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Justin Chon’s ‘Blue Bayou’ Sells to Focus Features Out of Cannes Virtual Market (EXCLUSIVE)

“Blue Bayou,” the latest project from acclaimed independent filmmaker Justin Chon, has been acquired by Focus Features, Variety can report exclusively.

The studio brokered a worldwide deal for the film’s distribution rights out of the Cannes 2020 virtual market, which was financed by MARCO and Entertainment One. Focus will handle domestic rollout, while its parent company Universal will distribute internationally.

Chon, who wrote and directed the film, also stars alongside Academy Award winner Alicia Vikander, Mark O’Brien (“Arrival”), Linh Dan Pham and Emory Cohen (“Brooklyn”).

The film tells the heartbreaking story of Antonio LeBlanc, a Korean adoptee raised in the United States who is forced to confront his distant past and what it means for his own future and his family’s when he unexpectedly faces deportation. (via Variety)

[fortonystark]

Anti-Racist Resource Guide

Resource is from victoriaalxndr on Twitter!

[sansculottides]

a short dark academia reading rec list except it’s only philippine literature

dark academia is largely western- and euro-centric, so i hope to contribute to changing that. here are some filipiniana dark academia recommendations.

1. noli me tangere and el fibusterismo by josé rizal - of course, the absolute classics. if you’re from the philippines you probably read these in class. here’s my suggestion: read it again, outside of class. the originals are in spanish, but of course translations are available in other languages, including filipino and english. as these are old novels, free copies are available online.

2. the works of nick joaquin - while i believe joaquin to be a strong hispanophile, i still have a soft spot for his works. my recommendations include may day eve and a portrait of the artist as filipino. joaquin wrote in english. fun fact: nick joaquin was gay.

3. the poetry of leona florentino - there is only a handful of poems by florentino available on the internet, which is a shame. leona florentino is a sapphic icon. must-reads for filipino wlws. florentino wrote in spanish and ilocano but translations are also available.

4. pasyon and revolution by reynaldo ileto - non-fiction, history. they say history is written by victors, but this book examines the events of the past through the masses. ileto analyzes folklore, folk songs, religious traditions, &c to understand popular movements in philippine history. this book is in english.

5. the conjugal dictatorship by primitivo mijares - while it shouldn’t be your primary resource on the marcos regime, this book does awaken one to the horrors and atrocities of the martial law period. never again. this book is in english. i believe a free pdf is avaliable online.

if anyone is interested in any of these i would be happy to help you find copies online (or locally, if you are in the philippines). please feel free to add to my list!

[sansculottides]

I agree, Ilustrado does have strong DA vibes! I didn’t include it because I have a personal vendetta against the novel and it seemed dishonest to recommend it. Thank you, @kendallsroys!

[art--woonz]

[deathpetal]

The artist is Bea Camacho. The piece is called “Enclose”. It was performed over a span of 11 hours in 2005. 

This video work deals with ideas of isolation, security, shelter and of shaping one’s own environment. The video documents an eleven-hour performance during which I crocheted myself into a cocoon using red yarn. I crocheted continuously without breaks and the video shows the entire performance in real-time. 

Source

[littleoil]

The child looking for the stars

[chuwenjie]

City downpour

[theremina]

“Stress” by Yoan Capote

  2004

Concrete and bronze

250 x 60 x 60 cms

Edition : -

Collection : Karen and Robert Duncan- Lincoln, Nebraska, USA

This piece was inspired by the artist’s personal experience of grinding his teeth as a result of stress; but the work is also a monument to the collective experience of contemporary urban life. The artist went to a clinic in Havana and took the molds of teeth of several anonymous people; he reproduced those teeth in bronze and conjoined the molds in a linear fashion. The bronze teeth bear the weight of each 500 pound concrete block. The sculpture symbolically uses the notion of gravity, material and its weight to create the sculpture and the idea of burden; it also examines the meaning of teeth as an important part of the body used to establish identification or the identity of a person.

[mauveflwrs]

Kazuo Shiraga Chinzei Hachirotametomo 1962

[sinetheta]

Selected works from Hiding in the City (隐身在城市里). Liu Bolin (刘勃麟). Performance. 2005-2018.

Liu Bolin (刘勃麟), born in 1973, is an artist from Shandong province. He received his Master of Fine Arts from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2001. The Hiding in the City series, featuring Liu himself intricately painted to blend in with various city landscapes, is Liu’s earliest as well as most iconic work. The series was originally a form of silent protest against the Chinese government, prompted by the demolition of a Beijing art space that Liu was attached to.

Liu is headlining the Ballarat International Foto Biennale, an Australian photographic festival, from August 24, 2019 to October 20, 2019. 

Photo courtesy of Liu Bolin Studio.

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[cassiopeidae]

Art of Secret of Mana - Hirō Isono

[femalepressure]

Tujiko Noriko: electronic music producer and performer

https://soundcloud.com/tujikonorikoofficial

[eastasiansonwesternscreen]

Transgender Immigrant Pic ‘Lingua Franca’ to Bow at Venice Days

New York-based Filipina filmmaker Isabel Sandoval’s “Lingua Franca,” about a transgender immigrant, is among 11 competition entries, all world premieres, that will launch from the Venice Film Festival’s independently run Venice Days section.

The only U.S. entry set to compete in the section modeled on Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight, “Lingua Franca” is Sandoval’s third work. It follows “Apparition” (2012), a period drama about cloistered Filipina nuns praised by Variety’s Richard Kuipers as an “outstanding sophomore feature.”

Produced by Tony- and Grammy-winning Filipino producer Jhett Tolentino, and by Darlene Malimas and Carlo Velayo, “Lingua Franca” is set in Brighton Beach, New York, where a transgender Filipina immigrant named Olivia – played by Sandoval, who is herself transgender – scrambles to avoid deportation. She becomes involved with a Russian slaughterhouse worker who is unaware that she’s trans.

[nevver]

Home alone, Marcos Chin

[scndering-deactivated20220603]

“it cleared my skin and did my taxes…”

the farewell (2019) dir. lulu wang

[lifeinpoetry]

I am desperate for a language to hold me as does a water crossroads: between gravel shimmering in the transparent above the gravel. What is sharp and thin in me, I carry.

— Hari Alluri, from “Ancestral Memory,” published in Poetry

[daguerreotypen]

Are you trying to save my soul?

The Fall (2006) dir. Tarsem Singh

[saoc]

How Are We All Still Doing This?

An essay in which I question why I spend so much time on the internet

Semi unfiltered.