Tanjung Aru Pictures

PROJECTS

H E A V E N H E L L

Photo by Kasagi Yasuyuki

audio visual installation
chris chong chan fui + yasuhiro morinaga
Commissioned by NPO Koganecho Area Management Center

Exhibitions
: 2009 Intl Festival of Arts & Media Yokohama (CREAM), 31 Oct - 29 Nov, 2009, Japan [World Premiere]
: 2010 Future Projections (Toronto Int'l Film Festival), Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Aug 2010, Canada

"HEAVENHELL references the slum scene from A. Kurosawa's film High & Low (1963) as an act to reclaim the history of an infamous brothel street that had always been untouchable ... even to Kurosawa."- cccf + ym

Photo by Danny Lim

"One of the most beautiful discoveries of this year's Cannes . . . A filmmaker is born."
- Les Inrockuptibles, Paris

KARAOKE
MALAYSIA 2009, 35MM, drama – 76:00min, Dolby SRD, 1:1.85, Malay with English subtitles
A Tanjung Aru Pictures production
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The home has changed. The palm oil trees have grown in endless symmetry. The landscape rusts and the nostalgia turns. KARAOKE is a homecoming.

Festivals / Exhibitions
: 2009 Cannes' Directors' Fortnight, France [World premiere]
: 2009 Toronto Int'l Film Festival, Canada [VISIONS]
: 2009 Calgary Int'l Film Festival, Canada [MAVERICKS] [WINNER Best film]
: 2009 Vancouver Int'l Film Festival, Canada [Dragons & Tigers competition]
: 2009 London Int'l Film Festival, U.K.
: 2009 Pusan Int'l Film Festival, South Korea
: 2009 Viennale Int'l Film Festival, Austria
: 2009 Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival, Taiwan
: 2010 CENTRE POMPIDOU, Paris, France
: 2010 Hong Kong Int'l Film Festival, Hong Kong, [Asian Film Awards WINNER-Best Editor Lee Chatametikool]

BLOCK B
MALAYSIA / CANADA, 2008, 35MM, 1.85:1, Dolby digital surround, experimental – 20:00min, Tamil with English subtitles
A building becomes a living painting. The concrete homes and contradicting soundscapes frame the lives of an expatriate community.
: Viennale Int'l Film Festival, Austria 2009
: Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Germany 2009
: Hong Kong Int'l Film Festival, Hong Kong 2009 [The Avant Garde]
: Berlin Int'l Film Festival, Germany 2009 [Forum Expanded]
: Int'l Film Festival Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 2009 [Tiger Competition]
: Voted 2008 Canada's Top Ten Short Films of the year (www.topten.ca)
: Mar Del Plata Int'l Film Festival, Argentina, 2008 [WINNER-Best Int'l Short Film prize]
: Toronto Int'l Film Festival, Canada, 2008 [WINNER-Best Canadian Short Film prize]
: 2010 CENTRE POMPIDOU, Paris, France
: Smithsonian Institutes' HIRSHHORN MUSEUM, Washington D.C., USA, Apr-Aug 2010

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KOLAM (POOL )
INDONESIA, 2007, DV, documentary – 12:30min, Indonesian with English subtitles
In post-tsunami Indonesia, a village pool bearing the name USAID awaits completion. Meanwhile, the village children learn to swim in it.
: Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Germany 2009
: San Francisco Int’l Film Festival, USA, 2008
: Voted 2007 Canada's Top Ten Short Films of the year
: Clermont-Ferrand Int’l Short Film Festival, France, 2008 [Int’l Competition]
: Toronto Int’l Film Festival, Canada, 2007 [WINNER, Best Canadian Short Film prize]
: Hamburg Int'l Short Film Festival, Germany, 2007 [Int’l Competition]
: Jakarta Int’l Film Festival, Indonesia, 2007

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DI ANTARA CAHAYA (IN BETWEEN LIGHT )
INDONESIA, completion early 2008, DV, documentary – 25:00MIN, Indonesian with English subtitles
Support of the Ford Foundation (Asian Scholarship Foundation)
A documentary that aims to frame experimental film/video in post-1998 Reformation Indonesia.

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TUESDAY BE MY FRIEND
MALAYSIA, 2006, DV, Narrative – 9:00 MIN, Mandarin with English subtitles
When a young Chinese Malaysian girl is lost for friends who understands, she finds a group that's more to her liking. A rock band with 'edge'?!
: MIXNY Experimental Film & Video Festival, 2009
: Hong Kong Independent Film & Video Festival, 2008
: Tampere Int’l Film Festival, Finland, 2007 [Int’l Competition]
: Jakarta Int’l Slingshort Fest, Indonesia, 2006 [WINNER, Best Fiction Film prize]
: Goethe Institute Film Competition, Malaysia, 2006 [WINNER, Best Film prize]
: Images Festival, Toronto, Canada, 2006

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LET ME START BY SAYING
CANADA 2001, 16mm, B/W experimental – 4:00 MIN, German + English duplicated dialogue
: Anthology Film Archives, USA 2007
: MIX NYC, New York City, USA, 2002
: IMAGES Festival of Indpt Film+Video, Canada, 2001 [WINNER, Best Emerging Filmmaker prize]

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MUSIC MIGHT HAVE DECEIVED US
CANADA, 2000, 16mm, B/W experimental, soundscape – 6:30 MIN
: Le Fresnoy Studio National des Arts Contemporains, France 2002
: Ponrepo Cinema, Prague, Czechoslovakia 2002
: Anthology Film Archives, New York City, USA 2007
: Chicago’s School of Art Institute, USA 2000
… over 10 international festivals

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NOTEBOOK ON LIGHTNING BOLTS & TURNTABLES
CANADA, 2000, 16mm B/W Experimental Animation, soundscape – 4:30 MIN
: Blinding Light Cinema, Canada, 2002
: Anti-Matter Film Festival, Canada 2001

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MINUS
CANADA, 2000, 16mm B/W Experimental, soundscape - 3:20 MIN
: IFFR Int’l Film Festival Rotterdam, Netherlands, 2008
: Barcelona Int’l Film Festival, Spain 2000
: Le Fresnoy Studio National des Arts Contemporains, France 2002
: Oslo Film & Video Festival, Norway 2001
: Freunde Der Deutschen Kinemathek E.V., Germany2001
: Los Angeles Film Festival, USA2001
… over 20 international festivals

CRASH SKID LOVE
CANADA 1998, SUPER 8 Animation – 3:30 MIN, English
: Cornell University, Film Pgm, USA 2000
: San Francisco Int’l Film Festival, USA 1999
: Seattle Film Festival, USA 1999
: The NEW Festival NYC, USA 1999
… over 20 international festivals

Tanjung Aru Pictures

Monday, August 18, 2008