The Onion Cellar presents in collaboration with Hanoi DocLab a screening of a documentary on Canadian cartoonist SETH, SETH’S DOMINION (official HCMC premiere) + VIETNAMESE INDIE ANIMATION SHOWCASE (line-up of this showcase to be announced)

19.30 - 10/4/2016
Ca Phe Thu Bay
19B Pham Ngoc Thach - District 3 - HCMC

DONATION (on the door)
50,000 VND
30,000 VND (with valid student ID)

(donations will go towards the filmmaker)

Event #3 as part of The Onion Cellar's new Sad & Beautiful World edition [http://ow.ly/Vo0jT]


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SETH’S DOMINION 

Dir – Luc Chamberland
Canada / 42 minutes / 2014 
Languages: English, with subtitles in Vietnamese

Trailer - https://youtu.be/QXRhUsAyp5o

The film will be preceded by two short films directed by Luc Chamberland based on the work of Seth: THE DEATH OF KAO-KUK and THE GREAT MACHINE 

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The things that happen in our lives, we drag them forward with us forever. (Luc Chamberland)

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Canadian cartoonist and comic book dream-weaver Seth has long been one of those most interesting figures in his medium. Though he employs a simple and cartoony style, Seth’s work is fearlessly personal, autobiographical, and often even existential. 

SETH’S DOMINION - Luc Chamberland's filmic celebration of the artist - is narrated by Seth through a series of interviews and excerpts from his diary, but the style of the film changes constantly. At times his stories play out through puppet shows, at times through oddly archaic montages borrowing film language of the past, and most often through beautifully recreated animations of some of his most personal and profound work. The result is a wonderfully creative little doc that honors and embodies it’s subject like few others.

(Phil Brown for Dorkshelf) 

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This film is more about all of our lives. It starts, of course, with a guy at his desk, drawing, but it quickly becomes about the little details in our everyday lives and about how the seemingly mundane moments we live are actually not so insignificant: they are all important, intense and magical. 

The film is also very much about our memory. The longer we live, the more memories we accumulate, and the baggage of these memories becomes greater every day. How do we deal with it? Most of the time we don’t notice that memories are piling up, pointing to the many moments that have marked us throughout our lives.

(Luc Chamberland in an interview with The TFS)

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Seth's words often carry deep philosophical meaning or are about melancholy remembrances of times past and never to come again. 

He’s a man seemingly desperate to hold on to the past, but also seems as if he would be out of place there.

(Adam A. Donaldson for We Got This Covered)