Annual Southeast Asian Cinema Conference

3rd Annual Southeast Asian Cinemas Conference
THEORY AND PRACTICE: SOUTHEAST ASIAN CINEMAS AND FILMMAKING

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 14 – 17 December 2006

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Singapore 2004

Bangkok 2005

Kuala Lumpur 2006

Conference Co-hosts: Kelab Seni Filem, HELP University College

14 DEC 2006 (THURSDAY)
8.30am	Registration
9.00am	Welcoming Address
9.15am	Keynote – What’s in a Region? Defining Queer Asian Cinema Chris Berry Dept of Media and Communications Studies, Goldsmith’s College, University of London
10:00 – 11:00am	Paper Panel One (Vietnam/Thailand)
	Daniel C. Tsang University of California, Irvine	Towards Homo-social(ist) Visual Depictions in Vietnam

11.00am	Morning Tea
11.15am	Conference Housekeeping
11.30am	Paper Panel Two (Philippines/Indonesia)
	Jonathan M. Hall University of California, Irvine	Hard Water, Soft Porn: Competitive Exhibitionisms and Post Colonial Commentary in Filipino ‘Macho-Dancer’ Films
	Ben Murtagh SOAS, London	Dangerous Lesbians and the early 90’s soft core genre in Indonesian cinema
12.30pm	Presentation: Dr. Dede Oetomo Indonesian writer and activist
1.00pm	Lunch
2.00pm	Queering The Pitch Chair: Chong Chan Fui independent filmmaker, 2006 Asian Scholarship Foundation Fellow
3.00pm	Queer Malaysia -- artists, writers, poets, filmmakers and performers Chair: Shanon Shah musician
4.00pm	Afternoon Tea
4.15- 6:00pm	Plenary Session: Theories and Practices; Bridging the Divide(s) Open Queer Forum for regional filmmakers Chair: Benjamin McKay
7.30pm	Dinner/Screenings/Performance

15 DEC 2006 (FRIDAY)
8:30 - 9:00 am	Registration)
9:00 - 10:00 am	PANEL 1– Local, Regional, Transnational Chair:
9:00 am 9:20 am 9:40 am Q & A	Rachel Harrison SOAS, London			Mind the Gap: (En)countering Alterities and (Re)thinking the Postcolonial in Contemporary Thai Film
	Adam Knee Ohio U, USA			Locating Southeast Asian Horror
10:00 - 10:15 am	Tea Break
10:15 - 11:15 pm	PANEL 2– Interrogating the Nation Chair: To Be Announced institution
10:15 am	Intan Paramaditha Ph.D student, Literature Department, University of California, San Diego				Contesting Indonesian nationalism & masculinity on cinema
10:45 am	Hassan Abd Muthalib Film and Animation Director				Narrative & Style in the films of 4^th Generation Malaysian Indians
11:15 - 12:15pm	Screening of short films

12:15 - 1:15 pm	Lunch
1:15 - 3:15 pm	PANEL 3 – Gender & Sexuality Chair:
*1:15 pm*	Lan Duong University of California, Riverside				Spectral Imaginings, National (Be)longings, and the Gendered Return of the Repressed in When the Tenth Month Comes and Spirits
1:45 pm	Mariam B. Lam University of California, Riverside				World Without Women: Media Industry Development in Vietnam
2:15 pm	Arnika Furhrmann PHD student, U of Chicago				The Eye and Abnormal Beauty: Female Affective Spaces and Women's Agency in the horror films of Danny and Oxide Pang
2:45 pm	Tess Do-Bickelmann University of Melbourne, Australia				Masculinity in crisis: the straight, the gay and the castrated male in Vietnamese commercial cinema
3:15 - 3:30 pm	Tea Break
3:30 - 5:00 pm	PANEL 4 – Alternative Sites, Cultures of Cinema--Indonesia Chair: Sophia Siddique Harvey
3:30 3:50 4:10 4:30-5pm discussion	Agus Mediarta Yayasan Konfiden, Indonesia					Indonesian Film Community: the new generation of Indonesian Cinema
	Budi Irawanto Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia					Elusive Community: independent filmmaking in Yogyakarta Indonesia
	Tito Imanda NYU, USA					Film, market & democracy in Indonesia
7:00 pm	Dinner
16 DEC 2006 (SATURDAY)
9:00 - 10:30 am	PANEL 5 – Alternative Sites of Reception, Cultures of Cinema I Chair: Lan Duong University of California, Riverside
9:00 am	May Adadol Ingawanj London Consortium				The Thai Short Film and Video Festival: Alternative Public Sphere or Sub-culture?
9:30 am	Jan and Yvonne Uhde Canada				The Singapore Film Society and its role in the emergence of an alternative cinema culture
10:00 am	Sophia Siddique Harvey Independent scholar, USA				Reframing the Cinematic Image: New Media and contemporary Singapore Cinema
10:30 - 10:45 am	Tea Break
10:45 - 12:45 pm	PANEL 6 – Sites of Reception, Cultures of Cinema II Moderator: Alexis Tioseco Editor, criticine.com (Philippines)
	Kong Rithdee film critic for Bangkok Post, Bangkok				Critic
	Dimas Jayasrana organizer, Purwokerto film festival, Indonesia				Indie filmmaker, festival organiser
	David Ngui Sarawak Film Society				Film club president, indie filmmaker
	Suparp Rimtheparthip Editor, Bioscope magazine, Bangkok				Editor of Thai film magazine
12:45 - 1:45 pm	Lunch
1:45 – 3:45 pm	PANEL 7 – CONVERSATIONS WITH INDEPENDENT FILMMAKERS I Host: Tan Bee Thiam Asian Film Archive
	Lav Diaz Philippines Garin Nugroho Indonesia Martyn See Singapore James Lee Malaysia
3:45 - 4:00 pm	Tea Break
4:00 - 6:00 pm	PANEL 8 – Censorship and state regulation Chair:
4 pm 4:20 pm 4:40 pm 5:00- 5:20 pm Q&A	Sze Wei Ang Cornell University, USA			Getting Through the Censors: speaking the UnNameable in Malaysian Popular Cinema
	Vinita Ramani Singapore			Speech Acts -- Censorship & Documentary Filmmaking in Singapore: the Martyn See Case
	Anita Schilhorn van Veen Temple U, USA			State desire and the silver screen: Indonesian cinema and regulatory control from the colonial period to the present
	Tilman Baumgartel UP, Philippines			Reading Quiapo: a presentation on media piracy and intellectual property in SEA
6:00- 7:00pm	Screening: Sahai Suek: Comrade in Arms, The People’s Army of the Communist Party of Thailand (documentary)
17 DEC 2006 (SUNDAY)
	FILMMAKING WORKSHOPS (concurrent with academic panels)
9:00 – 10:30am	Garin Nugroho, Lav Diaz--- on film language composition
10:30 – 10:50am	Tea Break
10:50 – 12:00	Minh Nguyen Vo—on film production, fundraising, etc.
12:00 - 1:00 pm	Lunch
1:00 – 3:00 pm	Edwin, John Torres –on short filmmaking
9:00 - 11:00 am	PANEL 9 – Stars and Spectatorship Chair:
	Brett Farmer U of Melbourne		The New Bruce Lee: Tony Jaa, Syndetic Stardom and the Transnational Thai Cinematic Imaginary
	Katrina S. Santiago Ateneo de Manila U, Philippines		Twice Constructed: the creation of an icon of gender and sexuality in contemporary Philippine cinema
	Jane Ferguson Cornell U, USA		Watching the Military's War Movies: (de)Constructing the Enemy of the state in contemporary Burmese Soldiers Dramas
	Rowena S. Aquino UCLA		Negotiating the Spectre and Spectatorship of Trauma: documenting the horror of the Real in S-21
11 – 11:15 am	Tea Break
11:15 – 12:45 pm	Panel 10 – Auteurs Chair
	Carrie Tarr UK		Melodrama and Modernity in the Films of Viet Linh
	Benjamin MacKay Monash U, Malaysia		Auteur-ing Malaysia -- Yasmin Ahmad and Dreamed Communities
	Gaik Cheng Khoo Australian National University		Separation, Reunion, Betrayal & Love: James Lee's Digital Short Films
12:45- 1:45	Lunch
1:45 – 3:15	Panel 11 Local, Regional, Transnational Chair: Merv Espina
	Angie Bexley Anthropology PHD Student, ANU		Activism, Art and Rock and Roll: East Timor's New Media activism
	Eloisa May P. Hernandez Philippines		Comparative Study on Digital Cinema in SEAsia
	Elmo Gonzaga Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines		The Economy of Affect in Olivia Lamasan's Milan and Jeffrey Jetturian's One Moment More
3:15 – 3:30 pm	Tea Break
3:30 – 5:30 pm	Panel 12 – Urban, Rural identities Chair: Yeoh Seng Guan
	David Hanan Monash University, Australia	Representing the Rural in Indonesian and Thai Cinema
	Dahlia Gratia Setiyawan UCLA, USA	*Popular Culture as a Mediator of Identity, film as a force for social change: Kuldesak* and late 1990s Urban Youth in Indonesia**
	Richard Baxstrom Johns Hopkins University, USA	*The Danger of Living in Someone Else’s Dream: The Beautiful Washing Machine* and the Ambiguity of the Human in Urban Kuala Lumpur**
	Norman Yusoff MARA Technology University, Malaysia	Framing Genre Theory: the Socio-Cultural Functions of the Malay Film Genres
5:30 - 6:00 pm	CLOSING REMARKS Khoo Gaik Cheng, May Adadol, Sophia Harvey, Mariam B. Lam, Benjamin McKay ASEAC organizing committee