Visual Pond and Power Plant Mall, in partnership with the Listening Group of Companies, the Cubicle Art Gallery, The One Minutes Foundation, and with support from the Ateneo Art Gallery, presented the End Frame Video Art Project, the first Philippine video art festival, which opened on 25 September 2006 at the North Court, Power Plant Mall. The festival ran until 28 September 2006 at Power Plant Mall and 30 September — 4 October 2006 at the Cubicle Art Gallery at Stella Maris St., Maybunga, Pasig. The End Frame Video Art Project calls attention to the video art scene in the Philippines — creating opportunities for artists to show their works and furthering discussion on a medium that is quickly gaining popularity among Filipino artists as a contemporary art form. Over 40 entries were received from around the Philippines with 18 being selected by the End Frame curatorial team composed of Clarissa Chikiamco, Cofounder, Visual Pond; Teddy Co, Member, Cinema Committee, National Commission of Culture and the Arts; Anne Marie de Guzman, Director, UP Film Institute; Rica Estrada, Cofounder, Visual Pond; Eloisa Hernandez, Assistant Professor, College of Arts and Letters, UP Diliman; Fatima Lasay, New Media Artist and Curator; Marinella Mina, Cofounder, Visual Pond and Raymond Red, Independent Filmmaker. Artists whose works were being shown in Power Plant are Adjani G. Arumpac, Ramon A. Bautista, Jasmine Bernardino, Bea Camacho, Dante Luel R. Dizon, Tad Ermitano, Rodel Gadapan …
Purchase at www.TheVeteransMuseum.com A NEW World War II Documentary recently reviewed in the New York Times. This 5-Part independent project, filmed in a style similar to Ken Burns, follows the real-life story of a Philadelphia teenager who left his large Irish family to join the famous 101st Airborne Division during WWII. The film uses only real voices of WWII airborne veterans rather than voice-over narration. These aging troopers describe their personal war, one place and one incident at a time in the largest conflict in human history. Humble heroes recount jump training at Fort Benning; brief romances in England and a night jump into Normandy. The lone survivor of C-47 Plane #5, tells how his “lucky bill” was signed by everyone before taking off to an unknown fate. A second combat jump into Holland precedes 72 days along Hell’s Highway. These troopers came home with not only Purple Hearts, but also traumatic memories that still resonate as if they happened yesterday. Sisters and brothers describe a trooper’s teenage years before their world was turned upside down after December 7th 1941. This story ends in the small town of Bastogne, soon to become a household word after the Christmas of 1944. Lives of a young Belgian boy and a paratrooper not much older, are miraculously saved and reconnected with a Prayer Card …returned after 62 years.A year in the making, this independent documentary project uses interviews, vintage wartime Philadelphia home movies, personal …
Video Rating: 4 / 5