HCMC – Film Screening “Yangon Calling”

Wed 24 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).

YANGON CALLING (61 min/Myanmar/Germany/2013)

Directed by Alexander Dluzak and Carsten Piefke

[vimeo width=”700″ height=”393″]https://vimeo.com/54290744[/vimeo]

In the 90’s, sailors brought the first punk rock cassettes into Myanmar. Since then a scene with several hundred followers has emerged in Yangon.

The film YANGON CALLING introduces the main protagonists of the punk rock scene and shows their life in Myanmar’s underground. During six weeks, the filmmakers Alexander Dluzak and Carsten Piefke filmed secretly and without authorization in Yangon, using small cameras. They accompanied the punks to their homes and met their friends and families. They went along with them to work in the tailor shop and tattoo studio, to rehearsal rooms and secret illegal concerts. They spoke with punks who had sat in jail during the military dictatorship and saw them fight their frustration with heroin.

YANGON CALLING is a film about life in an authoritarian state, about personal tragedy and the struggle for freedom in a country where punk is still true rebellion.

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)