Wong Kar Wai, Pedro Almodovar, David Lynch, Michel Gondry, old Woody Allen, Stanley Kubrick, old Eric Rohmer, Kieslowski, old Michael Haneke, Stan Brakhage, Maya Deren, Godard, Truffaut, old Hou Hsiao Hsien, old Kusturica, old Patrice Leconte, Julio Medem, Yasujiro Ozu, Alain Resnais, Jacques Rivette, Visconti, Wenders, Chan wook Park, Tarantino, Ernst Lubitsch, Michael Moore, Richard Linklater, Jarmusch, Chris Marker, Tom Tykwer, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Eastwood, old Scorsese, Miyazaki, Lars von Trier, Chantal Akerman, Agnes Varda, Jacques Demy, Spike Jonze, Chris Cunningham, Brothers Quay, Arnaud Desplechin, Miranda July, Sophia Coppola, Inarritu, ...
Awards
* Grand Jury Award - Best Feature Documentary nomination - Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival 2009 * The Vilcek Foundation (New York City) - profiled for the 2008 American Immigrant Filmmaker series* IFP Meet the Filmmaker series (Dec 2008)* Asian American Showcase (Chicago) - Audience Award Best Short for "The texture of time" (2003, 13min)
Festivals
Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival (VC Film Fest), Louis Vuitton Hawaii International Film Festival, Rhode Island International Film Festival, Chicago Asian American Showcase, Looptopia, Hibernarock, Independent Feature Project, etc...
Professional Affiliations
IFP Member (US), SACEM Member (France)
IMDB site: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1166065/
Kai's Interests
General
Making films (feature films, documentaries, video artist, music videos. shorts,...), taking pictures, movies, gigs, cultural events and discovering new designs/architectures ... including:---------------------------
Dance and Theater:
Pina Bausch, Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker, Regine Chopinot, Anna Tenta, Decoufle, Jiri Kylian, Meg Stuart, William Forsythe, Angelin Preljocaj, Noemie La France, Teatr Cogitatur, Eiko and Koma, Akram Kahn, merce cunningham, Ohad Naharin, Felix Ruckert, Akira Kasai, Quasar Dance Company, Wim Vandekeybus, Michele Anne De Mey, Carolyn Carlson, Nadj, Brice Leroux, ...
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Dan Flavin, Andy Goldsworthy, James Turell, Lee Bontecou, Guy
Bourdin, Cai Guo Qiang, Melik Ohanian, Gerhard Richter, Miro, Bill Viola, Richard Serra, Olafur Eliasson, Christian Boltanski, Man Ray, Matthew Barney, Gregory Crewdson, Sophie Calle, Ron Mueck, Sugimoto, Cartier-Bresson, Rothko, Takashi Murakami, Anne Holmes, Alexandra Loewe, Avisheh Mohsenin, Abigail Stern, Shirin Neshat, Letinsky,...
------------------------ Design and Architecture:
Tadao Ando, Gaudi, Mies VDR, Le Corbusier/Perriand, Nouvel, Kahn, Koolhaas, Piano, Noguchi, Eames, Stark, Saarinen, Gray...
Music
Lali Puna, Rachel's, Morr Music, Camera Obscura, The Clientele, Vitalic, Chat, Mojave 3, Alias, Andrew Bird, Angelo Badalamenti, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Arcade Fire, Astrud/Bebel/Joao Gilberto, Autour de Lucie, Belle and Sebastian, Beth Gibbons, Blonde Redhead, Boards of Canada, Brad Mehldau, Brian Eno, Caetano Veloso, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Maria Callas, Camille, Carlos d'Alessio, Cat Power, Cocorosie, Colder, Colleen, The Concretes, Cornelius, Daft Punk, The Cure, Damien Rice, Dionysos, The Divine Comedy, Scott Walker, Dominique A, Francoiz Breut, Elysian Fields, Emilie Simon, Erik Truffaz, Four Tet, Goldfrapp, Hot Chip, Mylo, Isobel Campbell, Jeanne Moreau, Jens Lekman, Mathieu Boogaerts, John Cage, Xenakis, György Ligeti, Stockhausen, Katerine, Keren Ann, Kronos Quartet, Elysian Quartet, LCD Soundsystem, Lhasa, Mice Parade, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Modest Mouse, Ms John Soda, Nina Simone, Rita Mitsouko, Serge Gainsbourg, Nino Rota, Alberto Iglesias, Georges Delerue, Michael Nyman, Steve Reich, Sylvain Chauveau, Nouvelle Vague, Orchestra Baobab, Buena Vista Social Club, Patricia barber, Pierre Henry, Philip Glass, Phoenix, Postal Service, The Robocop Kraus, Royksopp, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Sebastien Schuller, Gainsbourg, Sigur Ros, Stan Getz, Stereolab, Sufjan Stevens, SFA, The Free Design, Thievery Corporation, Tindersticks, Tosca, Vance Kelly, USE, Vincent Delerm, Vinicius de Moraes, Tom Waits, Gabriel Faure, Chopin, Schubert, Schumann, Zbigniew Preisner, Henry Purcell, Gustav Mahler, Gorecki, Ravel, Shostakovic, Boban Markovic, Seu Jorge, Air, Cibo Matto, Mono, Isolee, Stereototal, Devotchka, Slavic Soul Party, Vanessa and the O's, Diving with Andy, The Spinto Band, Clor, Eglantine Gouzy, The marshmallow kisses, Au revoir Simone, Peter Bjorn and John, Damien, Midlake, Scout Niblett, MonoTaxi, El Perro Del Mar, Arctic Monkeys, Justice, The long blondes, bat for lashes, taken by trees, clare and the reasons ...
Movies
Wong Kar Wai, Pedro Almodovar, David Lynch, Michel Gondry, Woody Allen, Stanley Kubrick, Eric Rohmer, Kieslowski, Michael Haneke, Stan Brakhage, Maya Deren, Godard, Truffaut, Hou Hsiao Hsien, Kusturica, Patrice Leconte, Julio Medem, Yasujiro Ozu, Alain Resnais, Jacques Rivette, Visconti, Wenders, Chan wook Park, Tarantino, Ernst Lubitsch, Michael Moore, Richard Linklater, Jarmusch, Chris Marker, Tom Tykwer, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Eastwood, Scorsese, Miyazaki, Lars von Trier, Chantal Akerman, Agnes Varda, Jacques Demy, Spike Jonze, Chris Cunningham, Brothers Quay, Arnaud Desplechin, Miranda July, Sophia Coppola, Inarritu, ...
Television
don't watch much of TV...
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Books
Murakami, Kundera, Nabokov, Duras, Balzac, Flaubert, Moravia, Modiano, Proust, Marjane Satrapi, www.destination2055.com, and one blog: http://www.hktripper.blogspot.com/...
"SOMEPLACE ELSE" (2008, 70min, USA/France) - A feature Documentary by Kai-Duc Luong
* Selected by the Independent Feature Project (IFP) "Meet the Filmmaker" series in December 2008 @ Facets, Chicago
* Honored by the Vilcek Foundation in November 2008, New York City
* Officially Selected for LOUIS VUITTON Hawaii International Film Festival in October 2008
* Officially Selected for academy award qualifying Rhode Island International Film Festival in August 2008
"SOMEPLACE ELSE" on National Public Radio NPR... Listen to it here
& was premiered at the Gene Siskel Film Center Chicago's premier arthouse theater, Chicago, IL
Excerpts from the NPR talk/review:
"It's great, we call it, "a personal documentary"... a documentary on Vance's career but it's also how the blues music and how things have affected Kai-Duc while he's been living here... It's reflective, it's poetic... those kind of reflections, sort of internal musings are juxtaposing with Vance Kelly who's a real showman and very raunchy... this film has a lot of character and personality..." (A. Cuddy CPR, T. Hugh CAAS)
Other reviews here:
"AFFECTING" "A TENDER PORTRAIT of one of Chicago's hardest-working bluesmen, an impressionistic meditation on place, belonging, and passion." (A. Mast, Flavorpill.com, Documentary/Film Event of The Week)
"ENGAGINGLY INFORMAL" "PERSONAL AND POETIC" (B. Scharres, Gene Siskel Film Center, Director of Programming)
"IT'S FRESH! I LIKED IT A LOT! AN ART DOCUMENTARY." (M. Saeed-Vafa, Documentary & Critical Studies Programs, Columbia College)
"To see Chicago life in motion through the lens of great cinema is BREATHTAKING."
"Life is about change and change is what you make it."
"Someplace Else is PACKED WITH snippets of GREAT SONGS and not all blues." (Clara Freeman, Chicago Independent Bulletin)
"Someplace else is SOMETHING ELSE in Filmmaking!" (The Vilcek Foudation, NYC)
Texturalistically inclined soul loving to watch indie Fs, listen to alternative Ms, catch contemporary dance Ps, wandering in modern art Ms, travelling in unknown Ts, taking random Ps...
Free spirited agent of the mind, I like to be aware of things surrounding the near, the close, the not so distant, the remote and the far away in all matters...
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SOMEPLACE ELSE A personal musical documentary (2008, 70min, Color)
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!!! PART MUSICAL DOCU, PART FILM JOURNAL, SOMETHING ELSE !!!
!!! Weaving the STORY, the CINEMATOGRAPHY, and LYRICAL CONTENT of the MUSIC
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!!! In a REFRESHING & POETIC way, TRANSFORMING the VISUAL EXPERIENCE
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!!! of the DOCU into a RHYTHMIC and CAPTIVATING journey of many FACETS !!!
SOMEPLACE ELSE is currently going through the festival circuit motion across the globe
SOMEPLACE ELSE: A different kind of musical documentary feature film by Kai-Duc Luong & Avisheh Mohsenin
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!!! ENJOY my other VIDEOS for singers on MYSPACE Kai's FILMS
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!!! DAMIEN (RECORDMAKERS) "The frogs" !!!
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!!! MARISSA NADLER (PEACEFROG) "No surprises" and !!!
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!!! CHAT (CAPITOL) "Mademoiselle entretien" !!!
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I would like to THANK YOU ALL for the LOVELY SUPPORT ON THE VIDEOS :))) !!
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE FROGS was top music video at one point on youtube, top featured song on myspace.fr for a long while also, and made the rounds of MTV FR/UK, Europe2 TV and all kinds of channels in Europe!!
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NO SURPRISES is having a great life of its own on youtube without any kind of publicity!!!
Who I'd like to meet: Fun, outgoing, nice, artsy people, comfortable with themselves and aware of things happening around the world who enjoy everything that makes life so enjoyable!
ALICE - Featured video on Capitol's youtube website
I just uploaded my new single No No No to my Myspace page, come to my page and listen afterwards, if you like it, you can head over to iTunes and donwload it.
The 13th Annual Hollywood Film Festival is now open for submissions in the following genres: Features (drama & comedy), Docs, Shorts, and Music Videos!
Visit Hollywood FILM Festival, Hollywood COMEDY Film Festival, Hollywood HORROR Film Festival and Hollywood MUSIC VIDEO Awards to submit. http://www.hollywoodfestival.com
P.S. Hustle and Flow’s Craig Brewer was discovered at the HFF!
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We would love both your videos to be submitted to our festival! Please go to http://www.hollywoodfestival.com to submit and let us know if you have any questions.
Ever wondered what to do in the event of a nuclear threat?
A while ago I found stuff that inspired me to make this film:
Living Under the Shadow of the Nuclear Umbrella
Both artistic (ensure you get the background music!) and educational, it primarily comprises official British government civil defence advice.
Though source materials are quite aged, much remains relevant today.
I encourage all to visit the YouTube page to learn more (Show support! Rate! Comment!) and responsibly circulate as widely as possible, here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaIim3Rj7L4
If you like my creations and want to support me for "who's next contest" please check this link and after click twice on your favorite picture and vote!!!!!!!!!!!!it takes few minutes!!!deadline tonight!thank you so much!
hihi dear kai, havent had a chance to respond to your message! did u manage to submit one of your favorite video? the video was made by a fan! hope ur well! its v sunny here!!!
Good to have you as a friend! So great to see the internet in action this way, shortening distances between people.
I hope all's well with you and that you enjoy checking out my web site some time.
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