Hanoi DocFest 2016

Quest x Doclab Short Film Competition, in its first year running, is a collaborative effort of Quest Festival and Hanoi Doclab, sponsored by Goethe Institute. This year we celebrated The Legend of Son Tinh and Thuy Tinh, asking filmmakers to choose any element that is directly or indirectly incorporated in the Legend and shoot a short film on that subject. Best 10 films have been screened at Quest Festival, awarding filmmakers with double entry to the Festival. A panel of 4 judges from Quest Festival and Hanoi Doclab have been working together to decide on the best projects and it is time now to reveal the winners of main prizes.

Panel discussion on how Vietnamese and Indonesian independent documentary and experimental filmmakers create and pursue their own paths.
With filmmakers: Trương Minh Quý, Tạ Minh Đức, Phạm Ngọc Lân, Phạm Thu Hằng, Trần Phương Thảo, Nguyễn Thị Thắm; and Arkipel’s curator Hafiz Rancajale .
MC: Young filmmaker and screenwriter Đỗ Văn Hoàng.

Trần Ngọc Hiếu in dialogue with Nguyễn Trinh Thi on the representation of landscape in her films, with a focus on “Letters from Panduranga” (2015).

(Presented by Jakarta’s ARKIPEL International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival)

Film is one of the mediums in art most directly related to the issue of ‘archiving’ because of the inevitability of the medium itself that is recording and representing ‘social events’ and then watched by the spectators. A frame in film certainly has different background, where the motif of the director becomes critical in framing the reality; it can become a fiction, documentary, video art and experimental film. Therefore, the historical relation in film or culture of cinema hardly can be separated. Film will always be present as the ‘face’ of its time.

The films in this program are deliberately chosen to present interpretations of history and collective memory of society in the frame of cinema. There are many ways created by artists to interpret history, either through event, socio-political context, or of visual productions presented by its era. The visual productions are redefined in contemporary context. And they critically recorded the past where the presence of contemporaneity presented in broader sense. so it does not lose its context.

(Presented by Jakarta’s ARKIPEL International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival)

Film is one of the mediums in art most directly related to the issue of ‘archiving’ because of the inevitability of the medium itself that is recording and representing ‘social events’ and then watched by the spectators. A frame in film certainly has different background, where the motif of the director becomes critical in framing the reality; it can become a fiction, documentary, video art and experimental film. Therefore, the historical relation in film or culture of cinema hardly can be separated. Film will always be present as the ‘face’ of its time.

The films in this program are deliberately chosen to present interpretations of history and collective memory of society in the frame of cinema. There are many ways created by artists to interpret history, either through event, socio-political context, or of visual productions presented by its era. The visual productions are redefined in contemporary context. And they critically recorded the past where the presence of contemporaneity presented in broader sense. so it does not lose its context.