Lost In Translation

Art and Life Avatar: The Scream by Edvard Munch  Sidebar background: Number by Ruth Gwily  Header: Winter Park by Leonid Afremov

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A ceiling at Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre

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I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.

Franz Kafka

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Never Fall In Love

by Maria Sudibyo

I believe in love but never fall in love true love or lust love I want love but never fall in love am I so cold and don't have a heart or so stubborn and raise wall stone I search love but never fall in love platonic love or passionate love I'm loved but never fall in love am I afraid to be hurt by the one or kill it silently before I find it's gone I get everything but never fall in love I want to love and wait all my life should I pick one flower and pretend it's love pseudo love, unrequited love or mutual love so desperate to feel but never fall in love

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I Love You. Thank You.'s screening at UP Film Center. The director Charliebebs Gohetia, Prince Stefan (Red), and some of the crew were there after the screening to answer quetions from the audience.

Synopsis:

I Love You. Thank You. (2015)- Paul is a restless 20-something who cannot get his life together. Worse, he's been holding on to his love toward Red, his best friend Ivan's boyfriend. Looking for a sense of direction, he goes to Siem Reap and meets Tang, who falls in love with him

* Photos from I Love You. Thank You.'s Official Facebook page ** Synopsis from IMDb

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Led Zeppelin - Kashmir

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The Pencilsword (#10): On A Plate by Toby Morris From: http://thewireless.co.nz/articles/the-pencilsword-on-a-plate

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Sonnet XVII

by Pablo Neruda. In 100 Love Sonnets. 1960.

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz, or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off. I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul. I love you as the plant that never blooms but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers; thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance, risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body. I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride; so I love you because I know no other way than this: where I does not exist, nor you, so close that your hand on my chest is my hand, so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

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My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.

Anaïs Nin

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Murakami, H. (2002). Kafka on the Shore.

Synopsis:

Kafka on the Shore, a tour de force of metaphysical reality, is powered by two remarkable characters: a teenage boy, Kafka Tamura, who runs away from home either to escape a gruesome oedipal prophecy or to search for his long-missing mother and sister; and an aging simpleton called Nakata, who never recovered from a wartime affliction and now is drawn toward Kafka for reasons that, like the most basic activities of daily life, he cannot fathom. Their odyssey, as mysterious to them as it is to us, is enriched throughout by vivid accomplices and mesmerizing events. Cats and people carry on conversations, a ghostlike pimp employs a Hegel-quoting prostitute, a forest harbors soldiers apparently unaged since World War II, and rainstorms of fish (and worse) fall from the sky. There is a brutal murder, with the identity of both victim and perpetrator a riddle - yet this, along with everything else, is eventually answered, just as the entwined destinies of Kafka and Nakata are gradually revealed, with one escaping his fate entirely and the other given a fresh start on his own.

* Book cover from Vintage (2006) ** Synopsis from goodreads.com

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We don't choose whom we love. It just well... it's beyond our control.

JAIME LANNISTER (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) in Game of Thrones S05 E10. 2015.

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Christoph Waltz won his first Best Supporting Actor award for Motion Picture at the Golden Globe awards for his role as Colonel Hans Landa in Inglourious Basterds (2009).

Synopsis:

Inglorious Basterds begins in German-occupied France, where Shosanna Dreyfus witnesses the execution of her family at the hand of Nazi Colonel Hans Landa. Shosanna narrowly escapes and flees to Paris, where she forges a new identity as the owner and operator of a cinema. Elsewhere in Europe, Lieutenant Aldo Raine organizes a group of Jewish soldiers to engage in targeted acts of retribution. Known to their enemy as "The Basterds," Raine's squad joins German actress and undercover agent Bridget Von Hammersmark on a mission to take down the leaders of The Third Reich. Fates converge under a cinema marquee, where Shosanna is poised to carry out a revenge plan of her own.

* Official theatrical release poster ** Synopsis from rottentomatoes.com

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Teach Yourself Macho Dance Manual

The work invites a person to teach macho dancing based on his/her understanding of the manual.

ARTIST PROFILE

Eisa Jocson

Eisa Jocson is a contemporary choreographer and dancer from the Philippines. From pole to macho dancing, Eisa investigates the labour and representations of the dancing body in the service industry, and exposes gender formation, seduction politics, and Filipino social mobility. Her next work will uncover the world of ‘Japayuki’ – the foreign entertainers hired from the Philippines to perform for the pleasure of ‘salary-men’ in clubs throughout Japan.

* Photos, poster, details, and artist profile from Karnabal Festival 2015 Facebook page and website

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mouth.mumu

INNER VOICES FORBIDDEN SPEECHES GHOSTS OF THE MOUTH Tell me what it is that you can’t say out loud. If you’ll let me, I will give it a voice.

ARTIST PROFILE

Russ Ligtas

Russ is a visual artist exploring alternative possibilities in performance. A transplant from Cebu, he has continued his intermedia art practice in Manila since 2013. During performances, Russ oftentimes deploys his various alter egos—aspects of his psyche with specialized roles to confront and process specific realities. He situates his alte egos in various conditions, allowing them to exist and evolve as their own distinct personalities, while simultaneously mapping out their histories, and when elucidated, their narratives are transcribed into performances that communicate their origins, preoccupations, and ultimately their fates. At present, Russ contains seven alter egos, however he also performs as personages other than these that have yet to be named or identified.

* Photo, posters, details, and artist profile from Karnabal Festival 2015 Facebook page and website

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This Too Shall Past

A contemplation on the concept of ephemerality experienced through framed sounds in a performance structure.

ARTIST PROFILE

Teresa Barrozo

Teresa is a Filipino composer and sound artist with a wide range of work for film, theater and dance. Her compositions have been featured in the Asian Composers League Festivals in Japan and Thailand, and in the Asia-Pacific Weeks in Germany. Her film music works have been part of major international film festivals in Cannes, Venice, Toronto, Locarno and Berlin, to name a few. Barrozo recently returned from a fellowship in the U.S. from the Asian Cultural Council, focusing on composition, sound design, sound art, and contemporary sonic practices in deep listening, neuromusic, acoustic ecology, field recording, and electronic and computer music.

* Photo, poster, details, and artist profile from Karnabal Festival 2015 Facebook page and website

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Karnabal Festival 2015 is a pioneering contemporary and alternative creative laboratory for performance and social innovations in the Philippines.

Karnabal Festival 2015 will be a two-week multi-site festival in Diliman, Quezon City, Metro Manila, engaging more than 200 artists and around 3,000 audiences through different platforms for performances and exhibitions, training, dialogue and idea-presentations. Since September 2014, a series of workshops, discussions, and brainstorming gatherings among invited artists and speakers have been held in preparation for the Festival. KARNABAL 2015 will be from May 6 to 17.

* Posters and details from Karnabal Festival 2015 Facebook page and website

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Two Fishermen

by Lang Leav. In Lullabies. 2014.

A girl came upon a fisherman at the water’s edge and watched as he cast his net into the wide, open sea. On closer inspection, she noticed how all the knots that usually held a net together were unknotted.

“Why do you throw a knotless net into the water?” she asked.

“I want to catch all fish in the ocean,” he replied. “But there are none I wish to keep.”

She walked on a little further and came across another fisherman, holding a simple line. She studied him quietly as he reeled his catch in, before returning it to the water. After he repeated this several times, the girl asked him, “Why do you catch them just to throw them back?”

“There is only one fish I want to catch and so, no other holds my interest.”