CREA and The South and Southeast Asia Resource Centre on Sexuality
INVITE YOU TO A SELECTION FROM
Films of Desire: Sexuality and the Cinematic Imagination
January 6-7, 2008
Stein Auditorium, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
Films of Desire: Sexuality and the Cinematic Imagination, focuses on
Southeast Asian Cinema and will feature screenings of features, short
films, documentaries, and experimental films that engage with ideas of
sexuality in South and Southeast Asia. It is the travelling off-shoot
of a larger event held in Neemrana, near Delhi, in March 2007.
The Venue Stein Auditorium, India Habitat Centre
Timings 6.30-9.30 pm
The Film Schedule:
06 January 2008
SEA IN THE BLOOD, Richard Fung, 26 minutes / English / 2000 / Canada.
LOCUST, Victric Thng, 4 minutes/ Cantonese with English subtitles/2003/
Singapore
CUT, Royston Tan, 12 minutes/ Singaporean English/ 2004/ Singapore
LOVE FOR SHARE, Nia Dinata, 120 minutes/ Bahasa Indonesia with English
subtitles/ 2006/ Indonesia.
07 January 2008
Film Screening
THE LAST FULL SHOW, Mark V. Reyes, 18 minutes/ Tagalog with English
subtitles /2004/The Phillipines
THE MATCHMAKER, Cinzia Puspita Rini, 10 minutes/ Indonesian with
English subtitles /2006/Indonesia
BEAUTIFUL BOXER, Ekachai Uekrongtham, 118 minutes / Thai with English
subtitles/ 2003/ Thailand
CUT, Royston Tan, 12 minutes/ Singaporean English/ 2004/ Singapore
The Organizers
· Creating Resources for Empowerment in Action (CREA)
( www.creaworld.org) is a women's human rights organization based in
New Delhi.
· The South and Southeast Asia Resource Centre on Sexuality
( www.asiasrc.org) enhances scholarship on sexuality in the region and
is based at TARSHI in New Delhi.
About the Films:
SEA IN THE BLOOD, Richard Fung, 26 minutes/ English/ 2000/ Canada.
An intensely moving personal essay about living in the shadow of
illness, Sea in the Blood explores two of Fung's closest relationships
— with his late sister Nan, who died in 1977 of a rare blood disorder
called thalassemia (which literally means 'sea in the blood'), and
with his lifelong lover, Tim, who has been living with HIV since 1980
LOCUST, Victric Thng, 4 minutes/ Cantonese with English subtitles/
2003/ Singapore
A momentary encounter evokes both a sense of fondness and bitterness
of the heart. Moving and lyrical, the film's backdrop of Hong Kong
heightens the emotive narration
CUT, Royston Tan, 12 minutes/ Singaporean English/ 2004/ Singapore
Royston Tan's Cut comes almost a year after his feature film 15 which
was labeled by Singapore authorities 'threat to national security' and
released locally with 27 cuts. In true Singaporean fashion, Cut
responds to the issue of censorship with a heady blend of tongue-in-
cheek humour and music.
LOVE FOR SHARE, Nia Dinata, 120 minutes/ Bahasa Indonesia with
English subtitles/ 2006/ Indonesia.
The film is an intriguing portrait of polygamous lifestyles in
contemporary Jakarta. A gynecologist Salma discovers, to her shock,
that her husband has taken a second wife. She tolerates successive
wives as 'a good Muslim wife' should, until an incident forces her to
cater to everyone in his circle. Siti, a country girl, realizes too
late that her uncle, who has moved her to Jakarta with the promise of
sending her to beauty school, has other intentions. In a packed
household, Siti's hope for survival rests in her growing intimacy with
one of her uncle's other wives. And Ming, a waitress and material
girl, contrives to become her Catholic boss' second wife. The lives of
these three women from different classes and ethnic backgrounds
intersect as the similarities in their stories are revealed.
THE LAST FULL SHOW, Mark V. Reyes, 18 minutes/ Tagalog with English
subtitles/ 2004/ The Phillipines
A young man, just beginning to explore his sexuality, learns a painful
first lesson about love after meeting an older, more experienced man
at an underground Manila movie theatre.
THE MATCHMAKER, Cinzia Puspita Rini, 10 minutes/ Indonesian with
English subtitles/ 2006/ Indonesia
A simple story about Kay, an eclectic girl with both beauty and
sweetness and a guy who seems to fall for her. Their eyes locked and
she had him besotted since the first second he saw her, in his
bookstore. The simple yet charming guy, named Darren owns a bookstore
and she is quite a regular customer. A conversation over the book she
ordered actually begins what we think as a start of a romantic
journey. While, Kay is cooking a master plan which involves Darren in
her own mind, they enjoy their times together. A week after their
first meeting, Kay decides to launch her master plan.
BEAUTIFUL BOXER, Ekachai Uekrongtham, 118 minutes/ Thai with English
subtitles/ 2003/ Thailand
Based on the real life story of Parinya Charoenphol, a Muaythai boxer
who underwent a sex change operation to become a woman. The movie
chronicles her life from a young boy who likes to wear lipstick and
wear flowers to her sensational career as kickboxer whose specialty is
ancient Muaythai boxing moves which she can execute expertly with
grace and finally her confrontation with her own sexuality which led
to her sex change operation.
For more information on the films and their directors please see:
www.filmsofdesire.org
Pramada Menon
Director Programs
CREA
7 Jangpura B, Mathura Road
New Delhi 110014, India
Tel: 91 11 24377707, 24378700, 24378701
Fax: 91 11 24377708
www.creaworld.org
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