Postcolonial Hangups in Southeast Asian Cinema

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerald Sim
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asian ◽  
Asian Cinema

scholarly journals Singapore International Film Festival 2014

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alfonse Chiu
Keyword(s):  
Golden Age ◽  
Executive Director ◽  
Southeast Asian ◽  
Small Island ◽  
Film Festival ◽  
Asian Cinema ◽  
Better Than

NOTES FROM A SLIGHTLY SMALL ISLAND: SINGAPORE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL Following a two-year hiatus that included a complete revamping of its structure and organization, the Singapore International Film Festival returned for its 25th edition (4-14 December 2014) bigger and better than ever, with a re-branding effort that changed the former 'SIFF' into its current 'SGIFF'. A part of the inaugural Singapore Media Festival, SGIFF featured over 147 films from 50 countries spread over ten days and eleven sections, with a team headed by executive director Wahyuni Hadi and director-programmer Zhang Wenjie. It may be safe to say that the revitalized SGIFF heralds a new golden age of Singaporean and Southeast Asian, cinema....

Postcolonial Hangups in Southeast Asian Cinema

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerald Sim
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Work ◽  
Southeast Asian ◽  
Colonial History ◽  
Art Cinema ◽  
Asian Cinema

Postcolonial Hangups in Southeast Asian Cinema: Poetics of Space, Sound, and Stability explores a geopolitically situated set of cultures negotiating unique relationships to colonial history. Singaporean, Malaysian, and Indonesian identities are discussed through a variety of commercial films, art cinema, and experimental work. The book discovers instances of postcoloniality that manifest stylistically through Singapore’s preoccupations with space, the importance of sound to Malay culture, and the Indonesian investment in genre.

Conclusion

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerald Sim
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Continental Philosophy ◽  
Southeast Asian ◽  
The Political ◽  
Asian Studies ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
Southeast Asian Studies ◽  
Asian Cinema ◽  
Experimental Films

Inaugurated by a theoretical reading of experimental films from Indonesia, the Conclusion proposes principles and methods for future studies of Southeast Asian cinema. It grapples self-reflexively with the implications of applying critical theory and continental philosophy on undertheorized films from Southeast Asia, and acknowledges historical apprehensions regarding theory’s ability to imperialize knowledge. These intellectual politics render it worthwhile to ponder the political roots of Southeast Asian studies and area studies, for they are disciplines rooted in imperial and neo-imperial projects as well. Out of that conundrum, Southeast Asia’s uniqueness creates challenges for research, but these cinemas may also provide the infrastructure for a method that can wriggle free and clear these ideological or political overhangs.

The Cinematic Forest and Southeast Asian Cinema

2021 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 182-187
Author(s):  
Graiwoot Chulphongsathorn
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asian ◽  
Asian Cinema

scholarly journals Singapore 2004

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ron Holloway
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asian ◽  
New Delhi ◽  
Film Festival ◽  
Film Festivals ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Asian Cinema

SINGAPORE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2004 For nearly two decades, the Singapore International Film Festival (SIFF), the showcase of Southeast Asian cinema, has also served as a timely beacon for other key Asian film festivals. Pusan in Korea, Filmex in Tokyo, and Cinefan in New Delhi have benefited from Singapore, simply because SIFF was on the scene first and did all the spadework. Link all four festivals together, and the committed cineaste can easily anticipate Asian entries selected later for Cannes, Venice, Berlin, Montreal, and elsewhere. Its secret? The SIFF is independently operated under a quartet of film professionals (Geoffrey Malone, Philip Cheah, Lesley Ho, and Teo Swee Leng), who concentrate on quality Asian cinema. The Silver Screen Awards, inaugurated in 1991, are judged by a professional jury of peers. The Asian Films section a focuses on current trends, styles, and themes in the respective national cinemas. And Singapore happens...

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