Saigon Experimental IV

Saigon Experimental IV – Screening Programme

Time: Sun, 27 Nov @2-6PM | Mon, 28 Nov @12-4PM
Location: Sàn Art
Millenium Masteri,
Units B.16 & B.17
132 Ben Van Don, Ward 6, District 4,
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Language: English & Tiếng Việt

Saigon Experimental Film IV is back for a new screening night after 2 years of quiet. Following 650 international film submissions, we have selected 22 standout short films all experimental in aesthetic, montage, topic or narration and we are now ready to share them with you.

Programme:

Part I. 90 minutes

  1. Love Machine (2021, Montenegro) – 7:23
    Director: Milo Masoničić
  2. A wind grazes your door (2021, Spain) – 7:30
    Directors: Jorge Castrillo y Pablo Paloma
  3. Heimat (2017, Germany) – 11:00
    Director: Alisa Berger
  4. Grimoire 9 (The elegance of a Colombian necktie) (2020, Colombia) – 3:05
    Director: Javier Fabregas
  5. Marija + Toma (2021, Serbia) – 9:09
    Directors: Eluned Zoe Aiano, Greta Rauleac, Alesandra Tatic
  6. Under the White Mask: the film that Haesaerts could have made (2020, Belgium) – 9:00
    Director: Matthias De Groof
  7. Roach Dinner (2021, Vietnam) – 4:00
    Director: Nguyễn Vũ Trụ
  8. Dots (2021, Germany) – 04:30
    Director: Ann Oren
  9. Fantastic Fruits (2022, Singapore) – 7:18
    Director:  Khairullah Rahim
  10. Blooming (2019, China) – 13:0011.
    Director: ​Lingyun Zheng
  11. Behind those Walls (2022, Vietnam) – 11:48
    Director: Trần Phước Hải Quỳnh 

Part II. 90 minutes

  1. CREATOR (2021, Japan) – 6:00
    Director: Riki Sato
  2. I’LL BE BACK! (2022, UK) – 10:54
    Director: Hope Strickland
  3. Noon in the cemetery (2020, Switzerland) – 08:02
    Director: Benjamin Poumey
  4. Keratin (2021, United Kingdom) – 3:45
    Directors: Charles Jimenez, Scarlett Wang, Catarina Dias Silva, Stella Rovenkvist, Isobel O’Gorman
  5. Passage (2020, Germany) – 12:48
    Director: Ann Oren
  6. Aralkum (2022, Uzbekistan & Germany) – 13:40
    Director: Mila Zhluktenko and Daniel Asadi Faezi
  7. Boom, Boom, Bass (2021, US) – 03:28
    Director: Brian M. Dinkel
  8. Love, Dad (2021, Czech Republic-Slovakia) – 12:42
    Director: Diana Cam Van Nguyen
  9. Transparent, the world is. (2019, Japan) – 7:00:
    Director: Yuri Muraoka
  10. The Stream XII (2022, Japan) – 3:57
    Director: Hiroya Sakurai
  11. Sisyphus’ Cat (2022, Vietnam) – 08:22
    Director: Lý Trang

[The session will end with a Q&A if you have any questions, comments or feedback on the event]

>>> Film programme (download the pdf): https://saigonexperimental.github.io 

Got questions? Contact us on here or by email (saigonexperimental@gmail.com)

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About Saigon Experimental Film Festival (SEFF):
Saigon Experimental Film Festival (SEFF) is a Ho Chi Minh City-based initiative launched in 2019 that encourages outsider visions and the unexpected.

Each year, we curate a 1-2 day event bringing together a selection of short films – all experimental whether in narration, editing, or visual content – carefully chosen from an international pool of online submissions. Aside from promoting a diversity of voices, aesthetics, career stage and localities, SEFF hopes to create a platform dedicated to imaginative and non-traditional video works in a country where these have limited visibility. Our shared love for this medium paired with a clear need for such events is what launched this initiative.

This edition is supported by Movies that Matter and Purin Pictures Foundation: