Faceri is a night of film and spoken word co-presented by the Asian Film Archive and Ethos Books. The second of the Ethos Nights series, this event features three short films and four writers, tracing the lines of making and unmaking evoked by the etymology of the word “fashion”, from the old French “Façon,” meaning “a making, style, appearance, behavior”. Through material culture we style ourselves, but also create a living nexus of identity that people can don. This in turn stems from Latin “faceri”: the act of doing, making, creating; the act of birth itself. Through the interweaving of film and spoken word, Faceri will explore materiality, identity, and craft.
Programme:
🎥 In Pursuit of Temples in the Sky (Gagandeep Singh, 2021)
With live narration by Shawn Hoo
🎥 A million Threads (Thu Thu Shein, 2006)
With textual responses by Jennifer Anne Champion and Prasanthi Ram
followed by an improvised poem co-created with the audience by Shivram Gopinath
🎥 Roach Love (Jacen Tan, 2022)
With an exquisite corpse
This event will feature Shawn Hoo, Jennifer Anne Champion, Prasanthi Ram and Shivram Gopinath.
