SCAF – Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation

Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation in
partnership with Queensland Art Gallery presents

The view from elsewhere

an exhibition of film, video and installation work from East Asia to the Middle East

One hundred films, three months, free screenings!

Special screening hours:
Wednesday and Thursday 6-9 pm
Saturday matinee 2-5 pm

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SCREENING PROGRAMME: MARCH – APRIL 2009

As space is limited, we would advise that you book early to avoid disappointment.
To make a booking, contact SCAF on (02) 9331 1112 or info@sherman-scaf.org.au
Please check Sherman-scaf.org.au for screening updates.
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SCREENING SCHEDULE March – April

Special screenings held on Wednesday’s and Thursday’s 6-9pm and Saturday’s 2-5pm.
Please arrive at least 20 minutes prior to screening times.

Saturday 21 March
Screening commences at 2:30 pm
Nina Fischer & Maroan El Sani, Spelling Dystopia, 2009 (produced in Japan/Germany)
Sasithorn Ariyavicha, My First Film, 1991; Drifter, 1993 (produced in Thailand/US)
Interval, screening recommences at 3:30pm
Sasithorn Ariyavicha, Birth of the Seanema, 2004 (produced in Thailand/US)
Ariyavicha’s works invite a meditative, day-dream like space for images to be conjured up through the act of looking.

Wednesday 25
Screening launch
Refreshments served at 6:00pm, screening commences at 6:30pm
Tsuki Inoue, Daichi o Tataku Onna (The Woman Who Is Beating the Earth), 2007 (produced in Japan)
A woman who suffers violence and abuse from her boyfriend expresses her frustration by using the utensils in the butcher shop to pound out a rhythm.
Interval, screening recommences at 7:10pm
Khavn, Squatterpunk (Iskwaterpangk) 2007 (produced in the Philippines)
Squatterpunk shows the youth of urban communities in Manila living inside a culture of punk. Shot entirely in one day and accompanied by an unrelenting punk-rock sound track: humanity and hope shines through extreme poverty.

Thursday 26 March
Screening commences at 6:15pm
Yoo Soon-Mi, ISAHN, 2004; Ssitkin; Talking to the Dead, 2004 and Dangerous Supplement, 2006 (produced in US/Korea)
Interval, screening recommences at 7:45pm
Ayisha Abraham, You are Here, 2008; One Way, 2007 and Straight 8, 2005 (produced in India)
Abraham’s painterly films feature multiple aspects of Indian modernity as she retrieves and transfers found 16 mm and 8 mm film footage to create digital experimental essays.
Mona Hatoum, Measures of Distance, 1988 (produced in Lebanon/Canada)
In 1975, when Hatoum was on a short trip to London, war broke out in Lebanon and she was unable to
return home. The work explores notions of exile as well as other forms of ‘proximity’ and ‘distance’.

Saturday 28 March
Screening commences at 2:30pm
Tsuki Inoue, Daichi o Tataku Onna (The Woman Who Is Beating the Earth), 2007 (produced in Japan)
Interval, screening recommences at 3:10pm
Jocelyne Saab, La Dame de Saigon (Sayidat Saigon), 1997 (produced in Vietnam/France)
Important artist and film maker Saab’s La Dame de Saigon follows Dr Duong Duinh Hoa, who left her privileged background to join the nationalistic Vietcong. Now she dedicates her whole life to humanitarian efforts working tirelessly to care for the destitute in regional Vietnam.

Wednesday 1 April
Screening commences at 6:30pm
Tsuki Inoue, Daichi o Tataku Onna (The Woman Who Is Beating the Earth), 2007 (produced in Japan)
Interval, screening recommences at 7:10pm
Jocelyne Saab, La Dame de Saigon (Sayidat Saigon), 1997 (produced in Vietnam/France)

Thursday 2 April
Refreshments served at 6:30pm, screening commences at 7:00pm
Abbas Kiarostami, Five Long Takes Dedicated to Yasujiro Ozu, 2004 (produced in France/Iran/Japan)
Kiarostami’s hypnotic Five was made only 3 years after his first digital film. Its careful construction belies the apparent simplicity of its depiction, paying tribute to the great Japanese film maker in 5 takes.

Saturday 4 April
Screening commences at 2:15pm
Yoo Soon-Mi, ISAHN, 2004; Ssitkin; Talking to the Dead, 2004 and Dangerous Supplement, 2006 (produced in US/Korea)
Much of Yoo’s footage is found and retrieved and then re-worked and re-presented. ISAHN was created by filming through the viewing hole of stereoscopic devices produced in South Korea. In Dangerous
Supplement Yoo retrieves Korean War archival footage found at the US National Archives.
Interval, screening recommences at 3:45pm
Ayisha Abraham, You Are Here, 2008; One Way, 2007 and Straight 8, 2005 (produced in India)
Mona Hatoum, Measures of Distance, 1988 (produced in Lebanon/Canada.

Wednesday 8 April
Screening commences at 6:30pm
Yoo Soon-Mi, ISAHN, 2004; Ssitkin; Talking to the Dead, 2004 and Dangerous Supplement, 2006 (produced in US/Korea)
Interval, screening recommences at 8:00pm
Ayisha Abraham, You Are Here, 2008; One Way, 2007 and Straight 8, 2005 (produced in India)
Mona Hatoum, Measures of Distance, 1988 (produced in Lebanon/Canada)

Thursday 9 April
Refreshments served at 6:00pm, screening commences at 6:30pm
Tsuki Inoue, Daichi o Tataku Onna (The Woman Who Is Beating the Earth), 2007 (produced in Japan)
Jocelyne Saab, La Dame de Saigon (Sayidat Saigon), 1997 (produced in Vietnam/France)

Wednesday 15 April
Screening commences at 6:30pm
Almagul Menlibayeva, Jihad, 2004; I Never Forget This, 2005 and Headcharge, 2007 (produced in Kazakhstan)
Interval, screening recommences at 7:20pm
Keren Cytter, New Age, 2007 (produced in The Netherlands)

Thursday 16 April
Refreshments served at 6:00pm, screening commences at 6:30pm
Akjoltoy Bekbolotov, Kam Sanabanyz (Everything is OK), 2007 (produced in Kyrgyzstan)
Amos Gitaï, House (Bait), 1980 (produced in Israel)
The first in a trilogy that traces the history of a house in West Jerusalem over twenty years from 1980 and the families that have lived in it during this turbulent period. Part 2, A House in Jerusalem, 1998 will screen on Wednesday 13 May, and Part 3, News From Home / News From House, 2005 will screen on Thursday 11 June.

Saturday 18 April
Screening commences at 2:30pm
Sutthirat Supaparinya, Huong Vi Pho (Taste of Noodles), 2006 (produced in Thailand/Vietnam)
Gloriously quirky documentary filmed across regions in Thailand and Vietnam, Taste of Noodles reveals the complexity and particularity of noodle culture.
Gulsun Karamustafa, Unawarded Performances, 2005 and Stairway, 2001 (produced in Turkey)

Wednesday 22 April
Screening commences at 6:30pm
Akjoltoy Bekbolotov, Kam Sanabanyz (Everything is OK), 2007 (produced in Kyrgyzstan)
Interval, screening recommences at 7:00pm
Brillante Mendoza, Slingshot (Tirador), 2007 (produced in the Philippines)
Slingshot is set in the slums of Manila, where Mendoza’s camera moves through the mazelike streets, following characters in settings where theft and addiction are part of daily life.  From the opening scene, the camera negotiates its way around drug users, drunks and sex.

Thursday 23 April
Refreshments served at 6:00pm, screening commences at 6:30pm
Almagul Menlibayeva, Jihad, 2004; I Never Forget This, 2005 and Headcharge, 2007 (produced in Kazakhstan)
Menliyabayeva’s performance videos employ an aesthetic called Romantic Punk Sharmanism. The nude female bodies dancing together in the landscape suggest that contact with the earth enables a form of catharsis.
Keren Cytter, New Age, 2007 (Produced in The Netherlands)

Thursday 30 April
Refreshments served at 6:00pm, screening commences at 6:30pm
Hu Jie, Remote Mountain, 1996 and Though I am Gone, 2006 (produced in China)
Hu has referred to himself as ‘a film labourer’. In June 1995 he spent two months filming the coal miners of Quilian Mountain in Qinghai Provence (Northwest China). Remote Mountain reveals the extreme hardship endured by peasants digging coal in crude town-owned mines. Though I am Gone tells the story of scholar Wang Jing Yao’s campaign to record the facts about his wife Bian Zhongyun’s death at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution in China in 1966. This film was banned in China.

Gülsün Karamustafa, Stairway 1, 2001