Date:17:00‐, April 3(Thu.)，2008
Venue:Room 207 on the 2nd floor of CSEAS East building
http://www.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/about/access_en.html
Film: Mababangong Bangungot (The Perfumed Nightmare)/1977/Philippines
Director: Kidlat Tahimik
Language: English and Tagalog with English subtitles
Length: 91 min
References:
(English)
http://www.library.american.edu/subject/media/aufderheide/perfumed.html
http://www.unomaha.edu/jrf/perfumenght.htm
（Japanese）
"The Search For and Reconstruction of the Filipino Identity"
http://repository.tufs.ac.jp/handle/10108/23680
http://repository.tufs.ac.jp/handle/10108/23684
We will show "The Perfumed Nightmare" directed and performed by Kidlat Tahimik, a Filipino director. This is the first film by Tahimik, which made his name worldly famous.
In the film, Kidlat Tahimik, a jeepney driver in a small village in Northern Luzon, dreams of one day going to the US to become an astronaut. One day, he meets an American Businessman who promises to take him to the US. On their way, they stop at Paris, taking along a jeepney from the Philippines. He is asked to run the chewing-gum-ball machine business owned by the American Businessman. The experience in Europe gradually makes Kidlat disillusioned about his idealized images on the developed world as well as his dream.
The original film was shot in 8 mmillimeter with low cost. The film is Kidat Tahimik's first movie, and it is said that he was learning about film making as he was shooting. The film won the Berlin Film Festival International Critics award in 1977. The film was highly evaluated by Francis Coppola later and made Kidlat Tahimik well known.
We will invite Dr.Roland Tolentino, Visiting Research Fellow, CSEAS, as a commentator.