VietNamNet Bridge – A two-day workshop on reality-based sound with sound wizard Ernst Karel will be organized at VUI Studio, 3C Tong Duy Tan Street, Hanoi on November 6, 8 (10am-6pm). This two-day workshop will focus on an approach to documentary audio through the practice of location recording and composing with location recordings.  This approach to working with sound does not privilege the human voice, and considers the process of recording as part of engaging in an encounter with a social situation or lived environment through all of one’s senses. And through this encounter, audio recordings arise.  Once audio recordings have arisen, we engage with them anew in the process of listening back and editing. In the workshop attendants will listen to and discuss relevant audio pieces, as well as ideas about audio as a way of exploring ‘place’.  They will then get started right away by choosing a site or network of sites, where participants will … [Read more...]

VietNamNet Bridge - The exhibition “Flower Your Culture Art” and Breakdance Jam featuring Bboy Aleandro Paolillo will open at 5.30pm on November 1, Hang Da Market, Hanoi. At the same time, Weather Report Station – a presentation on activities of the art project Hope Box – starring the Gang of Five and Fio Silva will be held at Mai Gallery from 7pm of November 1. Aleandro will host workshops with several groups of breakdancers in Hang Da Market between October 30 and November 4. On November 4, HBX (Hope Box) 25UP Breakdance contest will be held between 6-8pm. Exhibition “Flower Your Culture Art” and Weather Report Station will be open till November 9. Hope Box is an art project initiated and implemented by Dutch artist Rienke Enghardt since 1991. It has been active for 25 years and has often been a witness of big changes, worldwide and local. PV … [Read more...]

VietNamNet Bridge - Continuing the success of previous sessions, this November “Hidden Beat” will be back with the stimulating yet deep, moving jazzy melodies from SamRaz. Their music is aunique mixture of two cultures’ spirit, a dedicated combination of saxophone and guitar. The show will be held at Heritage Space, 6 Nguyen Hoang, Hanoi on November 4 (8-10pm). Samuel Caballero was born in Colombia and studied music there in the conservatory (conservatorio del Tolima). His main instruments are guitar and voice. He performed with bands around Colombia and South America before coming to Vietnam. Raz Carmel was born in Israel and started studying and playing wind instruments, with focus on saxophone soprano, Raz played at many places around the country and performed different kinds of music like jazz and alternative in the spirit of Latin music. Sam and Raz met in May 2015 in Israel. After many performances in Israel and Egypt, they decided to form a band and continue … [Read more...]

VietNamNet Bridge – The 5th edition of Hanoi DocFest, Vietnam’s only annual festival, dedicated to independent creative documentaries, experimental and hybrid films, will be jointly held by Hanoi DocLab and Goethe-Institut Hanoi on November 5-12. This year’s festival has an important structural change: the program will last for a week and happen in many places in the city, to give the audience a broader perspective of what’s happening in the independent film scene.  At DocFest 2017, you will find films that contemplate the many aspects of the social and the personal, manifested not only in informational routes but also in unique formal approaches.  A 2-day symposium dedicated to cinema of the region, titled “Time, Space, and the Visceral in Southeast Asian Cinema”, will be organized, with the Southeast Asian Cinema Research Network, with speakers including Philippa Lovatt, Gaik Khoo, Jasmine Trice, Mariam Lam, Hitomi Hasegawa, Sow-Yee Au, … [Read more...]

VietNamNet Bridge – Three French films - “Minuscule: La vallée des fourmis perdues”, “Jappeloup” and “En quête de sens” - will be introduced at L’Espace at 24 Trang Tien Street, Hanoi, next week. A scene from A Quest for Meaning The first movie - “Minuscule: La vallée des fourmis perdues” (Minuscule: Valley of the lost ants) (France, 2014, 89’) - directed by Thomas Szabo and Hélène Giraud will screen at 3.30pm, November 5. Adapted from the well-known TV series, the animation combines a magnificent background of mountains and forests with authentic 3D characters. This no-dialogue movie was widely praised when released in France in 2013.  Le Figaro comments: “The script is humorous and gentle”. Le Monde appreciated the techniques, confirming the movie is the creative result of amazing sound. “Rain, wind and drops of water of the leaves are sometimes captured … [Read more...]

A festival featuring the worship of Mother Goddesses will bring many folk artists from across the nation to Hanoi on November 9-13. Performers will present trance performance to pay tribute to 50 genies worshipped by the Mother Goddesses beliefs.  The Thăng Long Cultural Heritage Association will organise the festival at Rừng Temple, Long Biên District. Twenty nine mediums and cung văn (performers in spiritual rites) will present a trance performance to pay tribute to 50 genies worshipped as part of the Mother Goddesses beliefs. In Việt Nam’s Mother Goddess worshipping practice, there are Four Palaces including Nhạc Phủ (Forest), Thiên Phủ (Heaven), Thủy Phủ (Water) and Địa Phủ (Earth). With the participation of artist troupes, the event is expected to help promote unique indigenous culture and practices. Within the framework of the festival, the Việt Nam Music Development Centre will … [Read more...]

VietNamNet Bridge - The open studio of artist Truong Que Chi, “WHEN I STOP BY THE CAPE”, curated by Chau Hoang at Nha San Collective will open at Nha San Collective, 15th floor, Hanoi Creative City Building, 01 Luong Yen, Hanoi from now until November 4. Detailed program: Open studio: 28 Oct – 4 Nov 2017, 3 – 7 pm (Wed to Sun) Screening & talk with filmmaker Do Van Hoang: Thu 2 Nov 2017, 5.30 pm 17h30: Film #1 (2003, 84m) In a cinema theater, there is a hotel. In the hotel, there is a room. In the room, there is a couple. They come to separate. The receptionist falls asleep while watching a martial arts movie. 19h00: Talk (40m) 19h45: Film #2 (2011, 79m) Certain events take place in our lives, not because of any particular reasons but by pure chance. We pick out some points in time to form an arbitrary series of intentions, string them together and deem such thing the cause for what has transpired. An M.A. graduate of Film Studies from the University of … [Read more...]

VietNamNet Bridge – The artworks of 15 artists from many countries will be displayed at “Utopia Land” Exhibition at Heritage Space, 1st Floor, Dolphin Plaza, 6 Nguyen Hoang, Hanoi from October 29 through November 30. “Utopia Land” is the final exhibition of Contemporary Art exchange project ‘Month of Arts Practice – MAP 2017’, which plays a role in opening a platform for artists to set up surrealist, illusive and dreamy worlds with the abilities, tools and means of art.  “Utopia Land” exhibition presents artworks of 15 artists from Germany, France, Serbia, South Korea, India, America and Vietnam. All works are results of 5 exchange and working weeks of MAP. Disciplines are varied: painting, sculpture, photography, videography, multimedia, conceptual and public art, installation and site-specific art. Together, they have been through all barriers, challenges, conflicts and harmonization arising from differences in culture, … [Read more...]