Súp Video Soup Vol. 2: Video_InComplete

25 – 27 May 2017
DOCLAB & Six Space (details below)

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Súp Video Soup, Vol. 2:

Contained in this series No. 2 of Soup Video Soup, but perhaps also representative of all Soup videos in general, is the poetics in the the incompleteness of the experimental videos.

What has been going on in the world of video since 2014 when we first launched Soup Video Soup with Vol. 1? Especially within our community around Hanoi Doclab? The scene seems to be a bit quiet perhaps, but if you look harder, you’ll find the little streams running under the ground, as you’ll see this time with Vol. 2.

Vol. 1 focused performance-based video works. This Vol. 2 includes 3 days showing the current works and experiments by video makers in Hanoi and beyond, with a program showing works from Denmark. In particularly, for the first day, we’re launching a new program entitled “Young Curators’ Programs” with two programs curated by Ngo Thanh and Do Tuong Linh. With this, we hope to encourage the curation and critique in the area of the moving image practice in Vietnam.

The program consists of:

**Day 1: “Young Curators’ Programs”
25.5.2017
Venue: Six Space, 94B Tran Hung Dao, 6th floor

6PM: “A Journey of the Image” (curated by Ngô Thanh)

This selection of films made over the course of a century, from different countries, by known and unknown filmmakers, offers us a chance to experience both a diversity and the unified characters of avant-garde and experimental films. What are meanings and values of the experimental film if viewed from the perspective of cinema’s history? Is it true that the avant-garde and experimental films are getting out of breath as they fail to catch up with the commercialization of technology and are getting sucked up into “the culture of cinema”?

8PM: “Of Time and Space” (curated by Đỗ Tường Linh)

Before the invention of clocks, cameras and technology, human tracked time through natural transformation. Modern appliances have allowed us the flexibility to freeze or fast-forward spaces and time through means of recordance – one method that has opened up to creative analysis… Within the process of documentation, reassessment, and invention, we realized that perception of time and space is often fluid instead of fixed, subjective instead of objective – some of which even belongs solely to the realm of imagination.

These artists of this show come together despite their origin or path for the mutual desire to suspend and deconstruct time and space that they occupy . They explore a contemporary world of mixed realities: the real and virtual, fiction and non-fiction, past and future, ephemerality and eternity, lightness and heaviness, remembrance and oblivion… Chacun son Cinéma (To each his own cinema), each artist exposes these contrasting juxtaposition, in order to open up a contemporary dialogue for an ancient theme that has spanned through-out human history: space and time.

Creative people: Quỳnh Đông & Francisco Sierra (Zurich), Thẩm Tân – Shen Xin (London), Ngọc Nâu (Hà Nội), Joseph Pomp (New York), Jeewon Yoon – 윤지원 (Seoul), Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi (Vienna), Hoàng Đạo Phương Thảo (Columbus), Nguyễn Thanh Thúy (New York)

**Day 2: Works from Denmark
6PM, 26.5.2017
Venue: Hanoi Doclab, 56-58 Nguyen Thai Hoc

Jorgen Leth: The Perfect Human / Andy Warhol Eating a Hamburger / Jorgen Leth speaking about the work

Jørgen Leth (born 1937) is a Danish poet and film director who is considered a leading figure in experimental documentary film making. Most notable are his epic documentary A Sunday in Hell (1977) and his surrealistic short film The Perfect Human (1967).

Gitte Villesen: A Silent Movie (2007) / Gido (2014) / “I had no other choice than to jump from one pile to the other, as there was nothing in between” (2012)

Born in 1965 in Ansager, Denmark, Gitte Villesen lives and works in Copenhagen and Berlin. Villesen shoots most of her videos close to home, in Ansager or Copenhagen. Using unpretentious imagery, her works evoke the everyday lives of various acquaintances, which have become her primary subjects. Villesen’s documentary-style practice questions the limits of this genre. Her works set the stage for various social interactions to occur both on camera and behind the scenes. Villesen perverts documentary filmmaking’s basic principles by portraying it as a form of social cooperation and confrontation. She strategically positions herself as a ‘participant observer’ who shapes and produces the reality that she records by relying on an interactive process, in other words, a game of social representation, activated by the camera. Through Villesen’s work, this activity is framed as a specific form of participation embedded in the reality that it appears to document. (mutualart.com)

Jesper Just: No Man is An Island Hòn đảo Không người (2002) ; Hạnh phúc và Thiên đường Bliss and Heaven (2005) ; A Vicious Undertow (2007) ; Some Draughty Window (2007) ; Lãng trí lãng mạn
(2008) ; Llano (2009) ; Sirens of Chrome (2010) ; This Nameless Spectacle (2011)

Jesper Just (born 1974 in Copenhagen, Denmark) is a Danish artist, and living and working in Copenhagen and New York, NY. From 1997 to 2003 he studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. Just works exclusively in film, shooting on a variety of film stock, including 8 mm, 16 mm and 35 mm. Works dating from 2003 and before were recorded in digital video. All later works are shot on film and then transferred to HD video. The resulting images are dense and atmospheric. Their prominent soundtracks are conceived specifically for each film in cooperation with different musicians.

**Day 3: A day of experimental video & media by Vietnamese artists
27.05, 6.30 pm – 9.30 pm
Venue: Six Space, 94B Tran Hung Dao, 6th floor

Tạ Minh Đức / Phạm Thu Hằng / Nhã Thuyên / Phạm Thanh Tâm / Dương Nguyễn / Thịnh Nguyễn / Nguyễn Hải Yến / Đức Đoàn /Trịnh Hải / Bella Trần / Kim Đức / Trương Minh Quý / Phương Linh / Nguyễn Hoàng Giang / Khổng Việt Bách / Nguyễn Xuân Hoàng Minh / Nguyễn Trinh Thi / Lê Xuân Tiến / Phạm thị Hảo / Haiku series / and more …

Súp Video Soup Vol. 2, as well as the workshops on on animation art and personal film conducted in 2015 at Doclab under the project “Hanoi ImageLab”, are sponsored by The Denmark-Vietnam Cultural Development and Exchange Fund (CDEF).

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Information on Súp Video Soup Vol. 1:
Súp Video Soup, Vol. 1: Performance Video
Súp Video Soup Presents Artist in Focus: Hoang Minh Duc
Two Special Screenings of Súp Video Soup Vol. 1