“Picturing the Global Megacity” Film Screening
F 4/11, 3:30-5:30 pm., Communications 120
On Friday, April 11, the Visual Praxis Collective will be presenting Khavn De La Cruz’s 2006 film Squatterpunk, which just arrived at the UW Media Center from the Philippines. Please join us for the screening, to be introduced by Kiko Benitez (Assistant Professor, Comparative Literature), and a discussion following the film.
This screening is part of the VPC’s “Picturing the Global Megacity” spring quarter project and serves as preparation for a talk and a workshop later in the quarter (May 27 & 28) by Prof. Jonathan Beller (Associate Professor, English and Humanities and Critical and Visual Studies, Pratt Institute) based on his book, Acquiring Eyes: Philippine Visuality, Nationalist Struggle and The World Media-System, and new research on digital filmmakers in the Philippines.
Squatterpunk, Khavn De La Cruz (2006)
Fresh from winning the grand jury prize at the recently concluded Cinemanila International Film festival, Squatterpunk tackles the life of youth in urban poor communities living the punk lifestyle. The film is set in the slums of Manila where law enforcement is rare. The camera follows the lives of the youth as they scavenge the garbage beach for a living while still managing to play around. Images of riot and poverty are set against the background of a loud musical score that makes the film wild, pulsating and certainly punk. Yet despite the exploitative connotations of its title, Squatterpunk casts a tenderly poetic eye at the squalor of Philippine society. http://www.kamiasroad.com/khavn/squatterpunks.htm
~Sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities and the Institute for Transnational Studies.~
On Friday, April 11, the Visual Praxis Collective will be presenting Khavn De La Cruz’s 2006 film Squatterpunk, which just arrived at the UW Media Center from the Philippines. Please join us for the screening, to be introduced by Kiko Benitez (Assistant Professor, Comparative Literature), and a discussion following the film.
This screening is part of the VPC’s “Picturing the Global Megacity” spring quarter project and serves as preparation for a talk and a workshop later in the quarter (May 27 & 28) by Prof. Jonathan Beller (Associate Professor, English and Humanities and Critical and Visual Studies, Pratt Institute) based on his book, Acquiring Eyes: Philippine Visuality, Nationalist Struggle and The World Media-System, and new research on digital filmmakers in the Philippines.
Squatterpunk, Khavn De La Cruz (2006)
Fresh from winning the grand jury prize at the recently concluded Cinemanila International Film festival, Squatterpunk tackles the life of youth in urban poor communities living the punk lifestyle. The film is set in the slums of Manila where law enforcement is rare. The camera follows the lives of the youth as they scavenge the garbage beach for a living while still managing to play around. Images of riot and poverty are set against the background of a loud musical score that makes the film wild, pulsating and certainly punk. Yet despite the exploitative connotations of its title, Squatterpunk casts a tenderly poetic eye at the squalor of Philippine society. http://www.kamiasroad.com/khavn/squatterpunks.htm
~Sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities and the Institute for Transnational Studies.~
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