Tuesday, October 10, 2006 'Kahon' exhibited at End Frame video art project
VIDEO artist and independent filmmaker Richard Legaspi had his work "Kahon" exhibited in the recently concluded End Frame Video Art Project.
The festival ran from September 25 to 28 at the North Court, Power Plant Mall, and from September 30 to October 4 at The Cubicle Art Gallery, an artist-run creative space located at C. Raymundo corner Stella Maris Streets, Maybunga, Pasig City.
Visual Pond co-founder and art critic Clarissa Chikiamco informed Legaspi that his entry "Kahon is among those selected for exhibition by the End Frame curatorial team. As it falls in the One Minute category, it will also be sent to The One Minutes organization in the Netherlands to compete in their annual awards."
All one-minute video artworks entered in End Frame will also be eligible for screening on Salto TV, a Dutch television channel, late this year or early 2007 and for the Olympic One Minutes exhibit to take place most probably in the Millennium Art Museum in Beijing in 2008 right before the Summer Olympics.
End Frame curatorial team member Fatima Lasay made special mention of "Kahon" in the sense that it is "one work that placed special emphasis on the viewer's role/position in constructing meaning."
Chikiamco, along with Visual Pond co-founders Rica Estrada, Marinella Andrea Mina, and Francesca Tañada, explained that the End Frame Video Art "project began with the hopes of providing Philippine video art practitioners with a venue for their _expression and also as a means of exposing more people to the medium of video art."
The Cubicle Art Gallery owner Ronald Caringal believes that the End Frame Video Art "project is a perfect example of how the simplest of ideas become instruments of change when you find people that believe in you."
As an independent filmmaker, Legaspi previously served as assistant director and production designer to 14th Ricky Lee Scriptwriting Workshop batchmates Grace Orbon ("Dead Letter"), Anna Isabelle Matutina ("Ikasiyam na Palapag" and "Puwang"), Seymour Barros Sanchez ("Lababo"), and John Wong ("Manyika"). He also played a key role as production design staff in Pam Miras' "Blood Bank."
Legaspi, who currently teaches at the UE College of Fine Arts in Caloocan, also completed another one-minute film "Pintuan," a finalist in the .MOV International Digital Film Festival Smart Cuts 60-second short film competition held at SM City Cebu last year.
"Pintuan, while not chosen for End Frame, is also eligible for The One Minutes Awards and will also be sent to represent the Philippines," Chikiamco said.
Legaspi also won honorable mention for his poetic short "Makatang Luneta" at the 2006 Cinemadali Short Film Competition sponsored by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) and the Film Academy of the Philippines (FAP) in celebration of the National Arts Month.
Aside from Legaspi, the other artists featured at End Frame were Poklong Anading ("Dribbling Colors"), Adjani G. Arumpac ("Ab Ovo"), Ramon A. Bautista ("The Persistence of Vision"), Jasmin Bernardino ("One Becomes Two"), Bea Camacho ("Enclose"), Dante Luel Dizon ("Light Headed"), Luis Thadeus D. Ermita?o ("Hulikotekan v. 2.1"), Rodel Gadapan ("Glimpse of Reality"), Miguel Gonzaga ("Premonition"), Antoinette H. Jadaone ("It feels so good to be alive"), Mitch Garcia and Ian Madrigal ("RPG II: Culture Shocked for Culture Sucks"), Kacey Pamintuan ("Freakshow"), Claro J. Ramirez ("Bandera"), Gary Ross Pastrana ("Gravity Builds a Poem"), Andrei F. Salud ("Banyo Drum Solo"), Jevijoe Vitug ("Classical Scandal"), and Rembrandt Vocalan ("Swimming Around").
"There is perhaps no greater exponent of the multi-sensory experience of contemporary art than the video artist," Ateneo Art Gallery curator Ramon E.S. Lerma said. "In an age where the boundaries between art, science and technology are constantly being breached - and the terms of their relationship renegotiated - it is very satisfying to note how Filipino practitioners of this art form are making serious inroads in the field - their achievements not simply in synch with, but surpassing the level of imagination and critical discourse of their international peers," he added.
The End Frame Video Art Project was presented by Visual Pond and Power Plant Mall in partnership with the Cubicle Art Gallery, The One Minutes Foundation, and the Listening Group of Companies (Listening in Style, D-Cinema in Style and Digital Cinema in Style) and with support from the Ateneo Art Gallery. (Press release)
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