Open Studio: “When I Stop by the Cape” by Truong Que Chi

Open studio: 28 Oct – 04 Nov 2017, 3 – 7 pm (Wed to Sun)
Screening & talk with filmmaker Đỗ Văn Hoàng: Thu 02 Nov 2017, 5.30 pm
Nha San Collective

From Nha San Collective:

Nha san Collective would like to invite you to the open studio of artist Truong Que Chi, “WHEN I STOP BY THE CAPE”, curated by Chau Hoang.

“18 times per minute
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A narrative departs from the un-arrive-able”

Screening & talk with filmmaker Đỗ Văn Hoàng

Thursday 02 Nov 2017. 5.30 pm

17h30: Film #1 (2003, 84m)
In a cinema theater, there is a hotel. In the hotel, there is a room. In the room, there is a couple. They come to seperate. The receptionist falls asleep while watching a martial arts movie.

19h00: Talk (40m)

19h45: Film #2 (2011, 79m)
Certain events take place in our lives, not because of any particular reasons but by pure chance. We pick out some points in time to form an arbitrary series of intentions, string them together and deem such thing the cause for what has transpired.

* This series of film is selected by Đỗ Văn Hoàng for the event.

Artist Trương Quế Chi:

An M.A. graduate of Film Studies from the University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle, Truong Que Chi is active in both the visual art and cinema scene as a filmmaker, an artist and a curator. Her practice examines the spectacle of everyday violence in Vietnam and delves into the complex relationship between archive, memory and imagination. Her works have been featured at various local and international film festivals, exhibitions, and symposiums, including Cosmopolis #1, Centre Pompidou, France (2017); Asian Film Focus: Time Machine, Objectifs–Centre for Photography and Film, Singapore (2017); Skylines with Flying People 3, Nhà Sàn Collective, Vietnam (2015-2017); South by Southeast. A Further Surface, Times Museum, China (2016); Oberhausen International Film Festival, Germany (2015); Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, Gaité Lyrique, Paris, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (2015); and Torino Film Festival, Italy (2014). Trương Quế Chi is currently a member of Nhà Sàn Collective’s curator board since 2015 and a film lecturer at the Hanoi University of Theatre and Cinema.

Curator Châu Hoàng:

After Graduating from Lasalle college of the arts in Singapore, Chau Hoang started working in the local artistic community since 2013 as an assistant curator for Nha San Collective, a longest-running art space in Vietnam. She has assisted and coordinated a broad range of projects including Skylines with Flying People 3, Queer Forever!, In:Act – Nipaf… In 2017, Chau started working with Zero Station as a curatorial assistant and coordinator for their Asian In/VISIBLE Station Project project, funded by the Japan Foundation-Asia Center.

Filmmaker Đỗ Văn Hoàng

Đỗ Văn Hoàng (1987) graduated from the University of Theatre and Cinema at Hanoi. Some of his works include: Underneath it all (documentary, 17m), At water’s Edge (documentary, 17m), A film on sofa (short film, 17m), A silent shout (short film, 20m), False Brillante (short film, 22m), Drowning dew (collaboration work with Art Labor Collective, co-director with Trương Quế Chi). His works have been shown at Hanoi Docfest, Yamagata Film Festival, Centre Pompidou, Times Museum.

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Nhà Sàn COLLECTIVE is not a museum, a gallery or an international culture institute where completed work are presented by established artists. Just like Nhà Sàn Studio before, it is a working studio to nurture where artists can create, collaborate, be given advice, critiques, and have chances to meet with international artists, curators. Works that are presented at open studio every month could be finished or not, but the process of developing idea and working to improve the quality of the art work for local artists is what Nhà Sàn COLLECTIVE focuses on.

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