Saigon Experimental V

Saigon Experimental is back with its 5th edition featuring 24 short films by Vietnamese and international filmmakers, which will be divided into 4 thematic programs. This year’s event will be held at a cinema within a hotel, where audience can choose to watch any program of their linking and decide who they will share the room with as each room can accommodate up to 15 people. The hotel-cinema charges an hourly rate from 60,000 VND to 90,000 VND per room.

FIFTH SAIGON EXPERIMENTAL PROGRAM:

Program 1: Light, motion and mass

• Gloria Chung – The Photoplay Obeys the Laws of the Mind (USA 2020)
• Bruno Moreno & Renato Sircilli – Cinema for the Dead (Brazil 2023)
• Abigail Smith – thread (USA 2022)
• Michael Lyons – Parts (Japan 2023)
• Charles de Agustin – Interior Shot (USA 2023)
• Jessi Ali Lin & Hsin-Yu Chen – Semiotics of the Home (USA 2022)
• SJ.Ramir – I Found Water (New Zealand)

Program 2: tiềm thức khuya mới biết đêm dài / my unconscious woke up sensing the light

• Francesco Montagner – Asterión (Czech Republic 2022)
• Felix Klee – Homesick Lungs (Germany 2021)
• Philip Ullman – What Dying Feels Like (Netherlands 2021)
• Yuri Muraoka – Transparent, I am. (Japan 2020)
• Nicolas Graux & Quý Trương Minh – Porcupine (Belgium 2023)

Program 3: shhhhhhh..

• Riar Rizaldi – Neonatal Unit (Indonesia 2021)
• Nonoho Suzuki – ABURIDASHI Assortment: Video Letters written in invisible ink. (Japan 2022)
• Keng U – Remote (Macau)
• Carla Andrade – Amarillo atlántico (Spain 2022)
• Atefeh Kheirabadi & Mehrad Sepahnia – Blick (Germany 2023)

Program 4: vitcon_online

• Hong Anh Nguyen – GAP | GẶP (Vietnam 2023)
• Uniqueness – Omnipotent Resolution (N/A)
• José Miguel Barriga – Impulsive purchases through Aliexpress (Chile 2023)
• Ika Schwander & Lizzy Deacon – Precautionary Measure (Netherlands)
• Jan Otto Ertesvåg – Busy (Norway 2021)
• Arlin Golden – Back Yard (USA 2019)
• Linh Manh Tong – TikTok Rollie Viet Mix MV (Vietnam 2021)