Asian Film Database

Venenzia (2010)
83min. Uncategorized, Colour
Language(s):	No Sound
Director/Filmmaker:	Paul Wong (Canada)
Production Company:	Paul Wong Projects
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Setting:	Italy
Summary:	With real and constructed reflected views we glide down the Grand Canal in silence. We enter a tighter waterway slipping past buildings on each side and go under foot bridges. The single view splits into multiple views, as we reach open water it returns to a single view. The journey is repeated in reverse and speeded up. Recorded in Venice, Italy. Venenzia was featured in ZOOOOOM 5.2 as part of Paul Wong's '5', the series of site-specific installations and events commissioned by the City of Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Public Art Program. (paulwongprojects.com)
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Venga! (1999)
3min. Documentary, Black and White
Language(s):	No Sound
Director/Filmmaker:	Nila Gupta
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Setting:	Canada
Summary:	Butterflies in the stomach, boxing and babes on the brain. (CFMDC)
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Video Ritual (1997)
12min. Short, Colour
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Director/Filmmaker:	Kim Yun-tae (Korea)
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Summary:	Who can forsee the moment of death? Breaking the "skin" of everyday reality, what is left for the living is the process or giving social meaning to the sudden end of life. Kim's video is a kind of memorial for this grieving. (Reel Asian)
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Vietnam, 1997 (2005)
8min. Documentary, Black and White
Language(s):	Vietnamese, English
Director/Filmmaker:	Khanhthuan Tran ( Vietnam)
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Awards:	Emerging Filmmaker Award , Reel Asian International Film Festival
Setting:	Canada
Summary:	You may find the difficulty of leaving, or you may find that you can return as Tran's family does to Vietnam, 18 years on, to celebrate his grandmother's 80th birthday and to reinscribe themselves into their remembered landscape (Vtape)
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The View in Passing (2010)
5min. Documentary, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Randall Lloyd Okita (Canada)
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Setting:	Canada
Summary:	Created using only a series of still photographs, The View In Passing is a breathtaking, personal postcard directly from the road. The film takes us across the gorgeous, ever-changing Canadian landscape, and into a reflective, single-driver road trip, as we remember what it is like to leave something behind while moving forward. (IMDb)
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VIGIL 5.4 (2010)
8min. Uncategorized, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Paul Wong (Canada)
Production Company:	Paul Wong (Canada)Projects
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Summary:	At the 2002 Talking Stick Festival in Vancouver, British Columbia, Paul Wong recorded Rebecca Belmore's performance VIGIL. The unedited document and excerpts have been used by Belmore in various ways. Eight years later, Wong edits his short version of this seminal performance and recording. (paulwongprojects.com)
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Ville-quelle ville? (1984)
4min. Avant-Garde
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Midi Onodera (Canada)
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Setting:	Canada
Summary:	While Onodera's earlier work explored the possibility of imaging women's subjective relationship to a world constructed through male-dominated codes of representation, Ville? Quelle Ville? moves into the genre of the film-poem, utilizing a voice-over to emphasize the disjunction of the documentary image and the subjective impressions which constitute a woman's internal reality. (femfilm.ca)
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Violent (1998)
2min. Fantasy, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Atif Y. Siddiqi (Pakistan)
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Summary:	Violent is a dream like "gun in cheek" look at perverse sexual fantasies. Is it soft porn> Or is it a satirical comment on sexually explicit imagery and violence in the media and our lifetime? (Vtape)
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Vision From the Edge: Breyten Breytenbach Painting the Lines (1998)
56min. Uncategorized, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Mary Stephen (Canada and South Africa)
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Summary:	During the time and space of a retrospective of his paintings where he creates 6 scrolls illustrating his poems, Breyten Breytenbach, writer/artist/anti-Apartheid activist who spent 7 and a half years in prison, reflects on poetry, zen philosophy, South Africa, exile....
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Visual Poetry (2008)
Uncategorized, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Cuong Ngo (Vietnam)
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Summary:	An early work of Romanticism through video arts and visual poetry. Visual Poetry, directed by Cuong Ngo, was filmed while he was film student at York University, with the music courtesy by Michael Buble. (Cuong Ngo)
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Voice of Our Own (1989)
25min. Documentary, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Ali Kazimi and Premika Ratnam (India)
Production Company:	Shadowcatcher Productions Inc.
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Setting:	Canada
Summary:	A record of the formation of a national organization for Canadian immigrant and visible minority women that demonstrates how disadvantaged groups can empower themselves politically. (York University)
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Vol. 996 - a collection of short works (1996)
30min. Uncategorized
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Jinhan Ko
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Setting:	Canada
Summary:	See http://www.vtape.org/video?vi=3468
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