A trailblazing book on Asian cinema for the 10th edition of Five Flavours
Five Flavours Film Festival marks its jubilee edition by publishing "Silent Explosion. New Cinema of East and Southeast Asia" edited by Jagoda Murczyńska.
The 10th edition of the Festival is a great opportunity to reflect on the variety of cinema and popculture in East and Southeast Asia, and on its importance to the world. Twelve new essays by Polish and foreign experts highlight the most interesting contemporary phenomena and trends, and show the new cinema's rootedness in the local traditions. The essays focus both on auteur cinema and genre films made for mass audiences.
SILENT EXPLOSION. NEW CINEMA OF EAST AND SOUTHEAST ASIA
The 21st century is the time of revolutionary changes for these booming cinematographies. Obscure, independent Malaysian filmmakers storm international festivals, Korean genre cinema gains throngs of fans worldwide, and the Chinese blockbusters make breathtaking profits. We hear the voices of filmmakers from small cinematographies, like Burma and Cambodia, who use films to tell their regions' stories from their own perspective.
This trailblazing book devoted to the cinematographies of East and Southeast Asia, published for the 10th edition of Five Flavours Film Festival, shows the current film trends in a wide cultural, historical and social perspective. The authors describe the most interesting phenomena in this fast-developing region: the local aesthetics, the rootedness in cultural traditions, and the global trends which radically change the ways of film industry. They inspect the Korean popculture, the murky poetics of Thai horrors, the strength of Indonesian action cinema, and the irresistible charm of independent Japanese films, highlighting the undervalued phenomena which redefine the language of contemporary cinema.
The authors include: Katarzyna Ancuta, Adam Cybulski, Karen Fang, Wafa Ghermani, Bogna Konior, Marcin Krasnowolski, Bastian Meiresonne, Agnieszka Mikrut-Żaczkiewicz, Jagoda Murczyńska, Jasper Sharp, Magdalena Sobolska and Sławomir Wasiński.
"Silent Explosion. New Cinema of East and Southeast Asia" edited by Jagoda Murczyńska, is published by Arteria Art Foundation, the organizer of Five Flavours Film Festival, in co-operation with Korporacja Ha!art.
Dreams for sale, dir. Miwa Nishikawa
BOOK PREMIERE
The book premieres on the first day of the 10th edition of Five Flavours – November 16th. Advance sale begins on November 2nd at piecsmakow.pl and ha.art.pl.
- Book price: 39 PLN
- Book price - advance sale: 29 PLN
- Book price - 10th Five Flavours Festival Pass holders: 29 PLN
FESTIVAL PASSES
Festival Passes for the 10th Five Flavours Film Festival are already available. This year, they come in two types: Basic Pass (190 PLN) is valid for all film screenings at Five Flavours except for the Gala Opening. Master Pass (270 PLN) is also valid for three Radio Asia concerts, Horror Night (a part of the Appetizers cycle) and the Gala Opening.
