Asian Film Database
Narmada: A Valley Rises (1994) |
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| 87min. Documentary, Colour | |
| Language(s): | English |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Ali Kazimi (India) |
| Production Company: | Peripheral Visions Film & Video |
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| Awards: | Best Direction, Hot Docs 1995; Best Political 'documentary, Hot Docs, 1995; Special Mention for Best Film, Hot Docs 1995; Golden Gate Award, San Francisco International Film Festival, 1995; Gold Plaque, Chicago International Film Festival, 1995; Silver Conch Award, Bombay International Film Festival, 1996; International Critics' Award, Bombay International Film Festival, 1996; Environmental Justice Award, Third International Environmental Film Festival, South Africa, 1997; Best of Festival Award, Third International Environmental Film Festival, South Africa, 1997. |
| Setting: | India |
| Summary: | This film follows the struggles of the Save Narmada Movement along a nonviolent march to the state of Gujarat, where protesters demand an immediate government review of the Sarvar Sarvoda project and the cessation of work on the dam while the review takes place. (Ali Kazimi) |
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Nasoot (ناسوت (1997 |
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| 7min. Cinematic Poem, Black and White | |
| Language(s): | Sound |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Shanin Parhami (Iran) |
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| Setting: | Canada |
| Summary: | A poetic meditation on the death of three Iranian refugees who committed suicide in Ottawa. (shahinparhami.info) |
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Never a Foot too Far, Even (2012) |
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| 14min. Experimental, Colour | |
| Language(s): | English |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Daichi Saito (Japan) |
| Production Company: | Double Negative Collective |
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| Setting: | Canada |
| Summary: | Appropriating a brief fragment from a 35mm print of an old Kung Fu movie, Never a Foot Too Far, Even is an action movie without action. Presented in double-projection, with images from two separate rolls overlaid to form a single image, this film focuses on an obscure figure finding himself in a forest path, caught between perpetual motion and stasis. With original sound composition by Malcolm Goldstein. (lightcone.org) |
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The New Man (1992) |
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| 5min. Avant-garde, Colour | |
| Language(s): | English |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Ann Marie Fleming (Japan) |
| Production Company: | Sleepy Dog Films |
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| Setting: | Canada |
| Summary: | With Mike Hoolboom, this piece is a musical exploration of gender construction within the context of mainstream cinema. (Sleepy Dog Films) |
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New Reality (2000) |
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| 15min. Short, Colour | |
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| Director/Filmmaker: | David Chai (Australia) |
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| Summary: | Targeted by a gang of racist bullies, a young computer genius writes a program to change reality. New Reality was shot in 4.5 days entirely on DV for $550, and then graded in After Effects for the :film look". (Reel Asian) |
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New Shoes: An Interview in Exactly 5 minutes (1990) |
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| 5min. Documentary, Colour | |
| Language(s): | English |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Ann Marie Fleming (Japan) |
| Production Company: | Sleepy Dog Films |
| Trailer/Excerpt/Film: | FIlm |
| Awards: | Winner, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Michigan; Winner, Festival of Festivals |
| Setting: | Canada |
| Summary: | Made for Studio D's 5 Feminist minutes series, this film explores the themes of media voyeurism and violence through the story of Gaye, who is a survivor of a murder/suicide attempt by her ex-fiancé. (Sleepy Dog Films) |
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New View, New Eyes (1993) |
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| 50min. Documentary, Colour | |
| Language(s): | English |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Gina & Kaspar Jivan Saxena (Germany) |
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| Setting: | India, Canada |
| Summary: | A rare combination of personal diary and travelogue, New Views, New Eyes traces the filmmaker's efforts to carve out her own identity as she makes her first visit to her father's homeland of India. The journey is an uncomfortable one, as she struggles with 'western' preconceptions of India - poverty, beggars, disease - and realizes that she herself has come there as a stranger. (CFMDC) |
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No Contract (2011) |
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| 7min. Documentary, Colour | |
| Language(s): | English |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Randall Lloyd Okita (Canada) |
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| Setting: | Canada |
| Summary: | No Contract is a visceral video that combines elements of performance, sculptural cinema and documentary to explore themes of urgency, isolation and escape, as well as the notions of torment and renewal, desire and destruction. (IMDb) |
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Nobody Knows (20012) |
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| 3min. Short, Colour | |
| Language(s): | English |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Midi Onodera (Canada) |
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| Setting: | Canada |
| Summary: | Nobody Knows is a short poetic video that eloquently hints at a few inner thoughts of a solitary young woman. Shot in two toy camera formats, the Lomographic 35mm Supersampler and the Intel Play Digital Movie Creator, the film embraces alternative photography in both the celluloid and the digital realms. (midionodera.com) |
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Nocturne For the Fireflies (2009) |
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| 8min. Uncategorized | |
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| Director/Filmmaker: | Victoria Cheong (Canada) |
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| Summary: | in the dark of the night, a parade of little girls travel through the forest, bringing to life the magic of folk tales and children's lullabies. |
| Source: | Reel Asian |
Nocturno (2003) |
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| 6min. Uncategorized, Colour | |
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| Director/Filmmaker: | Naoko Sasaki (Canada) |
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| Summary: | A woman struggles with the emptiness of her life. Her emotional landscape is reflected in the images around her, creating something mysteriously sensual and deeply emotional. |
| Source: | Reel Asian |
Noise (2003) |
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| 7min. Uncategorized, Black and White | |
| Language(s): | English |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Kohei Usuda (Japan) |
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| Setting: | Canada |
| Summary: | Noise is a video comprised of the footage taken from surveillance monitors at subway stations (Vtape) |
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No Hop Sing, No Bruce Lee (1998) |
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| 32min. Short, Colour | |
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| Director/Filmmaker: | Janice Tanaka (USA) |
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| Summary: | The single dimensional representation of Asian men as "silent, sex-less, obedient houseboys" of mystical "martial arts masters" is challenged and unravelled through the experiences and voices of Asian-American men. (Reel Asian) |
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No Milk, But There's Always Coke (1998) |
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| 6min. Short, Colour | |
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| Director/Filmmaker: | Ernesto M. Foronda (USA) |
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| Summary: | In this tongue in cheek short film, a young man scolds his mother for participating in a beauty pageant. A 60's Coca Cola industrial film shot in the Philippines plays in the background, providing its own ironic commentary. (Reel Asian) |
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North South (2013) |
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| 5min. Experimental, Colour | |
| Language(s): | English |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Stephen Chen (Singapore) |
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| Trailer/Excerpt/Film: | Excerpt |
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| Setting: | Singapore |
| Summary: | Reworking recently rediscovered 15-year-old footage, NORTH SOUTH is a personal and political allegory of freedom and repression in Singapore. It draws an analogy between bipolar-altered reality to life in a prosperous fascist regime (the bridge it was filmed on was a then newly-constructed link between the state university and an army officer camp). (CFMDC) |
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Northern Choice |
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| Documentary | |
| Language(s): | English |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Azam Fouk Aladeh (Syria) |
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| Setting: | Canada |
| Summary: | A documentary that focuses on the transitions that a variety of new Canadians face after immigration. |
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Notebook on Lightning Bolts & Turntables (1999) |
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| 3min. Animation, Black and white | |
| Language(s): | Sound |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Chris Chong Chan Fui (Malaysian Borneo) |
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| Setting: | Canada |
| Summary: | This film is an animated adventure that moves through the city in search of safe havens, house music, romantic boys in record stores, distracting images from childhood, and finally into the place where we all want to be...all in the attempt to find a place of least-anxiety. Shot on Super 8 and blown up to 16mm, Notebook on Lightning Bolts & Turntables is an animation film that encompasses clay-mation, cell animation and live action (CFMDC). |
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