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-Rosalie Zerrudo
Project Coordinator of Enigmata Creative Circle
Enigmata Creative Circle, Inc. is a voluntary collective of multi-disciplinary artists, focusing on eco-peace biodiversity art education through popular media grassroots community in the island.
The fifth year project in partnership with the Department of Education is an offshoot of environmental education Earth Camps held every year for the children, youth, and mostly women teachers.† Its on-going project is GAME for Children (Grassroots Advancing Multi-media Eco-education) sponsored by Arts Network Asia, Singapore which focuses on creative community enterprise as voice of children, production of Kinamiguin Children's Biodiversity Pictionary and environmental animation plugs made by Camiguin Children.† "Islakwatsa", New Media Playground for Children is co-sponsored by National Commission for Culture and the Arts, Philippines.†
Enigmata organized pioneering works, such as†contemporary theater road show in schools as a story telling strategy on biodiversity conservation, which conducts Earth Camps, production of short film and slides, biodiversity concerts, and other creative workshops.† The latest experiments include functional installation art using recycled materials, such as bottle glass walls mosaic, wall tapestry, and contemporary Okkil art revival in product development for local creative enterprise, using "super bayong " campaign for "plastic-free Camiguin,".†
As member of the Camiguin Tourism Association, Enigmata organized pioneering eco-cultural tours for ecotourism students, ecotour guiding practicum, green forum, cultural shows, eco workshops for ecotourism front liners.
As social enterprise, Enigmata maintains a low-impact eco-friendly treehouse eco-lodge cum, training venue†to help in the sustainability of†the projects in Camiguin.
Grassroots Cinema Center aims to promote the storytelling by women by connecting them with necessary tools and with each other. The tools will be in the medium of film and video and the training would include technical as well as artistic assistance. We aim to carry these voices, perspectives and sensibilities of women for advocacy to change the conditions of poverty and violence in various regions in Asia. The artistic projects will serve to empower women with often needed technical and economic support. Using film and video as tools of mediation, narrative and images will reach out and be shared. Through the sharing of stories, women will be encouraged to independently raise their voices.
Watch Videos Made by Children of Camiguin Island!
About us
Grassroos Cinema Center stands by the commitment to provide a new venue for individual women in Asia to produce a personal/independent films with digital video. Film and art have always been essential in molding individual and social consciousness. We will work and focus on the region of Asia with its diverse history of tragedy and pain. We believe that the mediation of individual experiences and creative expressions have the potential to create or point to new forms of modernity, methods of creative expression, and empowerment.
Past Project
Aims / Objective / goals of project
1. Promote the circulation of women’s voices in social media in Asia
Bringing forth women’s voices in media is the first and foremost goal to be achieved through our organization. In doing so, we aim to empower women and accelerate women‘s influence in society, and to have control of their lives.†
2. Create a compatible and sustainable institution that supports film and video production locally.
We plan to create self-sustainable centers by working with local women artists, filmmakers and NGOs and continually support the art and film production of the women in the region.
3. Innovate the Film and Video art scene in Asian region.
By supporting women in a long run with education, funding, and equipment, we aim to promote the Media Art scene in Asian region by connecting women with the Film and Video medium.
Bringing forth women’s voices in media is the first and foremost goal to be achieved through our organization. In doing so, we aim to empower women and accelerate women‘s influence in society, and to have control of their lives.†
2. Create a compatible and sustainable institution that supports film and video production locally.
We plan to create self-sustainable centers by working with local women artists, filmmakers and NGOs and continually support the art and film production of the women in the region.
3. Innovate the Film and Video art scene in Asian region.
By supporting women in a long run with education, funding, and equipment, we aim to promote the Media Art scene in Asian region by connecting women with the Film and Video medium.
Projected output of project (Short-term Course of Action; Two years period, 2008-2009)
-Set up centers / local offices in main cities of Asian countries
-Set up branch bases for the communities in rural areas.
-Provide Necessary Equipment
-Community Based Production
-Community Based Screening
-Networking with Local and International Universities, Artists, and Scholars
-Film Library
-Create Library for Film/Art Books (physical)
-Set up branch bases for the communities in rural areas.
-Provide Necessary Equipment
-Community Based Production
-Community Based Screening
-Networking with Local and International Universities, Artists, and Scholars
-Film Library
-Create Library for Film/Art Books (physical)
Dissemination of Information (Long-term Course of Action; 3 to 5 years period / 2010-2012)
-Exhibition and Distribution of the Film around the world
-Create Archive
-Internet for publicity and other means
-Create Archive
-Internet for publicity and other means
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Our Co-directors
-Rosalie Zerrudo
Project Coordinator of Enigmata Creative Circle
Enigmata Creative Circle, Inc. is a voluntary collective of multi-disciplinary artists, focusing on eco-peace biodiversity art education through popular media grassroots community in the island.
The fifth year project in partnership with the Department of Education is an offshoot of environmental education Earth Camps held every year for the children, youth, and mostly women teachers.† Its on-going project is GAME for Children (Grassroots Advancing Multi-media Eco-education) sponsored by Arts Network Asia, Singapore which focuses on creative community enterprise as voice of children, production of Kinamiguin Children's Biodiversity Pictionary and environmental animation plugs made by Camiguin Children.† "Islakwatsa", New Media Playground for Children is co-sponsored by National Commission for Culture and the Arts, Philippines.†
Enigmata organized pioneering works, such as†contemporary theater road show in schools as a story telling strategy on biodiversity conservation, which conducts Earth Camps, production of short film and slides, biodiversity concerts, and other creative workshops.† The latest experiments include functional installation art using recycled materials, such as bottle glass walls mosaic, wall tapestry, and contemporary Okkil art revival in product development for local creative enterprise, using "super bayong " campaign for "plastic-free Camiguin,".†
As member of the Camiguin Tourism Association, Enigmata organized pioneering eco-cultural tours for ecotourism students, ecotour guiding practicum, green forum, cultural shows, eco workshops for ecotourism front liners.
As social enterprise, Enigmata maintains a low-impact eco-friendly treehouse eco-lodge cum, training venue†to help in the sustainability of†the projects in Camiguin.
-Soni Kum (Korea/Japan)
Soni Kum was born and raised in Tokyo, Japan as a third generation Korean. She received M.F.A. in Film and Video from California Institute of the Arts in the United States. She is currently a PhD candidate at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts. Her video works and performance were shown in various spaces around the world.
Soni Kum was born and raised in Tokyo, Japan as a third generation Korean. She received M.F.A. in Film and Video from California Institute of the Arts in the United States. She is currently a PhD candidate at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts. Her video works and performance were shown in various spaces around the world.
-Jane Jin Kaisen (Denmark/Korea)
Jane Jin Kaisen (1980) is a visual artist working interdisciplinary with film, video, performance, text, and photography. Using reversed strategies and constructing multi-layered and non-linear narratives, her work attempts to complicate notions of subjectivity, discourse, and ideology.
Jane Jin is educated at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and is currently a Fulbright scholar at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program in New York.
Jane Jin’s work deals with questions concerning the impacts of international adoption and its relationship to imperialism and colonial amnesia in a global and Scandinavian perspective. Relating international adoption to migration politics, the effects of neo liberal capitalist expansion, and to how history and memory is negotiated, she has investigated the relationships between knowledge and power and between subjectivity, representation, and privilege. Her work is deeply invested in how language, ritual, and symbols may work as tools and metaphors in understanding amnesia, trauma, and agency.
Jane Jin is co-founder of Grassroots Cinema Center for Women of Asia, co-founder of the collective Chamber of Public Secrets, broadcasting independent news on tv.-tv, a non-profit TV station in Denmark and organizers of “Made In Video” International Festival of Video Journalism in Copenhagen.
She was co-curator of “International Adoptee Gathering Exhibition” in Seoul 2004 & 2007, co-founder of the artist group UFOlab (Unidentified Foreign Object LABoratory), part of the exhibition collective “Orientity Exhibition, and co-founder of Grassroots Cinema for Women in Asia.
Jane Jin has performed at festivals in Denmark, The Faeroe Islands, South Korea, Indonesia (National Gallery 2005-6), China (798 Factory, Beijing), and Hong Kong. She is initiator of the ongoing performance project “24 hours” which has taken place in a number of countries.
Selected Exhibitions and Film Screenings: Visions from the Periphery, Kyunghee University Art Museum, “La Centrale”, Montreal, “Exquisite Crisis and Encounters, N.Y.U. New York, “Traces”, The National Museum of Photography, Copenhagen, “UFOlab Banana Power” Gwangju Biennale 2006, “Connection Barents”, Norway, “Rethinking Nordic Colonialism”, Faeroe Islands, “Our Adoptee, Our Alien”, South Korea, “Orientity,”Kyoto Art Center and Hong Kong Fringe Club, “Accent” Roskilde Museum of Contemporary Art & The Nordic House, Krakov, Poland, “Accentuation”,Malm¯ Intl. Film Festival, Hong Kong Intl. Short Film Festival, “Skin Deep”, Occularis, Brooklyn & in Echo Park Film Center, L.A, Independent Media, Bandits-Mages Art Video and Multi Media Festival, Bourges (FR).
Jane Jin Kaisen (1980) is a visual artist working interdisciplinary with film, video, performance, text, and photography. Using reversed strategies and constructing multi-layered and non-linear narratives, her work attempts to complicate notions of subjectivity, discourse, and ideology.
Jane Jin is educated at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and is currently a Fulbright scholar at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program in New York.
Jane Jin’s work deals with questions concerning the impacts of international adoption and its relationship to imperialism and colonial amnesia in a global and Scandinavian perspective. Relating international adoption to migration politics, the effects of neo liberal capitalist expansion, and to how history and memory is negotiated, she has investigated the relationships between knowledge and power and between subjectivity, representation, and privilege. Her work is deeply invested in how language, ritual, and symbols may work as tools and metaphors in understanding amnesia, trauma, and agency.
Jane Jin is co-founder of Grassroots Cinema Center for Women of Asia, co-founder of the collective Chamber of Public Secrets, broadcasting independent news on tv.-tv, a non-profit TV station in Denmark and organizers of “Made In Video” International Festival of Video Journalism in Copenhagen.
She was co-curator of “International Adoptee Gathering Exhibition” in Seoul 2004 & 2007, co-founder of the artist group UFOlab (Unidentified Foreign Object LABoratory), part of the exhibition collective “Orientity Exhibition, and co-founder of Grassroots Cinema for Women in Asia.
Jane Jin has performed at festivals in Denmark, The Faeroe Islands, South Korea, Indonesia (National Gallery 2005-6), China (798 Factory, Beijing), and Hong Kong. She is initiator of the ongoing performance project “24 hours” which has taken place in a number of countries.
Selected Exhibitions and Film Screenings: Visions from the Periphery, Kyunghee University Art Museum, “La Centrale”, Montreal, “Exquisite Crisis and Encounters, N.Y.U. New York, “Traces”, The National Museum of Photography, Copenhagen, “UFOlab Banana Power” Gwangju Biennale 2006, “Connection Barents”, Norway, “Rethinking Nordic Colonialism”, Faeroe Islands, “Our Adoptee, Our Alien”, South Korea, “Orientity,”Kyoto Art Center and Hong Kong Fringe Club, “Accent” Roskilde Museum of Contemporary Art & The Nordic House, Krakov, Poland, “Accentuation”,Malm¯ Intl. Film Festival, Hong Kong Intl. Short Film Festival, “Skin Deep”, Occularis, Brooklyn & in Echo Park Film Center, L.A, Independent Media, Bandits-Mages Art Video and Multi Media Festival, Bourges (FR).
Alma Quinto
ALMA QUINTO is a visual artist and art educator who collaborates with marginalized women and children in her art projects to empower them through their stories, dreams and art. She has worked with young female survivors of sexual abuse from CRIBS Foundation since 1995 and with similar groups like the Bantay Bata 163, prostituted children of FORGE Cebu, the Philippine Association for Citizens with Developmental and Learning Disabilities (PACDLD), evacuees from Bicol and Maguindanao, Japanese Filipino children and their mothers from DAWN, women from MAKALAYA, abused street children from Tahanan Sta. Luisa, and with the Itnegs of Abra through PLAN International, to name a few. She represented the Philippines in the 8th Havana Biennial in Cuba in 2003, in Norway in 2004 (selection from the Havana Biennial) and in the 2nd Yokohama International Triennale of Contemporary Art in Japan in 2005.
SORHAILA LOMONDOT LATIP-YUSOPH
is an advocate of peace and educational excellence via media….
Ms. Latip-Yusoph is an empowered woman being a university associate professor in the Mindanao State University (MSU) for more than ten years now and a social media practitioner under different non-government organizations in
At present, she is the executive consultant of the Ranon ko Kalumbayan (RK2) Educational and Media Support group for Lanao, a group of young social advocates organized as a non-profit organization working for academic excellence among young Meranaos, women empowerment, peace and development advocacy via the media.
Contact Us
feel free to email us. we would like to connect to women's organization around the world to share our vision.
enigmatatreehouse@gmail.com
Blog Archive
Grassroots Storytelling for Peace
What if female suicide bombers has video camera to make a film, instead of holding a bombs which deprives many lives, including her own?
Why do they dive into death in such an early life?
They feel powerless. only way they can hold power, in the limited environment, if that is true or not, they recognize that is only through their death. their supreme property is their life. they feel they do not have anything except for their lives. they speak through their death, inducing other's death. that is the way of speech regardless of right or not.
Disconnected, enable to speech, if so, they feel that nobody in this world is able to listened to them as they wish to be listened, with sincere compassion and emotional transfusion, so that the world change and support their predicament, suffering and pain.
Probably that is the only thing they wanted to say.
We take a risk to advocate our people's right to speak, speak with the world and for the world, to realize genuine peace with love.
Let's watch independent films instead of slacking into the couch with cooling drink to watch extravagant commercial films and television dramas. it may not be as entertaining as those visually stunning hollywood films, but it contains a wisdom of our live. the real story of people with sometime hard to tolorate even to see in the film medium indirectly. every sincerely made independent film contains the wisdom of our time, our life, our society. every independent film teach us something with real scent of human being, not cyborg created by false narrative, which is hypnotics of our society.