RECENT NEWS:
MARCH 2, 2012
Now on Comcast VOD! Playing until March 30th!
MARCH 1, 2012
Here's your chance to watch the movie on VOD. We'll be playing the whole month of March. More details soon!
SEPTEMBER 24, 2011
Support filmmaker Ian Gamazon's next film Merchants of Venice.
Click here to watch three clips plus find out how you can help finish the film!
SEPTEMBER 24, 2011
Last chance to see the film at a festival! Hawaii International Film Festival. Click here to buy tickets!!
JULY 31, 2011
Next stop New York, New York at the NY Asian American Film Festival. Click here to buy tickets!
MAY 8, 2011
From Screen Daily
Ian Gamazon took home both the grand jury prize for outstanding fiction film and outstanding director award for Living In Seduced Circumstances at the 2011 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival.
From INDIEWIRE
Ian Gamazon’s “Living in Seduced Circumstances” and Iris K. Shim’s documentary “The House of Suh” both topped the 27th Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival awards on Thursday night...
APRIL 28, 2011
From LA WEEKLY:
With a bag of beautifully executed visual tricks, including animation and oversaturated color giving way to grainy black and white, director Ian Gamazon slowly reveals a horrifying backstory that is not at all what you'd expect.
APRIL 20, 2011
Next stop, Pittsburgh! Playing at the Silk Screen Asian Film Festival. Screening times as follows:
May 9, 2011 @ 9:00 PM Regent
May 14, 2011 @ 9:00 PM Regent
Click here for more info.
APRIL 8, 2011
Interview with director Ian Gamazon.
It seems there are a number of Directors that are shy or self-conscious and are not excited about stepping in front of the camera. That is probably why they are Directors sitting safely behind the camera! We couldn’t coax Writer/Director/DP/Editor Ian Gamazon in front of the camera, but he was nevertheless excited about discussing his new film Living In Seduced Circumstances and send us answers to our questions.
APRIL 3, 2011
Next stop the Director's Guild of America at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival.
Saturday, April 30, 2011 at 9:45 PM. To buy tickets click above.
MARCH 28, 2011
From Hammer To Nail:
The most striking image of Cinequest 21 is probably this very pregnant woman stalking her injured former lover through a forest, lobbing arrows at him...
Living In Seduced Circumstances is impressively single-minded and the closing scene is a feat. If you’re tired of seeing immaculate preproduction on screen, this film answers your prayers—it seems to have been vomited up. It was shot in six days, a powerful whim.
MARCH 22, 2011
From Manila Bulletin:
Two Pinoy Filmmakers featured in SF Intl. Asian American Filmfest.
MARCH 20, 2011
Here's the LISC page for the Asian American Showcase at the amazing Gene Siskel Film Center. More festival news coming soon!
MARCH 20, 2011
Another write-up from a student delegate at SFIAAFF:
We watched Ian Gamazon’s after watching the bone-crunching, Vietnamese action film CLASH. Even after seeing 100 minutes of ass-whupping via flying scissor kick, I was still blown away by the intense mental and physical (unseen) violence in LIVING IN SEDUCED CIRCUMSTANCES.
Gamazon inverts expectations in this torture thriller by placing a pregnant woman (Minh) as the aggressor. The victim of her sadistic games is a older man (Mr. Thanh) bound to a wheelchair via duct tape. Divided into chapters and drifting into animated abstractions, the film plays with the playful nature of Minh and the horror of her violence toward Mr. Thanh and create a surreal, childlike fantasy in which Minh is ruler and Mr. Thanh her court jester. Quynn Ton’s performance of Minh is deeply unsettling in her mixture of innocence with a boundless capacity for cruelty; Long Nguyen’s incapacitated Mr. Thanh is delivered with complete rawness and sincerity. It is impossible not to pity the fool.
Even after two days, my brain is still digesting the rich content of this film. If you have a chance to watch this genius experiment in narrative, DO IT. You will not be disappointed.
Gamazon was in attendance after the film as well as at the CLASH after party, during which he revealed that he shot the film in five days with just the two actors, once again proving how a truly inventive, compelling film can be created with almost no budget (and also making forever scared of angry pregnant women). Mr. Gamazon, you are a men of men. Slow clap, fine sir. Slow clap.
MARCH 20, 2011
Coverage from Kababayan LA:
MARCH 17, 2011
Check out a write-up from a student delegate at the San Francisco Intl. Asian American Film Festival:
A cerebral work by the auteur filmmaker Ian Gamazon takes the audience into a different cinematic realm. The quirky narrative keeps the audience on the edge...
MARCH 16, 2011
From mediumraretv.com
Ian Gamazon’s “Living in Seduced Circumstances” is a low budget oddball that is so different from the kind of narrative I normally go for that I was surprised to like it.
MARCH 16, 2011
Next stop Chicago at the 16th Annual Asian American Showcase. It'll be playing at the famous Gene Siskel Film Center in Downtown Chicago on Thursday April 7th at 8:15pm. Here's the write-up:
Filipino American director Gamazon (CAVITE, FREUD’S 2ND LAW) takes his exploration of the psychology of violation to new heights in this dark revenge tale in which a young woman holds an older man hostage in a remote woodland cabin. A cruel cat-and-mouse game of vicious taunts and prolonged game-like torture ensues, but first assumptions about the rights and wrongs of the situation are soon dashed as the full story comes together in all its shocking bits and pieces. In Vietnamese with English subtitles.
MARCH 10, 2011
From twitchfilm.com:
Quynn Ton tears into her role with a terrifying, childlike malevolence.
MARCH 9, 2011
From Berkelyside:
Ian Gamazon’s Cavite was one of the nicest surprises of 2005: a taut, low-budget thriller about a young Filipino-American trying to track down his kidnapped relatives in the shantytowns of Manila. After a lengthy hiatus, Gamazon is back with Living in Seduced Circumstances (screening Saturday, March 12 at 9:00pm), a deeply disturbing tale of revenge that will leave audiences divided and uncomfortable.
MARCH 8, 2011
From ThingsAsian:
Masterful watercolor animation overlaid with haunting musical interludes offer much-needed relief at crucial points in a film that tests the boundaries of endurance to deliver its profound and powerful message.
MARCH 8, 2011
25 RECOMMENDED FILMS TO WATCH ON AMAZON PRIME:
Cavite. Wrote Jason Sanders when we selected directors Neil Dela Llana and Ian Gamazon for our “25 New Faces of 2005,” “[Cavite is an] ingenious cell-phone-centric thriller about a young Muslim Filipino American forced through the slums of Manila by a terrorist organization. Made with a crew of two and a cast of basically one, Cavite fashions its one-camera, one-actor motif into a surprisingly entertaining, highly unnerving action film as suspenseful as any blockbuster.”
MARCH 8, 2011
From the San Francisco Examiner:
"Were always looking for stories that are new and told in a new way," she said. We're looking for filmmakers who have a voice and style of their own."
One example of that would be Ian Gamazon, whose film Living In Seduced Circumstances will be in the festival.
"It was made on a miniscule budget and it's sort of a torture allegory with some history of Vietnam and it's people," Kwon said.
FEBRUARY 23, 2011
The site is still under construction. Download our PRESS KIT for more info about the film!
FEBRUARY 22, 2011
Next Stop San Francisco!
The film will be playing at the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival.
The screening times are:
MARCH 12, 2011 (SAT) 9:00 PM at the Pacific Film Archive Theater
MARCH 13, 2011 (SUN) 9:15 PM at the Viz Cinema @ New People
MARCH 17, 2011 (THURS) 4:30 PM at the Sundance Kabuki Cinema
You can buy tickets here.
FEBRUARY 21, 2011
World Premiere at the Cinequest Film Festival!
Here are the screening times:
March 5, 2011(SAT) 7:00 PM CAMERA 12
March 7, 2011(MON)7:15 PM CAMERA 12
March 10, 2011(THU) 5:00 PM CAMERA 12
For more info click here.
