HCMC – Screening of The Vietnam Films by Vincent Moon

Tue 23 Jun 2015, 8 pm
Charlot Hall, 2nd floor
Hoa Sen University

From Vanity Production Vietnam and The Onion Cellar:

ASEAN Music Festival 2015 also features the debut of sounds by southeast (sxse) – The Onion Cellar & Vanity Vietnam’s co-rated series of southeast asian music documentaries. Consisting of 3 feature films and a special showcase of shorts, sxse’s first installment celebrates musicians operating on the fringe of society: Yangon’s underground punk-rockers (in Yangon Calling), the last haranistas of the Philippines (Harana), practitioners of traditional Thai music (Y/our Music), and Vietnamese left-field pathfinders (the Vietnam films of Vincent Moon).

“Vietnam was a mystery. Known in the foreigner’s eyes for other aspects than music forms, my first knowledge of it was through some rare tribal recordings of the northern and central mountains, and not much more than that. I didn’t expect to encounter trance rituals, highly syncretic religions, experimental noise-music and funeral music at every corner, all this over one month travel from south to north. After spending some time in the Mekong Delta and in near-by Tay Ninh for a Cao Dai ceremony, we went north – to the northern mountains around Ha Giang, amongst tribes trying to maintaining an old way of celebrating their land, while in the same time opening up for very modern tourism. Back in Hanoi, the most fascinating megalopolis on this side of the world, we spent a few weeks between new electronic music, ancient trance rituals, funeral ceremonies… All this through the noise of the crowd, motos, screens and speakers. The constant sound of the globalized civilization. Vietnam kept a mystery, all through this travel. Those 6 films are not trying to uncover it by any means – more to unfold them in a new direction, like drawing hypothesis on the meaning of hand movements.”

Screening schedule

22.6 harana – philippines
23.6 the vietnam films of vincent moon – vietnam (obviously)
24.6 yangon calling – myanmar
25.6 y/our music – thailand

Entry by donation (on the door)

Watch a short film about Hanoi by Vincent Moon here:
http://youtu.be/RiBE3aLrotw