PREVIEW
Raiders of the archives
Festival highlights relationship between moving images and interpretation of history
- Published: 27/01/2012 at 02:59 AM
- Newspaper section: Life
A rich trove of archival treasures, footage collages, rare moving image intrigues and post-post-avant-gardism experiments is ready for an onslaught beginning tomorrow at the 6th Bangkok Experimental Film Festival (BEFF 6). Under the theme "Raiding the Archives", BEFF 6 continues the spirit (bordering on cinematic spiritualism) of experimental cinema as a form of cultural and artistic investigation, this time with the emphasis on the relationship between moving images and our perception and interpretation of history.
Hard Rails Across a Gentle River , from a group of Vietnamese film-makers.
The main venue is at Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, with screenings also taking place at Goethe Institute and Jim Thompson House. Talks, seminars and Q&A sessions accompany many shows, and brilliant minds on cinema and history will expound their thoughts on the significance and aracana of film, archives, montage and their implications for the larger social context.
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