girlfriend. Things become more and more mechanical as they move on.
More About RAW Artists Events
You can also check out the video of last month’s “RAW: Las Vegas Presents Illuminare” for an idea of what’s to come for the next showcase. You can also view videos of other RAW Artists events: “RAW: Los Angeles Presents Incite” and “RAW: New York Presents Artcade.”
What is RAW?
RAW: natural born artists is an independent arts organization, for artists, by artists.
Our mission is to provide independent artists of all creative genres with the tools, resources, and exposure needed to inspire and cultivate creativity. RAW educates emerging artists through seminars, workshops, and insights to further knowledge of their industries.
RAW connects them with one another so that they may grow together, while also providing them with opportunities to give back to their own local youth communities through the arts.
We encourage the creative success of the many visionaries and storytellers of our generation.
Grassroots Showcase Events
RAW handpicks and spotlights local artistic talents in film, fashion, music, visual art, hair and makeup artistry, and performance art. With artists from all genres in each showcase, RAW events come together to form an amazing circus of creativity.
What Can You Expect when Attending the RAW Showcase?
We screen an independent film (usually a short, webisode, or music video), a fashion show from an up-and-coming local designer, a musical performance, an art gallery featuring several independent visual artists, and performance art (comedy/dance/fire dancers, you name it…). You’ll get a little taste of everything. Combine all this creativity with drinks, fun, and good company! To partake in the experience, RSVP ($10/ticket) in the “Showcases” section of the event.
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MANILA SKIES
DATE: SATURDAY, MAY 1
TIME: 7:30 PM
VENUE: DGA 2
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MANILA SKIES (Himpapawid)
(Philippines, 2009) Dir./Scr.: Raymond Red
Video, 110 min., color, narrative, in Tagalog w/ E.S.
In a rural province, a poor farmer finds a bag of money and jewelry. He pays off some debt and vows to send his young son away to the city to find a better life. He commands the boy never to return home. And, in one dramatic cut, from the boy carrying woven baskets on his shoulder to the boy as a man lifting large parcels at a Manila loading dock, we begin Raymond Red’s deceptively simple and affecting parable.
Ten years after winning the first Palme D’Or awarded to a Filipino for his sublime short film ANINO, and after refining his technical chops on big budget commercials, Raymond Red returns with MANILA SKIES, an allegorical tale of the slow deterioration of a man’s spirit when faced with insurmountable adversities. It follows Raul, a soon-to-be unemployed dock worker desperately trying to land an overseas job and hoping to make enough money to return home to his ailing father. Raul’s earnest attempts become mired in Kafkaesque bureaucracy and pure rotten luck. Much of the blame however rests on his volatile and erratic behavior. He is a percolating brew of misfortune and busted idealism. His inevitable breakdown leads to his involvement with a gang of amateur thieves and eventually a collapse that brings him to carry out a far-fetched attempt at hijacking an airplane in order to get back home to his father.
It’s perhaps a modest linear plot, but in Red’s hands, MANILA SKIES reaches heights uncommon in many films. A subtle twist here and a play with expectations there, and suddenly a whole world opens up revealing a radical and dramatic film heavy with consequences and colored with nuances. Vividly shot with, funnily enough, the über-high definition RED camera, Red photographs the city in a palette of subdued browns, greens, yellows and grays. Raul merely blends in with the faded and stained walls of his apartment, the deteriorating concrete buildings, and the cluttered cityscape. Raul is an everyman, pushed to the brink. In the film, he is a vessel for the frustrations of the impoverished in the Philippines (80% of the population are poor, as a reporter claims in the film). MANILA SKIES depicts his hopes crumbling as his own morals disintegrate along with it. In a country where a majority of its population is of Raul’s circumstance, the film poses a sobering and dire calamity.
— Joel Quizon
COMMUNITY CO-PRESENTERS: FilAm ARTS, Inc.; Search to Involve Pilipino Americans, Inc.
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