Special Features
MaD 2011 Special Programmes
*CO2 Offset Pillow Fight
Fight to offset MaD 2011’s CO2
You know what? On average, each Hong Kong resident releases 13 tons of CO2 a year.
Offsetting this takes 34 trees and 40 years.
*Exchange Square
Say no to waste – barter your excess
Do you have an overstock of underused items at home? Bring them to our Exchange
Square and barter your excess!
Just bring back a useful and underused item, leave it at the Exchange Square and take
away another of use to you.
*MaD Movies
The Moving Power of Moving Images!
Bringing together mockumentaries of social vices and documentaries of dream chasers, MaD Movies takes you through a cinematic journey from the darkest to the brightest of humanity.
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From art house cinema to tackling world problems Having asked serious social questions through his avant-garde films, Cyrus FRISCH is aware of the limitations of art-house cinema. He is now developing the “World Problems Project”. The idea is that a group of international directors will be invited to make films on major world problems, and give a real impetus to constructive solutions. At MaD 2011, Cyrus will share his vision in using film as a medium of social critique, as well as stimulant for actual change.Documenting Chinese societies CHANG Chaowei
CHANG Chaowei was born in Tainan in the 1960s. In the late 1990s, he went to the UK for a master's degree in documentary making. He has been a journalist, underground concert organizer, café manager, editor, photographer, film director, critic and author of three books. He is currently the Production Supervisor of the documentary centre of suntv. In 2004, he co-founded CNEX Foundation Limited to trace the development of Chinese societies through 100 documentaries on 10 themes over 10 years.
CNEX has supported numerous outstanding Chinese documentaries, including 1428 (Best Documentary, Venice Film Festival 2009), KJ (receiving an unpredecented number of awards at Taipei Golden HorseAwards 2009), Hip Hop Storm (nomination for Best Documentary at Golden Horse Awards 2010), etc Warm-up Screening
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Movie: Blackwater Fever
A sick man drives in one go from the Western consumer paradise to a desert area somewhere. For sixty minutes he ignores the scenes that loom up on the side of the road. It’s not until he gets personally involved that he can no longer ignore them. In the final scene it becomes clear that they actually do affect him. But is it the violence that upsets him, or by his own inability to do anything about it?
Through a trick of fate a man in Argentina and a young woman in Amsterdam find themselves connected by telephone. They share a sense of horror with the world around them, from which their conversation provides a welcome escape. Despite the physical distance they develop a strong bond. But even the passion ignited between them can't avert a fatal ending.
#There will be an After-Screening Discussion on 15 Jan (7:15pm) with Director Cyrus FRISCH. Conducted in English.
Without any ethical boundaries the director searches for the ultimate, exciting (fiction) film. Using a willing group of social outcasts and mentally handicapped as actors, this film shows the exploitation of the sorrow of the actors and leaves the innocent viewer behind in despair. Is the viewer an innocent voyeur and the filmmaker an amoral sensational mediafigure, or is the viewer a passive accomplice?
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“I’m 34 now and still dancing. Probably I won’t stop until I win,” said Alun. This documentary records the period between 2007 and 2008 when Alun participated in the world break-dance contest in Paris. Another line of the story is about a new generation of hip-hop dance group on the street of Taipei called “Eight Children”. A documentary about two generations of hip-hop dancers and dreams.
 Movie: Children of God Korea / 2008 / 90 mins In Nepali with Chinese and English subtitles Director：YI Seung-jun Date & Time: 16/01 6:00pm
Jeonju 2009 International Film Festival, Best Documentary
Memphis International Film Festival
A former producer at HBO left his high salary and enviable life to travel through 26 countries on four continents with 5 pounds of clothes and 30 pounds of video equipment. From a mid-summer in Australia to an evening in Nepal before the revolution, Vietnam’s absurd traffic and Europe’s steep prices, this film explores the real meaning of backpacking. |
