Sonatrope Film Festival

17 - 25 August 2007 @ KLUUBB

KLUUBB
14/F, Foo Tak Building
367 Hennessy Road
Wanchai, HK

Sonatrope is an independent film festival in Hong Kong featuring recent films related to contemporary musical practices. With selections that traverse global, regional and local communities, alternative histories and multiple issues, Sonatrope aims to provide a platform for divergent and compelling films that focus on the various social, political and cultural dimensions of musical genres motivated by youth.

The festival’s emphasis on punk and hip-hop seeks to highlight the significant communities that are formed around the love of music in an increasingly globalized era, revealing the influence, interpretation, and critical re-imagining of commercial culture. Providing a glimpse into underground cultures, commercialized ethos, global hip-hop and punk movements, alternative community building and performance, the films further explore the redeployment of these genres into new social spaces, serving as platforms for multiple voices and for the challenging of how these genres have become defined.

opening:

Friday, 17 August 2007
9pm, $40 at the door
Screening: Squatterpunk (Dir: Khavn, 2007, Philippines)
Music: Spermatic Chord, ST, Elle Est ChiNOISE, New Pony, Kawaki

www.sonatrope.com