from Dr. Tilman Baumgartel, UPFI lecturer:

Please join us for the book launch of my book "KINO SINE. Philippine-German Cinema Relations" at the University of the Philippines Film Institute on SATURDAY, FEB. 2nd, 2008 from 12:00 NN to 6 PM VIDEOTHEQUE, back of CINE ADARNA.

"KINO SINE" is about the manifold cinematic cooperations between German and Philippine film makers, in particular the influential experimental film workshops that the Goethe Institute, the UP Film Institute and Mowelfund organized during the 1980s. (For a more complete account of the book see the blurb below.) The book will be for sale during the launch.

We will solemnize the launch of the book by showing all the remaining films that were made in the various workshops that the Goethe Institut, Mowelfund and the U.P. Film Institute organized together in one long marathon. A more detailed schedule is to follow. We particularly hope to see many of the participants of these workshops, who often made their very first film in those seminars.

In addition to that, in the spirit of the German-Philippine film theme of the book, we will show national artists Gerry De Leon´s film version of Jose Rizal´s national epic "Noli Me Tangere" and the collaborative documentary "Maybe I Can Give You Sex?" by German director Jürgen Brüning and Philippine direk Rune Layumas. Dates and details below.

GERRY DE LEON: NOLI ME TANGERE (Philippines 1961)

The rarely screened, yet classic film version of the Philippine National Epic by National Artist Geraldo De Leon. We show this film, because it is connected with Germany for two reasons: Rizal´s novel was first printed in Berlin in 1881, and the restoration of the film was sponsored by the German government in 1991.

JÃœRGEN BRÃœNING & RUNE LAYUMAS: MAYBE I CAN GIVE YOU SEX? (Germany 1991)

The collaborative documentary of one director from Germany and one from the Philippines looks at the attitude towards homosexuality in two Asian countries: Thailand and the Philippines. The part about the Philippines contains shots of the nightlife in Malate and Ermita that by now are of historic interest.

SCHEDULE:

Feb 2 Sat @ the Videotheque 12 noon onwards
KINO-SINE (Philippine-German Cinema Relations) with Marathon of Workshop Films

Feb 12 Tue
4:30 p.m. @ the Videotheque: KINO-SINE (Philippine-German Cinema
Relations) with Selected Workshop Films by Roxlee, Raymond Red and others.
6:30 p.m. @ the Videotheque: KINO-SINE (Philippine-German Cinema
Relations) with Maybe I Can Give You Sex (Documentary Feature by Jürgen
Brüning and Rune Layumas)

Feb 20 Wed 1:30 p.m. (Cine Adarna 800-seat main cinema)
KINO-SINE (Philippine-German Cinema Relations) with Noli Me Tangere

Feb 28 Thu
4:30 p.m. @ the Videotheque: KINO-SINE (Philippine-German Cinema
Relations) with Maybe I Can Give You Sex (Documentary Feature by Jürgen
Brüning and Rune Layumas)

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KINO SINE. Philippine-German Cinema Relationships
Edited by Tilman Baumgärtel

Contributions by Jürgen Brüning, Ditsi Carolino, Lav Diaz, Nick Deocampo, Harun Farocki, Ulrich Gregor, Nan Goldin, Christoph Janetzko, Mark Meily, Ingo Petzke, Rosa von Praunheim, Raymond Red, Roxlee, Werner Schroeter, Bobby Suarez, Kidlat Tahimik, John Torres, Maria Vedder and Michael Wulfes

Download the book at www.goethe.de/kinosine (PDF, 6,5MB)

Beginning in the mid-1970's and continuing through the 1980's and into the 1990's, a number of German film directors, theorists and other movie people came to work or teach in the Philippines. Some came because the Goethe-Institut Manila had invited them for workshops and film presentations. Others came at their own expense because they were fascinated by Philippines, which– after the People Power revolution of 1986 that ousted the Marcos regime– exercised its own peculiar kind of magnetism on many Europeans. The workshops "the Germans" conducted and the film screenings they presented were in part responsible for the emergence of an alternative film scene in the Philippines that went on to garner recognition and awards at international film festivals in the 1980s.

This book deals with the "Sine-Kino-Connection". It documents the beginnings of the experimental and alternative film movement of the 1980s in the Philippines. And, at the same time, it deals with a part of German film history that few people in Germany are aware of. Today a new generation of independent Filipino filmmakers is emerging and once again garnering critical acclaim in the Philippines and abroad. This book provides an historical perspective on the earlier development of experimental, non-mainstream film in the Philippines.

Published by the Goethe-Institut Manila 2007
Exclusively distributed by Anvil Publishing, Pasig City, The Philippines
ISBN 978-971-27-2025-3
The book will be available at National Bookstores, Powerbooks and other bookstores in the Philippines.

The book will have its international launch at the Annual Southeast Asian Cinemas Conference in Jakarta, Indonesia, and at the Asian Hotshots Festival in Berlin, Germany. The Philippine launch will be at the University of the Philippines Film Institute.

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