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VIDEO LIBRARY

VIDEO LIBRARY

Experimenta Video Library Experimenta Video Library houses a collection of over 250 experimental and independent videos and films.

This documents some highlights of the titles from the collection.

The films are provided free for viewing for educational institutions.

Enquiries for screenings could be sent to : info@experimenta.hk

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Films from the Experimenta Video Library are screened in different venues each year. Here's some of our screening partners.

HiddenAgenda Clockenflap Fringe Club Videotage

Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre University of Hong Kong Black Box Theatre Art Central

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Art Central 2016:

'Screen X Poetry'

SCREENXEXPERIMENTA OPENS ON 22TH MARCH 2016 AS PART OF ART CENTRAL

SCREEN X EXPERIMENTA will be presenting three amazing avant-garde film programs over the course of the duration of Art Centra. Experimental films are so called because they refuse to follow the accepted protocols in filmmaking and are innovative in their narrative techniques.

The films selected from the Experimenta Video Library are all recent productions by filmmakers from over the world, including Bahrain, France, Spain, Japan, Algeria , Australia and the last but not least from our native Hong Kong.

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'Screen X World Drama' The first program, Screen X World Drama, show short films that are way outside the commercial mainstream and connect with the audience with the unique worlds and realities of the filmmakers.

The second program Screen X Poetry, hopes to bring the audience to experience a visual feast that takes them from Hong Kong, to Russia and to India. It's slow, hauntingly beautiful music and sound will take your breath away in the midst of a very busy harbour front location.

I would like to add that both films are directed by minority women filmmakers, an important mission of Experimenta is to show filmmakers who are not given enough chances in the commercial world.

Highlights:

Songs, is from Bahrain and allows the audience , in a mere 3 minutes, a peek into the heart of an arabic woman and a life that can not be tolerated but by a delusion, and a past life that cannot be evoked without a trick. (Asian Premiere / Hong Kong Premiere / in Arabic with English subtitles).

Another film, The Road to Day Dream Mine, made by Gina herself, is an exploration of th e alienation and lost dreams of those who dwell in the emptiness in their hearts in the pursuit of meanings. Shot in the Australian desert at Broken Hill , it will be premiered at Art Central.

'Screen x Stage' The last program Screen X Stage shows two genre-crossing films:one film reinterpreted the western theatre and other one reconstructed a Japanese Kabuki play.

Intense and gorgeously filmed, one in the United States and the other filmed in an 18th Century traditional Japanese stage, these are two mesmerizing films with beautiful imageries.

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Program 1 ( 62min) Screen X Experimenta WORLD DRAMA (All with English subtitles)

The Road to Day Dream Mine ( World Premiere ) | Hong Kong / Australia | Poetry | Chinese diaspora | 3min | 2015 | Language : English and Cantonese In an abandoned coal mine in the middle of the Australian desert; she was in search of the lost souls who hunted for gold.

Cold Turkey Songs | Bahrain | Senior | 3min | 2012 | Asian Premiere | Language : Japanese Between a present life that can be tolerated by nothing but delusion, and a past life that cannot be evoked without a trick.

Lucy | France / USA | Comedy | Cinema | 10min | 2014 | Asian Premiere | Language : French Lucy is deciding whether she is an actress, a director or merely a fictional character. Is fiction meeting with reality or is it the other way around ?

Venus | Japan | Fantasy | Horror | Women | Social | Anime | 15min | 2015 | Hong Kong Premiere | Language : Japanese The mysterious super heroine Dynamic Venus : also a housewife who is beaten up by her husband every day. But her real nature was an alien.

Kos D | Algeria / France | Mystery | History | 2014| 15min | Hong Kong Premiere | Language : Russian In a KGB bunker, the day after man landed on the Moon, a woman with psychic powers gets brainwashed to kill the head of NASA.

Broken | Spain | Youth | 2012 | 3min | Language : Spanish They are broken. Words sometimes means nothing.

EVE | Hong Kong | Local Life | Social | Music | 3min | 2013 | Language : English and Cantonese Local filmmaker Nicola Fan makes this music video about the local scenes, bursting with energy and a sense of inclusion for the people of Hong Kong.

| Iceland | Thriller | 13min | 2013 | Language : Icelandic It is difficult to wake up from a nightmare when are you not asleep.

Program 2 (55min) SCREEN X Experimenta POETRY I Feel as if I am Vanishing | Hong Kong / Netherlands | Poetry | Sensual | 15min | 2014

Katia | Russian Federation/India | Poetic | Road Movie | 40min | 2014 ( World Premiere ) A visual poetry and a road movie about one Russian girl, who left everything and moved to India. She has nothing except small bag and tragic story behind. In this eternal flow of life, Kate's life is just a blink in the eye. But the whole eternity is reflected in this blink. ( in Russian and Hindi )

Program 3 ( 57min) Screen X Experimenta STAGE Simon | USA | Modern Pantomime | Music | experimental | 12min | 2015 A gorgeously shot film about a man prepares for his final entry onto the grand stage, only to be confronted by his inner self.

Samon's Daugther | Japan | Modern Kabuki | Music | experimental | 45min | 2015 ( World Premiere ) A modern take on a historical Kabuki play teams with revenge and courage of a woman who was ahead of her times.

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