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Program 34
Arclight Hollywood • 12:00 p.m.
 
AT FIRST, WE DREAM (RT: 85 minutes)
Emerging from the deep haze of illusion can sometimes be a painful experience. It even make one want to kill, or at least shut out the world. Yet there remains the possibility of love in the end—but only if one is willing to make that journey to achieve the elusive objective.

A WA RE
(USA, 2003) Dir./Scr.: Yasutomi Shimizu
When things get difficult, a woman and a professor handle life in their own ways. Whether it’s a real thing or a dream, life is full of A WA RE—pathos of things.
16mm, 11 min., color and black & white, Narrative
 
MEKONG INTERIOR
(France/Germany/USA, 2003) Dir./Scr.: Vanessa Ly
MEKONG INTERIOR covers a period of several days during a visit to Cambodia by a French couple, He and She. He, a Cambodian on his father’s side, marks his first trip to Cambodia, which his father left, never to return, during the 1960s. She, on the other hand, accompanies him as a tourist. As the camera observes their sojourn through Cambodia, it is apparent that there is a profound tension in their relationship. For his part, the trip to Cambodia is deeply disappointing as he is frustrated in his attempts to find the lost traces of his family. She, on the other hand, unburdened by inherited memories, is enjoying Cambodia, experiencing the unfamiliar and exotic elements of its culture in a much more direct and immediate way.
16mm, 34 min., color, Narrative, in French w/Eng. subtitles
 
I WISH, ON TV
(USA/Korea, 2003) Dir.: Yoon Jung Lee; Scr.: Yoon Jung Lee, Ji-Yeon Cha, Yoo Geun Kim
A little girl makes her wishes, seeing what she wants to see on TV and plays with her father in an unusual way—killing her father by smacking roses into his mouth.
16mm, 4 min., color, Experimental
 






FLOWER
(USA, 2003) Dir./Scr.: Tetsuya Hiroshima
FLOWER is a silent visual poem about a man lost in his memories. Possessing no particular life memory, the man’s imagination loiters through a complex maze of images created by the filmmaker through a series of handmade optical effects.
16mm, 12 min., color, Experimental (silent)
 
WAITING
(Thailand, 2003) Dir./Scr: Aditya Assarat
Koon has waited many years. He won’t wait any longer. He embarks on a cross-country journey in search of a single memory. On his way he passes through the lives of many other characters who are all waiting for things as well.
35mm, 25 min., color, Narrative

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