A Moveable-Screening “The West Lake Tour: The Vietnam Films of Vincent Moon”

Sun 05 Jul 2015, 8 pm
Various locations around Hanoi’s West Lake

From The Onion Cellar:

The Onion Cellar and Petites Planètes present:

A moveable-screening THE WEST LAKE TOUR: THE VIETNAM FILMS OF VINCENT MOON

Meeting point to be announced on this event page – list of locations only available on the day at the meeting point.

FREE ‘ENTRY’

A very special screening of the music films Vincent Moon shot in Vietnam in October/November 2013.

The screening will not take place at any single venue – rather, audience members (i.e you) – in 2 groups – will traverse with us through a number of locations around the West Lake (using whatever means of transport you see fit – special prize for the most creative), discovering paths less traveled, spots of relative obscurity where no film screening has ever materialised.

To celebrate all the help and support and all the beautiful collaborations that have gone into the shooting of these films, VINCENT MOON and THE ONION CELLAR are releasing a DVD including these Vietnam films, in a beautiful physical package hand-made with traditional Vietnamese materials.

30 of these DVDs will be available at the WEST LAKE event on 5 July (the pricing will be such that all proceeds will have been solely used to cover the cost of production).

This release also marks the first edition of GRAMOPHONE UNDER THE SEA, a new shape-shifting ‘thing’ from THE ONION CELLAR.

And now, a few words from the Master Filmmaker of the 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 synthetic 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, motors, 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. ]]

– Vincent Moon

Watch a short film about Hanoi by Vincent Moon here:
[youtube width=”700″ height=”393″]http://youtu.be/RiBE3aLrotw[/youtube]

Vincent Moon participated in the screening of his own films and delivered a 4-hour workshop on film and music in Hanoi in Oct 2013.