The
International Silent Film Festival Manila (ISFFM), renowned as the first and oldest silent film festival in Southeast Asia is having its 12th installment this 2018. Founded in 2007, the festival was a unique collaborative initiative led by the
Goethe-Institut Philippinen together with the
Japan Foundation - Manila, and the
Instituto Cervantes de Manila. The festival has grown as it continues to celebrate arts and cultural heritage through international silent films with live music, scored by Filipino artists. This year, there are eight participating countries to celebrate yet another year of intercultural collaboration----
Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, U.S. and the Philippines.
Happening from
August 30 to September 2, the ISFFM is partnering with
SM Megamall to screen
eight (8) silent films, to be live-scored by local musicians. The participating embassies and cultural institutions include:
the Film Development Council of the Philippines, the Goethe-Institut Philippinen, the Philippine-Italian Association, Japan Foundation-Manila, Instituto Cervantes de Manila and the Embassies of the United States of America, Austria and France.
ADMISSION IS FREE.
GOETHE-INSTITUT AT THE ISFF 2018
The Goethe-Institut will be showing the German silent film, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari), this September 1, 4pm, at the 12th International Silent Film Festival 2018. The film is a 1920s horror film directed by Robert Wiene which is about the hypnotist Dr. Caligari who uses a somnambulist, Cesare, to commit murders.
SYNOPSIS
Dubbed as “the first true horror film”, Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari tells of a mad doctor who is being suspected of sending a reawakened corpse on a killing spree. It is later revealed that he is the director of an asylum for the insane, where our protagonist finds out that the doctor has obsessions far darker and more sinister than he had imagined.
Das Cabinet is considered the quintessential work of German expressionist cinema and favors a fantastical and graphic visual style instead of a naturalistic one. The sets feature structures and landscapes that lean and twist in unusual angles with sharp-pointed forms bathed in striking contrasts of shadows and light. The film also helped introduce techniques such as the twist ending and the unreliable narrator to the language of narrative film.
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari will be accompanied live by the Kontemporaryong Gamelan Pilipino from the University of the Philippines - Diliman. Founded by Prof. Edru Abraham of the College of Arts and Letters, UP Diliman, the band draws inspiration from this ancient and profound source nurtured and sustained by the depth, wealth and cultural diversity of the Philippines and her Asian roots. Widely identified by its acronym Kontra-GaPi, the group strives to express music and kindred arts from indigenous well-springs, reaping from the people and giving back to them in new form “as magical as the moonlight and constantly changing as water”.
You can get free tickets to our film here.
Schedule of ALL Screenings
August 30 (Thursday)
08:00 pm ITALY - Rapsodia Satanica (Satanic Rhapsody)
August 31 (Friday)
07:00 pm PHILIPPINES - This is Not A Lost Film
09:00 pm FRANCE - La Passion de Jeanne D'Arc
September 1 (Saturday)
04:00 pm GERMANY - Das Cabinet des Dr.Caligari (The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari)
06:00 pm JAPAN - A Straightforward Boy
08:00 pm USA - Our Hospitality
September 2 (Sunday)
05:00 pm SPAIN - Frivolinas
07:30 pm AUSTRIA - Die kleine Veronika
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