Tag - vietnamese artists and musicians

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Jun02

Saigon Electric (2011) Film Review

Vivian Hua 華婷婷

When director Stephane Gauger prefaced Saigon Electric by requesting that the audience not take it too seriously, I had to wonder what kind of journey I was in for. Turns out, a fairly unpleasant one. This film foray into Vietnamese breakdancing and...

From Native Hawaiian filmmaker Christopher Kahunahan comes WAIKIKI, a drama that captures the surreal darkness lurking beneath images of paradise. Kea, a woman working three jobs while healing from an abusive relationship, is nevertheless given no choice but to reckon with her past after accidentally hitting a homeless man with her car. – ALISON SMITH USA | 2020 | 77 minutes | Christopher Kahunahana (Kanaka Maoli) SCREENS WITH: PIIKSI _Huia -- Huia dreams to be a principle ballerina for the country’s top academy. During her audition, an unexpected visitor shows up during her final bid to impress. Only this time, her ancestors are the audience. New Zealand | 2020 | 8 min. | Cian Elyse White (Ngāti Awa/Ngāti Poro), Joshua Manyheads (Siksika) /// ⠀ Our @SIFFNews previews for Seattle International Film Festival 2021 are here! Read them all at http://bit.ly/redefine2021siff ⠀ The entire festival runs April 8-18, 2021; see full listings at http://siff.net/festival :)⠀ ⠀ #Seattlefilm #SeattleFilmmaker #NWFF #NWFilmForum #NWFilms #NWFilmmakers #PNWFilms #SeattleInternationalFilmFestival #SIFF2021 #ExperimentalFilm #ExperimentalFilms #HawaiianFilm #HawaiianFilms #SIFF #NativeFilm #NativeFilms #IndigenousFilm #IndigenousFilms @cianelysew @gruesome_venom @indigenousshowcase @niatero @tracyrectorart @chriskahunahana
EVERYDAY MUSIC is closing ❤ @everday_music_seattle #Repost @vanishingseattle After nearly 20 yrs on #CapitolHill & 4 different locations, the beloved Everyday Music at 1520 10th Ave is closing May 16th. EM announced in February, citing “ongoing pandemic struggles & no rent relief.” #EverydayMusic offers 100K+ used records, tapes, CDs, VHS, DVDs & more – drawing music lovers & artists from all over the world – including @bill.frisell and @EltonJohn (who went on a vinyl shopping spree)! EM also hosted in-store shows for local groups like @chazzybelt & @sassyblackcat. Opened in 2003 by Scott Kuzma, Everyday Music was displaced from its original Broadway location by light rail construction. In 2008 it moved to #Broadway & Pine in the space that’s now Blick Art Supplies. Everyday moved to 10th Ave in 2010, next to Elliott Bay Book Co for about a year, then was displaced by high rent (the building is owned by Hunter’s Capital). It’s been in its current location next to Rancho Bravo (formerly KFC) for 9 yrs. EM also has a shop in Bellingham & 2 in PDX. Apparently a pandemic rent reduction was asked from landlords & #Seattle’s was the only shop refused. Since 2014, there’s been a #redevelopment plan for the 1926 former #AutoRow building (BMW service garage followed by a parking garage - VS intern Aeon made a music video there!) plus Rancho Bravo, for a 6-story apartment building. Property owner/developer Ron Amunduson told Capitol Hill Seattle those plans aren’t moving forward soon & he’s hoping to find a new tenant. When I stopped in, many customers were expressing sadness at EM’s closure - & dread over what might replace it…as one older gentleman said, “it probably won’t be meant for me.” Silver lining: a couple employees are hoping to carry on EM’s legacy in some way/re-open a smaller record shop elsewhere in the city…stay tuned for more info on how you can support! Go pay your respects to EM & that incredible wide open space perfectly suited for worshipping music. They’re open 11-6 everyday. Many thx @aeon_corvidae for the research! #seattlemusic #seattleculture #seattlecommunity #seattlecharacter #seattlesoul #displacement #gentrification
Illustration of Sutaya al-Mahamali by Fahmida Azim, from “Muslim Women Are Everything” -- full article on southseattleemerald.com ~ by Samira George (This article was originally published by Real Change and has been reprinted under an agreement.) Azim immigrated to the United States from Bangladesh when she was 6 years old. She has faced many obstacles while pursuing a career as a professional artist. Even her choice of medium was influenced by the financial factors; art supplies like acrylics are expensive, whereas digital materials are infinite. Family support was nonexistent. Azim explained that it’s been hard for South Asian Muslims like herself to convince family members that there’s a place in the arts for her. “When you’re an immigrant, the story you’re told about what success is different,” she said. “I don’t think it’s because of some stereotype of culture … that we aim for just these three jobs: doctor, engineer, or lawyer. I think it’s because we’re put in a position where we’re told we can’t pursue anything else.” #ssemerald #southseattleemerald #blackhistorymatters #seattleart #seattleartist #seattleartists @realchangenews @fahmida_azim @samirakgeorge #SouthAsianArt #SouthAsianArtist #MuslimArt #MuslimArtist #VisualArt #VisualArtist
THE ALDRICH CARE BOX! #Repost @thealdrich • • • • • Check out our current exhibition, the Aldrich Care Box, in Forbes (@forbes). The Aldrich Care Box is a year-long traveling exhibition unbound to a physical space. ⁠ ⁠ “The box is a miniature museum, a viewing space, a crate,” says Senior Curator Amy Smith-Stewart, who along with Director of Education Namulen Bayarsaihan, conceived of the idea for the care boxes. “There’s an opportunity to install these artworks in your own home, among your own things.” In a way, Smith-Stewart notes, this brings the artworks closer to their moment of creation. ⁠ ⁠ Read the full article in @forbes via @thealdrich! ⁠ Aldrich Care Boxes are available for loan out to the public January 31 to December 31, 2021 from The Museum’s Front Desk. Reserve your Aldrich Care Box today at thealdrich.org. ⁠ ⁠ Image: Aldrich Care Box. Photo: Christopher E. Manning #SeattleFilm #SeattleFilms #SeattleFilmmaker #NWFilms #NWFilmmakers #NWFilmmaker #SeattleFilmmakers #NWFilm #PacificNWFilms #FilmEducation #FilmWorkshop #PacificNWFilmmaker #PacificNWFilmmakers @christopher.e.manning #AldrichCareBox
POTATO DREAMS OF AMERICA is screening at SIFF 2021! Catch our new interview with director Wes Hurley: bit.ly/redefinepotato⠀ ⠀ ///⠀ ⠀ Seattle writer and director Wes Hurley’s feature debut, Potato Dreams, is at once a colorful pastiche of past memories and an unconventional queer coming-of-age tale. Premiering at SXSW 2021, the film is set partly in Vladivostok, Russia, just after the fall of Communism, and partly in Seattle, Washington, after Hurley and his mother eventually immigrate there.⠀ ⠀ While still in Russia, Hurley is portrayed by Hersh Powers as “Little Potato” — a young boy who becomes obsessed with American movies as soon as bootleg TV channels become available. He shares company with his mother (Sera Barbieri), who works as a nurse in the corrupt prison system, and his grandmother (Lea DeLaria), whose love is cold and stern. Also in the atmosphere are peer-aged students Little Potato has almost nothing in common with, and a flamboyant Jesus Christ (Jonathan Bennett), which symbolizes Hurley’s “obsession” with Jesus as a young Christian boy.⠀ ⠀ Complete with world-bending elements of magical realism, custom-built sets, musical numbers, and plenty of ensemble cast, Potato Dreams of America manages to squeeze a deeply considered aesthetic and high production value out of a modest budget. It drew on the collaborative expertise of cinematographer Vincent Pierce, lighting designer Robert Aguilar, who has a theater background, and production designer Kristen Bonnalie to push forth a cohesive cinematic vision.⠀ ///⠀ ⠀ READ THE INTERVIEW w/ WES: bit.ly/redefinepotato⠀ ⠀ GET THE TICKETS @ SIFF (April 8-18): siff.net/festival ⠀ READ ALL OUR FESTIVAL PICKS: bit.ly/redefine2021siff ⠀ @potatodreamsfilm @mischajakupcak elizashelnuts @sarahroxycrowe @potatohurley #SeattleFilm #SeattleFilms #SeattleFilmmaker #NWFilms #NWFilmmakers #NWFilmmaker #SeattleFilmmakers #NWFilm #PacificNWFilms #FilmEducation #FilmWorkshop #PacificNWFilmmaker #PacificNWFilmmakers #WesHurley @siffnews
Georgian film Bebia, á mon seul désir is screening now at Seattle International Film Festival 2021! Presented in luscious black and white, Bebia combines a death ritual and traditions of a rural Georgian hillside town with a modern score and filmmaking approach. Following the death of the family matriarch, a teenage girl is given the task of stringing a thread through sixteen miles of forest — to forge a path between the deceased’s place of death and her coffin. – VIVIAN HUA   Georgia | 2021 | 118 minutes | Juja Dobrachkous /// ⠀ Our @SIFFNews previews for Seattle International Film Festival 2021 are here! Read them all at http://bit.ly/redefine2021siff ⠀ The entire festival runs April 8-18, 2021; see full listings at http://siff.net/festival :)⠀ ⠀ #Seattlefilm #SeattleFilmmaker #NWFF #NWFilmForum #NWFilms #NWFilmmakers #PNWFilms #SeattleInternationalFilmFestival #SIFF2021 #ExperimentalFilm #ExperimentalFilms #JuliaDobrachkous #GeorgianFilm #GeorgianFilms #Bebia @bebia.film
EAST OF THE MOUNTAINS! Making its world premiere at SIFF 2021 is East of the Mountains, a film directed by SJ Chiro and adapted from the acclaimed novel of the same name, by David Guterson, author of Snow Falling of Cedars. Filmed in Eastern Washington, it stars the inimitable Tom Skerritt as a terminally ill surgeon who readies himself for the end of his life — but faces some unexpected twists and turns along the way. SIFF will also honor Skerritt’s storied career with an award and exclusive interview. – ALISON SMITH /// ⠀ Our @SIFFNews previews for Seattle International Film Festival 2021 are here! Read them all at http://bit.ly/redefine2021siff ⠀ The entire festival runs April 8-18, 2021; see full listings at http://siff.net/festival :)⠀ ⠀ #Seattlefilm #SeattleFilmmaker #NWFF #NWFilmForum #NWFilms #NWFilmmakers #PNWFilms #SeattleInternationalFilmFestival #SIFF2021 #SJChiro #ExperimentalFilm #ExperimentalFilms @sjchiro @eastofthemountains @sebastienscandiuzzi @therealtomskerritt #davidguterson
Our @SIFFNews previews for Seattle International Film Festival 2021 are here! Read them all at http://bit.ly/redefine2021siff ⠀ ⠀ Including FAYA DAYI by Jessica Beshir ⠀ @jessybeshirfilms @fayadayi⠀ ⠀ This impressionistic documentary weaves together vignettes centered on the Ethiopian plant khat, a psychedelic crucial to the country’s economy. In gorgeous black and white, Faya Dayi follows both users and producers of khat, which has been used in Sufi rituals for centuries and remains legal in Ethiopia. – ALISON SMITH⠀ ⠀ PRERECORDED Q&A⠀ Screening features a prerecorded Q&A with Jessica Beshir (director).⠀ ⠀ Ethiopia | 2021 | 119 minutes | Jessica Beshir⠀ ⠀ ///⠀ ⠀ The entire festival runs April 8-18, 2021; see full listings at http://siff.net/festival :)⠀ ⠀ Read all previews at http://bit.ly/redefine2021siff⠀ ⠀ #Seattlefilm #SeattleFilmmaker #NWFF #NWFilmForum #NWFilms #NWFilmmakers #PNWFilms #SeattleInternationalFilmFestival #EthiopianFilm #EthiopianFilms #AfricanFilm #AfricanFilms #Psychedelic #Khat #Psychedelics #Documenatry #Documentaries #JassicaBeshir #FayaDayi #ExperimentalFilm #ExperimentalFilms
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (MOT) presents Mark Manders: The Absence of Mark Manders. #Repost @e_flux #MarkManders On view until June 20, 2021 Image: View of Mark Manders' studio More information at e-flux.com/announcements :)
INDIAN LAND #Repost @travelingwest • • • • • Desert X
NEW WEBSITE!!! redefinemag.net We are also seeking new writers. Please DM or scope the ABOUT section of the website for details. On the front page: - Vivian Hua @hellomynameisvee interview with Wes Hurley @potatohurley for POTATO DREAMS OF AMERICA @potatodreamsfilm - Interview with ghanian-australian musician GENESIS OWUSU @genesisowusu - Rana San @ranitasan on Yellow Fish Durational Performance Art Festival x Annabel Turrado @yellowfishfestival @essence_a_ -- culminating this May in performances in Red Hook, NY - Alison Smith @alison.j.smith on coming-of-age film SOPHIE JONES @sophiejonesmovie by Jessie Barr @barrjessie - Bump on Gina Altamura's @darlinggleen lengthy nerd-out piece, A JUNGIAN GUIDE TO NORTHERN EXPOSURE redefinemag.net go read it all #SeattleFilm #SeattleFilms #SeattleFilmmaker #SeattleFilmmakers #NWFilm #PacificNWFilms #PortlandFilm #PortlandFilms #PortlandFilmmaker #PortlandFilmmakers #PacificNWFilmmaker #PacificNWFilmmakers #ComingOfAgeFilm #ComingOfAgeFilms #FemaleFilmmaker #WomenFilmmaker #FemaleFilmmakers #WomenFilmmakers #YellowFishDurationalArtFestival #YellowFishFestival #NWFilm #PacificNWFilms #LAArtist #LAArt #LosAngelesArt #LosAngelesArtist #PortlandFilmmakers #PacificNWFilmmaker #PacificNWFilmmakers #DurationalArt #DurationalArtist #PerformanceArt #PerformanceArtist
RAW ESSENCE: The Durational Performance Art of Annabel Turrado,featuring an interview. Article by Rana San @ranitasan - http://bit.ly/redefineraw⠀ ⠀ In Raspado, using a tool for making Mexican snow cones, she calls for the abolishment of ICE through a repetitive deliberate gesture, shaving away at a solid 50-pound block of ice for 3.5 hours. The physical implications of this exertion remain largely undocumented in the video, though the blood, sweat, scrapes, and aches are easily inferred. “My parents immigrated to California in the 70s from a small town outside of Guadalajara, Mexico,” Turrado reflects, “so that unborn us (my siblings and I) didn’t have to grow up breaking our backs like they did.”⠀ ⠀ Tiling nine asynchronous frames of action, she crafts an audiovisual cacophony, a dizzying accumulation of street sounds and curious strangers set against a relentlessly rhythmic scraping.⠀ ⠀ //⠀ ⠀ This piece is one of a series showing at Yellow Fish Durational Performance Art Festival VI — a long form inquiry into durational performance as a means to support methods of staying alive in our present times. Turrado is one of nine featured artists whose participation in YFVI will culminate in a live performance May 2021 in Red Hook, New York.⠀ ⠀ Read the article by @ranitasan at REDEFINE: http://bit.ly/redefineraw⠀ ⠀⠀ Learn more about Yellow Fish at @yellowfishfestival or Annabel Turrado at @essence_a_⠀ ⠀ ⠀ #YellowFishDurationalArtFestival #YellowFishFestival #NWFilm #PacificNWFilms #LAArtist #LAArt #LosAngelesArt #LosAngelesArtist #PortlandFilmmakers #PacificNWFilmmaker #PacificNWFilmmakers #DurationalArt #DurationalArtist #PerformanceArt #PerformanceArtist #LatinxArtist #ICE #Immigration