The Substation Moving Images presents:
Four Short Films by Woo Ming Jin
20th Dec Saturday, 5pm
The Substation Theatre
Tickets at $6/4 (concession for students, NSFs, SFS members)
Available at The Substation box office
*Includes post-screening Q&A with writer/director Woo Ming Jin
Film Programme
1. BLUE ROOF / 13min / 2007 / PG
Albert,
a security guard in an apartment complex, is a middle aged man who
walks with a limp, and is obsessed with collecting news articles on car
accidents. Each morning, during his rounds, he goes up to the rooftop,
and contemplates suicide. Will he ever jump?
Festivals & Awards: Rotterdam International Film Festival 2008, 12th Pusan International Film Festival 2007
2. CATCHING THE SEA / 13min / 2005 / PG
Catching
the Sea is a short film about the lives of several people in a village
after a mysterious disease strikes and kills their loved ones. Set in a
dilapidating fishing island, the film is about reconciling death and
moving on with life.
3. LOVE FOR DOGS / 24min / 2003 / PG
Love
for Dogs tells two parallel stories; A construction worker returns to
his hometown and tries to reconnect with his daughter after abandoning
his family to work in Cambodia. The second story follows Lily, an
overweight girl living with her aunt and dealing with the absence of
her immediate family.
Festivals & Awards: Bangkok Short Film
Festival (Special Mention Award), Digital MOV Festival 2005, Manila
(Best Asean Short Film), Rotterdam International Film Festival 2005
4. IT IS POSSIBLE MY HEART CANNOT BE BROKEN / 16min / 2005 / PG
It
is Possible Your Heart Cannot Be Broken is a short film about the
innocence and disintegration of love. It tells the story between two
people, Apple and Ah Tat, told in two different perspectives. Ah Tat, a
dreamy simpleton romantic meets the jaded but equally insecure Apple.
Can these two people - obviously completely different yet yearning for
the same thing- sustain their relationship?
“This is a big city, but sometimes it’s the loneliest place.”
Festivals
& Awards: Rotterdam International Film Festival 2006, Hong Kong
International Film Festival 2006, Singapore International Film Festival
2006
POST-SCREENING Q&A WITH WOO MING JIN
Director’s Statement:
My
films have focused on nature and its relationship with humanity. I have
always been fascinated by the “beauty of ruins”. Nature is an element
that man must live with, and that is something that plays out in my
films. In these films, the characters struggle to reconcile their
broken lives with their surroundings. Each character is flawed, and
none of them has a solution to fix themselves.
Each film is framed and lit the way I intended, and in some ways, they reflect my thoughts and views of the world.
These
four shorts best represent my work as an artist. The stories are small
and intimate, but they are also powerful and poignant. They are also
funny.
About Woo Ming Jin (Writer/Director)
Ipoh born
Malaysian filmmaker, Woo Ming Jin, is an award-winning filmmaker who
studied film and television at the San Diego State University after
receiving a scholarship in 1999.
His feature film debut,
Monday Morning Glory, premiered at the San Francisco International Film
Festival, and was invited to the Berlin International Film Festival,
the first Malaysian film selected in the last 10 years. It was also
selected to the Pusan International Film Festival, Tokyo International
Film Festival, and Locarno International Film Festival, among others.
His
second feature film, The Elephant and the Sea, has five awards and has
been selected to screen in more than 30 film festivals worldwide,
including the Rotterdam, Los Angeles, Seattle, Hong Kong, Vancouver,
Torino, and Karlovy Vary Film Festivals.
This year Ming Jin received a script grant from the Pusan Film Festival for his next feature, Woman on Fire Looks for Water.
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