MALAYSIAN SHORTS FOC
Kelab Seni Filem Malaysia presents MALAYSIAN SHORTS curated by Amir Muhammad
Time : Monday. 28 March 2005. 8pm.
Venue : HELP Institute Auditorium, Pusat Bandar Damansara, KL.
Admission: FREE!
The highly popular Malaysian Shorts series rides again! This time presenting 12 shorts in slightly less than 2 hours. Ask questions to the directors, and then vote for your 3 favourite shorts of the night! The session will be hosted by "Shortcuts" compere Fahmi Fadzil.
LINE-UP:
1) Three Lives (Woo Ming Jin/USA/2003/13 min)
This is the local premiere of an American short by the award-winning Malaysian director. Jake wakes up by a sidewalk and finds his girlfriend kidnapped. He has three chances to save her by locating a mysterious box. This is a live action “video game’!
2) BROKEN WINGS (Wickneswaren/Malaysia2005/14 min)
To pay tribute to the new boom in Malaysian Tamil independent filmmaking, we present the first of two Tamil shorts. “Broken Wings” is an action-thriller melodrama in which one wayward youth reflects on the choices he has made, and their violent consequences. A hyper-kinetic movie that even has space for a Mano Maniam cameo.
3) 1,3,5 (Kit Ong/Malaysia/2005/10 min)
The first of three psychological shorts by Kit Ong (who might be the next big thing), this is the most experimental. A beautifully framed, dialogue-free triptych in which living beings hover around as ghostly specters … or it could be the other way around.
4) LINDA (Kit Ong/Malaysia/2005/8 min)
Ween sees Linda at a bus-stop and offers her a lift, saying they were at school together. Linda is not quite convinced but gets into Ween’s car anyway, the silly girl. A successfully restrained, blackly comic thriller that evokes early Polanski.
5) THE GIRL WHO CANNOT CRY (Kit Ong/Malaysia/2005/3 min)
Happiness is a little tear-drop.
6) ANNIVERSARY HAPPY (Justin Ong/Malaysia/2005/11 min)
Yuppie domestic drama, which seems utterly conventional until you notice something’s not quite right with the time scheme…
7) LIVING DEAD DOLLS (Siti Nuraishah Baharum/Malaysia/2005/2 min)
Dialogue-free sketch of a fat girl who is oppressed by the dominant values of normative heterosexism. Honey, tell us about it!
8. I DREAM OF THE FAT MAN (Mak Joon Keat/Malaysia/2005/4 min)
The only animation entry in our programme, this is a surreal odyssey with a self-explanatory title.
9) 28 HOURS LATER (Ng Ken Kin, 14 min)
Low-budget Malaysian DV meets big-budget British DV in this cheeky intertextual ride. A party-goer wakes up after a night of disco fun, only to find himself alone. Should he blame it on the boogie?
10) CHITAPPA (Kannan Thiagarajan/Malaysia/2005/15 min)
Raghu, a young web designer, seeks love on the Internet. This is how he meets Nisha. But a surprise awaits them. The first local Tamil romantic comedy short you have seen.
11) CROOK (Aaron Chung/Malaysia/2003/5 min)
The badass Rizal, posing as an anti-fried chicken crusader, thinks he’s found an easy mark when he chances upon a young girl. But who’s the baddest of them all?
12) BERNAFAS DALAM LUMPUR (James Lee/Malaysia/2005/18 min)
Azman (Azman Hassan), a photographer, likes the strong and quiet Lina (Mislina Mustaffa). But he knows they can’t be together. Lina’s heart is still with Meor (Mohammad Hariry), who has been in prison these last five years. Meor’s release is set to change the directions of all their lives. Will Meor’s meeting with his old partner in crime, Din (Nam Ron), resolve their unspoken tension?
Time : Monday. 28 March 2005. 8pm.
Venue : HELP Institute Auditorium, Pusat Bandar Damansara, KL.
Admission: FREE!
The highly popular Malaysian Shorts series rides again! This time presenting 12 shorts in slightly less than 2 hours. Ask questions to the directors, and then vote for your 3 favourite shorts of the night! The session will be hosted by "Shortcuts" compere Fahmi Fadzil.
LINE-UP:
1) Three Lives (Woo Ming Jin/USA/2003/13 min)
This is the local premiere of an American short by the award-winning Malaysian director. Jake wakes up by a sidewalk and finds his girlfriend kidnapped. He has three chances to save her by locating a mysterious box. This is a live action “video game’!
2) BROKEN WINGS (Wickneswaren/Malaysia2005/14 min)
To pay tribute to the new boom in Malaysian Tamil independent filmmaking, we present the first of two Tamil shorts. “Broken Wings” is an action-thriller melodrama in which one wayward youth reflects on the choices he has made, and their violent consequences. A hyper-kinetic movie that even has space for a Mano Maniam cameo.
3) 1,3,5 (Kit Ong/Malaysia/2005/10 min)
The first of three psychological shorts by Kit Ong (who might be the next big thing), this is the most experimental. A beautifully framed, dialogue-free triptych in which living beings hover around as ghostly specters … or it could be the other way around.
4) LINDA (Kit Ong/Malaysia/2005/8 min)
Ween sees Linda at a bus-stop and offers her a lift, saying they were at school together. Linda is not quite convinced but gets into Ween’s car anyway, the silly girl. A successfully restrained, blackly comic thriller that evokes early Polanski.
5) THE GIRL WHO CANNOT CRY (Kit Ong/Malaysia/2005/3 min)
Happiness is a little tear-drop.
6) ANNIVERSARY HAPPY (Justin Ong/Malaysia/2005/11 min)
Yuppie domestic drama, which seems utterly conventional until you notice something’s not quite right with the time scheme…
7) LIVING DEAD DOLLS (Siti Nuraishah Baharum/Malaysia/2005/2 min)
Dialogue-free sketch of a fat girl who is oppressed by the dominant values of normative heterosexism. Honey, tell us about it!
8. I DREAM OF THE FAT MAN (Mak Joon Keat/Malaysia/2005/4 min)
The only animation entry in our programme, this is a surreal odyssey with a self-explanatory title.
9) 28 HOURS LATER (Ng Ken Kin, 14 min)
Low-budget Malaysian DV meets big-budget British DV in this cheeky intertextual ride. A party-goer wakes up after a night of disco fun, only to find himself alone. Should he blame it on the boogie?
10) CHITAPPA (Kannan Thiagarajan/Malaysia/2005/15 min)
Raghu, a young web designer, seeks love on the Internet. This is how he meets Nisha. But a surprise awaits them. The first local Tamil romantic comedy short you have seen.
11) CROOK (Aaron Chung/Malaysia/2003/5 min)
The badass Rizal, posing as an anti-fried chicken crusader, thinks he’s found an easy mark when he chances upon a young girl. But who’s the baddest of them all?
12) BERNAFAS DALAM LUMPUR (James Lee/Malaysia/2005/18 min)
Azman (Azman Hassan), a photographer, likes the strong and quiet Lina (Mislina Mustaffa). But he knows they can’t be together. Lina’s heart is still with Meor (Mohammad Hariry), who has been in prison these last five years. Meor’s release is set to change the directions of all their lives. Will Meor’s meeting with his old partner in crime, Din (Nam Ron), resolve their unspoken tension?
2 Comments:
wow! someone is up to date....hehe thanks girl for all these infos on events. but if this is an invitation to the ya's, please organize a week earlier. sorry im busy with vtc stuff, forgot to look out the wondow.
however, i was invited to this screening. this is where my 'free' video started off! it's like a tradition for me ever since. so im definitely going. it's not compulsory for the rest, but those who likes to conceptualize besides stuff on stage, i encourage to go, since it's free anyway.
trish, david, azhar, sums, arif, alia, paik yin, mike etc... joining me?
those who cant such as sums and mike...i understand. we're just inviting.
My office is right there. Will try to make it. Do I need tickets?
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