Hong Kong's CineFan Club
May/Jun/Jul Program

The CineFan's new program includes three categories Hong Kong's CineFan Program has released its new program for the months of May/Jun/Jul which will include the screening of several films. The program is focusing on the films of Finnish film director and screenwriter Aki Kaurismäki. Several of Director Kaurismäki's film will be screened in different locations. The second major part will screen films from the time of the phycedelic cinema and also included is Godfrey Reggio’s The Qatsi Trilogy, and lastly films from the 1960s and 1970s phycedelic era will be screened. CineFan May/Jun/Jul Program Imbued with the melancholy lyricism of Edward Hopper, Aki Kaurismäki furnishes the humble homes and working spaces with Scandinavian minimalism and a colour palette at once muted and vibrant, where the loneliness of the working class collides with bittersweet tenderness. Retro radios, vintage Cadillacs, and local bands all conspire to tell stories about beautiful losers and bring out a full range of their shrouded but piercing emotions, transforming into his idiosyncratic motifs that emulate the red kettle of his revered Ozu Yasujiro. Featuring the films of Aki Kaurismäki A former Catholic monk and artist Godfrey Reggio’s critique of technology is not a message, but manifests as cinematic method in the form of non-fiction and wordless, visual narrative. Between poetry and discourse, and via torrents of images transported through Philip Glass’ music, cinema becomes, in Reggio’s own terms, a ‘sacrament’ directly confronting the technicised human world by firing it up. In his unique universe, images of nature, urbanity, human conditions, space technology, militarism and consumer culture all share the same image space nonhierarchically, articulating what Reggio describes as the ‘unity imperatives’ of technological society. They blend into one another and juxtapose without any plot function. Introducing Godfrey Reggio ‘One pill makes you smaller, and one pill makes you small. And the ones that mother gives you don’t do anything at all...’. Made popular by the widespread use of psychedelic substance among young people during the counterculture movement of the 60s and 70s, psychedelic cinema emerged as part of the artistic revolution involving music, art, literature and philosophy. Psychedelic, which literally means ‘mind-manifesting,’ can just be applied to an aesthetic style or an affective-sensorial influence, conjuring an altered state of subjective reality and hallucinogenic experiences that reflect the revelation of our mind. Blurring the lines between dream and reality, these films often use visual images or unconventional narrative techniques to alter the viewers' sense of spatiotemporal perception. Phychedelia - Cinema as a Fever Dream Please click on button belwo to go to our forum for more information and for a link to the Official Website of the CineFan Club where you can find the complete schedule of the film screenings, and find further information.
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