Subscription Concert Vol.74 “Rheinische”

30 and 31 Oct 2014, 8 pm

Hanoi Opera House

1 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội

You are invited to a subscription concert Vol.74 “Rheinische” with the performance of:

Conductor: Olivier Leo Schmidt

Piano Soloist: Dao Trong Tuyen

And the Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra

Program

Dang Huu Phuc

Suite for Symphonic Orchestra World Premiere

Eight Symphonic pieces from Vietnamese folk song

Robert Schumann

Piano Concerto a-minor Op.54 Vietnam Premiere

Robert Schumann

Symphony No.3 Eb major Op.97 “Rhenish” Vietnam Premiere

Tickets

Ticket prices: 200000, 350000, 500000 VND. All tickets available at Hanoi Opera House or can book online at vnso.org.vn.

For free delivery Call: 0913489858, 0983067996.    

French Modern Cuisine Experience at Metropole Hanoi

29 Oct – 01 Nov 2014

Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi

15 Ngo Quyen Str, Hanoi

For the first time in Hanoi, Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi proudly present a marvellous French fine dining experience created by Gilles Reinhardt – executive chef of Paul Bocuse’s 3-Michelin Star restaurant in France.

Chef Gilles Reinhardt is widely-considered one of the greatest chefs of the 20th century. He has also been awarded the prestigious craftsmanship title of “Meilleurs Ouvriers de France” presented by French President Jacques Chirac in 2004.

Bringing fresh Lyonnais produce and the extraordinary culinary methods inherited from the legendary Bocuse, Chef Reinhardt will be presenting a delectable dinner menu consisting of Truffle Soup “Elysee 1975”, Scallops Gnocchi with Leek and Herb Sauce, Bourgeois-Style Pan-Roasted Pigeon, Lobster Gratin in the style of Fernand Point and many more dishes.

The menu highlight is ‘Black Truffle Soup “Elysee 1975”. It is a legendary dish which Bocuse created in 1975 and it was served for former French President Valery Giscard d’Estaing at the Elysée Palace. This later became Bocuse’s signature dish and the soup has been served at his renowned restaurant in Lyon ever since.

From 29 – 31 October:

+ 7-course degustation menu at VND4,620,000++

+ 5-course saveurs at VND3,360,000++

+ A la carte VND2,520,000++

1 November: Four hands dinner 6-course degustation menu at VND 4,500,000 ++

Each menu includes a complimentary glass of Veuve Clicquot champagne for each diner.

Mini DocFest 2014

31 Oct – 02 Nov 2014 29 Oct – 04 Nov 2014

Goethe-Institut Hanoi

56-58 Nguyễn Thái Học, Ba Đình, Hà Nội

After the success of Mini DocFest 2012 and 2013, Hanoi DocLab and Goethe-Institute Hanoi are delighted to present the 3rd edition of the Mini DocFest 2014, highlighting new trends in creative documentaries by young Vietnamese filmmakers.

Documentary and fiction, narrative and abstract, film and poetry will cross paths at this festival weekend:

At the opening night, ‘Fiction Non Fiction Part I’ with Vietnamese short films with blurring boundaries between documentary and fiction, between film and video art, including Truong Que Chi’s ‘Black Sun’ – a winner at this year’s Oberhausen International Short Film Festival; Nguyen Thuy Tien’s ‘1953 Case’ combining documentary with performance; and Ta Minh Duc’s ‘Film No. 1’ mixing narrative and documentary elements, will show Hanoi audiences how far out of the documentary conventions our young filmmakers are willing to go.

On the second night, a program of latest productions of the DocLab Basic Workshop 2013 will provide an insight into the process of shaping a new generation of independent documentary and experimental filmmakers in Hanoi. These short films, telling stories with diverse styles and voices, continue Doclab’s tradition of exploring and developing diverse film languages of the individual.

Fittingly to the theme of the festival, Osaka-based German filmmaker Werner Penzel – who will be present in Hanoi during the festival to lead a film workshop at Doclab entitled “Haiku Happens” – will screen “Step Across the Border”, an avant-garde black & white 35mm documentary film which won “Best Documentary” at the European Film Awards in 1990, on English guitarist, composer and improviser Fred Frith.

On Sunday afternoon, ‘Fiction Non Fiction Part II’ with mixed-genre films, continuing to take the audience on imaginative journeys to Myanmar, Japan, India, and to the inner worlds, will be followed by Nguyen Thi Tham’s feature-length documentary “Madam Phung’s Last Journey”, centering around a group of traveling transvestite singers who spark fascination and hostility from the local people. This film, having been screened extensively at international film festivals worldwide, and received a “Special Mention” at ChopShots Documentary Film Festival Southeast Asia in Jakarta earlier this year, will showcase success stories for independent and socially engaged documentary production projects in Vietnam.

The Mini Doc Festival will close on Sunday night with Siu Pham’s experimental film “Homostratus” — which received the Best Unique Vision award at Queen World Film Festival this year in New York.

The program also includes other film activities including a panel discussion with invited Vietnamese independent and experimental filmmakers; a presentation led by the Film Study Group (FSG) on Chris Marker’s films; and a workshop on Independent Cinema with Siu Pham.

A special presentation of videos from Harun Farocki’s Hanoi workshop “Labor in a Single Shot” will commemorate the renown German filmmaker and video artist who passed away this past August. Farocki will continue to inspire our workshop participants and be dearly remembered by the Hanoi audience who came to see his innovative films in 2013.

An exciting weekend full of film screenings, debates and opportunities for exchange offers festival delights for everyone.

PROGRAM

From Wednesday, 29.10 to Friday, 31.10.2014

Haiku Happens – A filmmaking workshop by Werner Penzel

Thursday, 19h30, 30.10.2014

ATK – 73A Mai Hắc Đế – Hà Nội

Mini DocFest 2014 opening party

VAGABUNDEN KARAWANE (film screening + director Q&A with Werner Penzel)

music: LAFIDKI (live)

music: ALEX TASSEL (DJ)

TICKETS (available at doors):

50k (students with valid student IDs) / 80k

Friday, 31.10.2014

4 pm

Presentation and discussion with the Film Studies Group about “On personal Filmmaking”

Language: Vietnamese

(Venue: Room 402, House I, Đại Học Khoa học Xã Hội và Nhân Văn, Hà Nội)

7 pm

Opening

“Fiction Non Fiction, Part 1” – Short film program (95’)

Q&A with filmmakers after screening

1. Black Sun (12’55,Vietnam, 2013)

Director: Trương Quế Chi

Language: Vietnamese with English subtitles

2. The light-being (Animation, 2’30, Vietnam, 2014)

Director: Nguyen Hoang Giang

3. Go ask the garden (8’57, Vietnam, 2014)

Director: Đồng Thảo

Language: Vietnamese with English subtitles

4. Case 1953 (9’54, Vietnam, 2013)

Director: Nguyễn Thuỷ Tiên

Language: Vietnamese with English subtitles

5. Let the ephemeral ecstasies fall into us and fill us up (34’33, Vietnam, 2014)

Director: Nhã Thuyên

Language: Vietnamese with English subtitles

6. Film No. 1 (27’, Vietnam, 2013)

Director: Tạ Minh Đức

Language: Vietnamese with English subtitles

Mini DocFest 2014 4

Saturday, 01.11.2014

10 am

Panel discussion on how Vietnamese independent and experimental filmmakers create and pursue their own paths, with filmmakers Siu Pham, Nghiem Quynh Trang, Tran Phuong Thao, Nguyen Thi Tham, and Nguyen Trinh Thi. Moderated by Do Van Hoang.

2 pm

Film Study Group presents “Stories of the Image” 2: Chris Marker and Critical Thinking in Artistic Practice”

Language: Vietnamese

4 pm

Step across the border (90’, Germany and Switzerland, 1990)

Director: Nicolas Humbert & Werner Penzel

Language: English with Vietnamese Subtitles

Q&A with director Werner Penzel after the screening

7 pm

DOCLAB Basic Workshop Films 2013

Q&A with filmmakers after the screening

1. Amongst the Dawn (10’30)

Director: Hạnh

Language: Vietnamese with English subtitles

2. Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow (5’45)

Director: Quỳnh Anh

Language: Vietnamese with English subtitles

3. As I Lie Dying (12’56)

Director: Phương Anh

Language: Vietnamese with English subtitles

4. …that I Love and Admire (14’39)

Director: Hương Mai

Language: Vietnamese with English subtitles

5. Blue Wall (15’)

Director: Mỹ Hằng

Language: Vietnamese with English subtitles

6. Two-ish Years (15’)

Director: Cẩm Giang

Language: Vietnamese with English subtitles

7. The Search (5’)

Director: Ngọc Anh

Language: Vietnamese with English subtitles

Mini DocFest 2014 5

Sunday, 02.11.2014

10.00 am

Series of selected Southeast Asian short films from ChopShots Jakarta 2014

1. Behind the scene (35’, Myanmar, 2013)

Director: Aung NwaiHtway

Subtitles: Vietnamese and English

2. Where I go (56’, Cambodia, 2013)

Director: Neang Kavich

Subtitles: Vietnamese and English

3. Another color tivi (8’, Indonesia, 2013)

Director: Yovista Ahtajida & Dyantini Adeline

Subtitles: English & Vietnamese

2 pm

“Fiction Non Fiction, Part 2” – short film program (80’)

Q&A with filmmakers after the screening

1. Maudlin Room (8’57, 2013)

Director: Đồng Thảo

Language: Vietnamese with English subtitles

2. Travel with blue Balloon (8’47, 2014)

Director: Khổng Việt Bách

Language: Vietnamese with English subtitles

3. Slowly Passing Trains (21’, 2014)

Director: Jamie Maxtone­Graham

Language: Vietnamese with English subtitles

4. Jo Ha Kyu (10’45, 2012)

Director: Nguyễn Trinh Thi

Language: Vietnamese with English subtitles

5. A Film on the Sofa (25’, 2012)

Director: Đỗ Văn Hoàng

Language: Vietnamese with English subtitles

4.30 pm

Madame Phung‘s last journey (86’, Vietnam, 2014)

Director: Nguyễn Thị Thắm

Language: Vietnamese with English subtitles

6 pm

Homostratus (77’, Vietnam, 2013)

Director: Siu Pham

Language: Vietnamese with English subtitle

Q&A with director Siu Pham after screening

Monday, 03.11 and Tuesday, 04.11.2014

6 pm – 9pm

Public workshop on independent cinema with filmmaker Siu Pham

Language: Vietnamese

For more information please visit: www.hanoidoclab.org    

Sculpture Showcase “New Form: Sculpture – Architecture – Space”

Opening: Fri 10 Oct 2014, 2 pm

Exhibition: 10 Oct – 04 Nov 2014

Manzi Art Space

14 Phan Huy Ich, Hanoi

Artists: Phạm Thái Bình, Thái Nhật Minh, Khổng Đỗ Tuyền, Hoàng Mai Thiệp

Curator: Nguyễn Anh Tuấn

Manzi Art Space and New Form sculpture group cordially presents a piece of experimental sculpture named “New Form: Sculpture – Architecture – Space”. The exhibition is an activity in New Form project phase II, 2014 – 2015.

NEW FORM is an experimental sculpture project, which aims to overcome stereotypes of traditional sculpture and to open up new directions in thinking and creative possibilities of this art form. NEW FORM was founded by sculptors living and working in Hanoi with the desire to develop their career and to find new creative directions as well as experience a professional working environment.

In phase II, New Form project aims towards the connection of sculpture works with architectural living space in reality. The dialogue characteristics between the artworks are placed in the communicative ability with architecture, interior, and usage of that space. This dialogue has created special challenges when sculptures aren’t just dealing with its traditional inner relation such as shapes, materials, surfaces, colours, and aesthetics… but also with the correlation between sculpture and architectural space in the shape and function. This has to do with the environment, light, air, time, weather, the available context, and the changeable context as well as with the viewers’ behaviours and attitude to arts. When art isn’t just purely for the visual satisfying display, art has transformed into an intervention, intrusion and being parallel with movements, feelings, psychologies in everyday life activities. Sculpture, therefore, needs to be more active in their presence in the chosen space, how to integrate into that space as well as the on-going challenges because of the living space’s continuous operational characteristics. It isn’t simply just a traditional static fixed dead space.

The works of Thai Nhat Minh is a sculpture experiments with its role to connect the current space with the concept. Minh tries to find the connection between the inner and outer space, interior and exterior space by implementing at the gallery’s windows. The sculptural shapes were pressed flat and shown in a reflective material. The space in and outside interfered through the gaps of the window frames creating a visible visual connection for the audience. The artist wants to use this dialogue to open suggestions and questions about space and the space connection between inside and outside, between the reflective illusion reality, between the limited physical space and the imaginative conceptual space.

The showcase of Pham Thai Binh took inspiration form the strong influence of architecture and modern design language to sculpture. Leaving the sculptures based on fixed forms, the works of Binh has developed towards site-specific installations and modularity. The leaf-formed-pieces are arranged from the main wall of the fireplace to the gallery ceiling. It aims to explore flexibility and diversity ability in the combination of sculpture and architecture. This actually exists inside the sculpture itself.

Khong Do Tuyen continues to deploy the art direction of combining the rope structure from phase I. Following this way; he uses the ropes to create the structure of the space. Tuyen uses the walls, windows and the entire gallery ceiling as the space for sculpture. The artist’s experiment expanded the sculpture possibility. It isn’t just integrating but also changing the architecture space and also shows the connection between architecture space and sculpture space can be a unified piece. This new language surely has the influence from the modern architecture structure, industrial design but sill keeps the vibe spirit of traditional creative sculpture.

Sculptor Hoang Mai Thiep shows a piece of sculpture combining with site-specific installation. Having the inspiration from the family tree – the popular family genealogy in rural life, Thiep uses the wooden blocks in many different sizes to mount on the large walls of the room. The blocks are arranged in an alternative and overlapping way beside the portrait reliefs of the rural men and women or just empty reliefs. The conceptual elements of the work is expressed through the installation of the blocks in a random way, the empty and solid of each block, as well as the ambition to show the complex content through the sculpture language. And it also wants to embrace the connection ability of sculpture and other architectural spaces. `

The participation of Pham Dam Ca brought graphical solution for the showcase of the sculptures. They aren’t just present with the auxiliary function for the sculptures. The graphic language of Dam Ca goes along with the works in the spirit of a specialized graphic solution for the art exhibition, which continued to develop from New Form exhibition I (2013). The shapes-arrays-lines, which were expressed in the logo of the project in phase I, are now dissected to intentionally independent fragmented segments and pieces. This is a concise expression in visual and graphic language in parallel to the development of sculpture form and space.

To understand in a simple way, architecture is a work of creating spaces to serve the function of human lives. However, architecture isn’t just the physical space with the divided spaces of specific function. That is also the structure of human lives such as space structure, thinking structure, relationship structure or aesthetic structure. When sculpture starts to find a way to intervene, intrude in that space, it is not only the process of seeking and adapting with architecture but it has the ability to shift, change or even redefine architecture spaces by its visual elements and time concept. When architecture has oriented more and more to the universality in public space, uniqueness in small and medium spaces with its own meanings, sculpture also needs to shift and change to bring out the suggestions. That is the objective of New Form project and the spirit of this exhibition.

This event is made possible with the generous support from Danish Cultural Development and Exchange Fund in Vietnam (CDEF).

Film screening + Concert: Vagabunden Karawane + Lafidki + Alex Tassel (vinyl DJ)

Thu 30 Oct 2014, 7.30 pm

ATK

73a Mai Hac De, Hanoi

ATK + Moon Gramophone + Hanoi DocLab present Mini DocFest 2014 opening party:

VAGABUNDEN KARAWANE (film screening + director Q&A with Werner Penzel)

LAFIDKI (live)

ALEX TASSEL (DJ)

VAGABUNDEN KARAWANE (1979)

Werner Penzel – 82′

No real dialogues

“In 1979 the Krautrock rockers Embryo took their instruments and a movie camera on a bus ride through Iran, Afghanistan and India, jamming with musicians along the way, painting murals on silk, partying with the circus and giving birth by candlelight. The resulting footage is a fascinating document of cross-cultural mind-blowing.”

“The bass of the diesel drone interrupted by a screeching brake solo – each road has its own song.

The Hindu priest, laughing hysterically as he realizes the camera focusing on him and keeps laughing after the film ran out – all your preconceived concepts shattered by present tense reality – the argument over the last bottle of whisky stashed away for the customs official in Iran – the night of fear at the Secret Police – the first chillum after the Afghanistan border – the people under the bridges of Calcutta and the cold morning bath in the mountains of turkey…

The shared dream of being on the road, this powerful dream stronger than all fears and horrors of disease, lack of money, borders and civil wars.

It pushes us on through the night when everybody on the buses is huddled against each other, sound asleep, save for the drivers bent over the wheel, leaving behind the serpentines of the passes and the desert roads stretching out straight across the flats, the radio turned on full volume, hoping for some decent music to keep you awake till the next stopover at some desolate gas-station.

The camera plunging into the bottomless pit between mere technical limitations and the irrevocability of each minute moment – after days becoming months the film footage is counted by miles.

Right now – just about one year after we set out for this trip – we’re back in the editing room viewing the director of the culture-institute with his abstract ideas right next to the shy smile of the Afghani shepherd boy, the night in the Pakistani circus tent dissolving to unexpected thunderstorm raging over riverbanks in India where one woman of our tribe gave birth to her first child cheered on by each and everybody, and the people of Calcutta jump up from their seats on the ground to boogie with embryo’s Afghani-Hindu-rock… (1979)”

LAFIDKI (live)

LAFIDKI is Saphy Vong, a Cambodian-French sound and visual artist. Messing around with abstract electronics, noise and sequenced multi-layered rhythms, playing live is for him always an experiment within the situation of spontaneous thinking and decision-making through the energy of people & space.

“…the brightest synth patterns and the biggest beats, doing some sort of amplified tropical rhythm along with starry, crystalline synths. Basically, it sounds like staring up at the stars and zoning out while dancing for a few minutes…” Foxy Digitalis

“Spacy winter lo-fi maximalism hymns and impatient post-pop.” Avant Avant

“The often masked Cambodian born, Paris/Nancy/Berlin-based musician has a unique sense for abstract electronics, bringing with him an energy and joy rare in such deeply experimental psychedelia. Lafidki’s blend of noise and sequenced multi-layered rhythms is a captivating solo listen, but this music’s also begging for a spot at your next dinner-party-turned-dance-off.” Stylus Magazine

TICKETS (available at doors):

50k (students with valid student IDs) / 80k

For more information, visit Mini DocFest 2014   

Exhibition “20 Years of AFD in Vietnam” at L’Espace

AFD

Opening: Mon 27 Oct 2014, 6 pm

Exhibition: 27 Oct – 08 Nov 2014

L’Espace

24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội

To commemorate the 20th anniversary of Agence Française de Développement (AFD) in Vietnam, a photo exhibition is organized at L’Espace to recognize the supported projects in Vietnam

20 selected photographs about Vietnamese local people and landscapes where flagship projects have been conducted by AFD sectors will feature in this event.

AFD is a public development financial institution that has been working to fight poverty and promote sustainable development in the Southern Hemisphere and the French Communities Overseas for over 70 years.

Exhibition “Minimal Asian” to Celebrate Twelve Years of Module 7

Exhibition: 18 Oct – 09 Nov 2014, 9 am – 7 pm

MODULE 7

83 Xuan Dieu Str, Tay Ho, Hanoi

Founded in 2002, Module 7 is a leading company in interior design consultancy in Hanoi with many innovative products pursuing their own style of simplicity, sophistication, elegance inspired by Asian cultural essence.

The design of Module 7 is the seamless combination of contemporary design and Vietnamese cultural essence. Products are designed and made in traditional craft villages across the country. Each item holds long-standing cultural values of traditional artisanal know-how with a resonance of modernity.

On October 18th, we are going to hold a 12 year celebration with an interior exhibition titled “Minimal Asian” by designer and founder of Module 7 Pham Kieu Phuc.

A dozen year celebration is also an occasion for us to express and share our passion and vocation in preserving and raising the value of handicraft production methods using local materials such as: woods, ceramics, bronze, bamboo and lacquer. You are also invited to the whole aspect and insight of our works, from products development process to interior design projects as well as skillful craftsman portraits through video clip made by our team.

CREATIVITY IS AN INHERITANCE

To Phạm Kiều Phúc, designer and founder of Module 7, contemplating to express not only the form but the hidden spirit of Asian decor is an exciting challenge, an open road that she has an opportunity to work in the present context where the craftsmanship is rich but lacks of competitiveness due to the absence of a suitable design thinking.

“Good design, to my mind, is the realization of a concept in which all the details are justified, where everything is necessary but there is no excess, where the function perfectly suits the context that give born to the idea. Our conical hat is a typical example.

There are my guides in creating objects and interior design. I am inspired by the serenity I have felt working with craftsmen and reflecting on their work. I do all I can to instill the knowledge they have given me into every object or piece of furniture I make. My final products are no longer mere craft objects, they always contain a core of tradition.”

CONTACT

MODULE 7, 83 Xuân Diệu, Tây Hồ, Hà Nội

Tel: 84 4 37197247 or 0982296787

Email: info@module7design.com

Website: www.module7design.com

Facebook: www.facebook.com/module7

MONO (Japan) Live in Vietnam – The Last Dawn/Ray of Darkness Asian Tour

Wed 29 Oct 2014, 8 pm

HCMC Conservatory of Music

112 Nguyen Du Str, Dist 1, HCMC

We proudly present MONO (Japan), one of the most prominent and unique names in and outisde the loosely-defined post rock in their debut performance in Vietnam. The event is part of the pan-Asian promo concerts supporting the release of the duo Rays of Darkness and The Last Dawn, unquestionably a rare opportunity for lovers of music and Japanese-ism in Vietnam.

Somewhere and most prominently in Vietnam, whenever Jmusic gets a mention, it’s consistently X-Japan and the rest. Better (or worse), the presence of Japanese culture remains slim somewhere between the popular and the cult. However, with an open mind, one can peer through only to discover a complex of mega-fantastic, ultra-energetic, super-vivacious subcultures, including music, that thrive, that seek, that define and redefine characters. These are consistently a real treat for the perception however for some reason have remained largely off the mainstream radar, or from the youth culture’s favorites.

Put in such context, MONO is an exception, but also a definite Japanese identity on its very own: (forgive this of-used cliché: when Haruki Murakami comes to mind). Their sounds draw from a wider-than-wide range of influences throughout the career, from Sonic Youth, My Bloody Valentine to German’s maestro Beethoven, Polish Henry Górecki to Italian Ennio Morricone, to the exceptional (non-musical) Lars Von Trier, while all the same time audiences can feel their very Japanese-ness clearly pronounced.

The loose term post-rock aside, imagine a massive black marble edifice, divided by clear glass at intervals, until unexpectedly towards the top of the structure it explodes into a shower of fragments, with flames spitting upwards towards a starry sky. Put differently, the music delivered consists of textured melodies and tapestries of sound piled on top of one another, some as dense and impenetrable as the darkest of ocean depths and the next thinner than the highest and lightest of mountain airs, until inevitably the whole thing erupts sending molten rock cascading down around your ears. (Terrascope UK). MONO are in fact far more complex and often compared with such inventive outfits as Stars of the Lid, Explosions in the Sky and Do Make Say Think.

The Last Dawn and Rays of Darkness are a pair of new albums by MONO. Recorded simultaneously yet conceptually and creatively disparate, the two act as both opposing and complementary sides to a story. No strangers to narratives, the two albums explore familiar themes for the band: Hope and hopelessness, love and loss, immense joy and unspeakable pain. Those elemental parts of life and the complicated relationships they create have never been more resonant through MONO’s music than they are here.

Tickets

Ticket prices: 500,000 VND and 700,000 VND

 

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