Annual Southeast Asian Cinema Conference

4th Annual Southeast Asian Cinemas Conference
ETHICS, SOCIAL JUSTICE, AND COLLECTIVE RESPONSIBILITY

Jakarta, Indonesia 17-19 December 2007

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Singapore 2004

Bangkok 2005

Kuala Lumpur 2006

This is a tentative programme updated 1 Nov 2007 and is subject to changes.

17 DEC 2007 (MONDAY)
8.30am	Registration
9.00am	Welcoming Address Marselli Sumarno Dean of Fakultas Film & Televisi, Institut Kesenian Jakarta
9.15am – 10.00 am	Keynote – Towards Ethics of Documentary Filmmaking: Comfort Women, New Women and "Iban (queer)" Women Kim Soyoung Korean National University of Arts
10.00am – 10.15 am	Morning tea
10.15am – 11.45 am	Panel 1 – Film Activism/Censorship (1) Moderator: Katinka Van Heeren Leiden University
10.15 – 10.35 am	Veronica Kusuma Jakarta Institute of the Arts	Negotiating the Power: MFI and the Search for Oppositional Power
10.35 – 10.55 am	Iben Trino-Molenkamp	Contemporary Activism and Indigenous Communities
10.55 – 11.15 am	Jan Uhde and Yvonne Ng Uhde University of Waterloo, Canada	Spotlight on Film Manipulation: The Hidden Censorship
11.15 - 11.35 am	Wan Zawawi Ibrahim ATMA-Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia	Film Activism and Media Censorship in Malaysia
Discussion: 11.35 am – 12.15 pm
11.45pm – 12.15 pm	Short Films Screening (1 hr)
12.15pm – 1.15 pm	Lunch
1.15pm – 2.15 pm	Panel 2 – Gender and Sexuality in Southeast Asian Cinemas Moderator: Intan Paramaditha Cinema Studies, New York University
1.15pm – 1.35 pm	Arnika Fuhrmann University of Chicago	Tropical Malady: Homosexuality, Culture and Diminution in Contemporary Thai Politics and Film
1.35 – 1.55 pm	Lan Duong University of California, Riverside	Bawdy Humor: Gender, the Grotesque and Body Switching in the Contemporary Vietnamese Comedy
Discussion: 1.55 – 2.15 pm
2.15pm–3.15 pm	Panel 3 –Framing Rural and Urban Spaces Moderator: David Hanan Monash University, Australia
2.15 –2.35 pm	Joseph Salazar Ateneo de Manila University	Filmic Representations of Manila
2.35 – 2.55 pm	Wong Yunjie National University of Singapore	The Rural Subject in Thai Cinema: The Struggle over Tradition
Discussion: 2.55 – 3.15 pm
3.15pm– 3:30pm	Tea Break
3.30pm– 5.00pm	Panel 4 – Conversations with Independent Filmmakers (1) Moderator : Benjamin McKay Featuring: Pimpaka Towira (Thailand), Tan Pin Pin (Singapore), Prima Rusdi (Indonesia)
5.00pm– 6.00pm	Film screening (1 hr)
18 DEC 2007 (TUESDAY)
8.30am– 9.00am	Registration)
9am – 10.30 am	PANEL 5 –Mobile Cinemas: Piracy, Funding and Festivals Moderator: Sanchai Chotiroseeranee Thai Film Foundation
9.00 – 9:20 am
9.20 - 9.40 am	David Teh University of Sydney	Together Alone: Cinema, Piracy and Information Politics in Thailand
9.40 -10.00 am	David Taylor President, New World Communications Lisa Smith Vice President, New World Communications	Southeast Asian Cultural Criticism, Censorship, and Films of the New Crowned Hope Festival
Discussion: 10.00 – 10.30 am
10.30 –10.45am	Tea Break
10.45am - 12:15 pm	PANEL 6– Ways of Looking: Film Criticism and Intertextuality Moderator: May Adadol Ingawanij Westminster University
10.45am -11.05 am	Nan Achnas Film and Television Faculty, Jakarta Institute of the Arts	Reading and Creating Intertextuality in the Construction of Indonesian Cinema
11.05 – 11.25 am	Norman Yusoff MARA Technology University, Malaysia	Institutionalizing Film Criticism in Malaysia
	Gaik Cheng Khoo Australian National University	Exploring ‘Chinese’ film aesthetic influences on Chinese Malaysian filmmakers
Discussion: 11.45am – 12.15 pm
12.15pm-1.15pm	Lunch
1.15pm– 2.15pm	PANEL 7– Nation and Nationalism Moderator: TBA
1.15 – 1.35 pm	Intan Paramaditha New York University	Representing Ibu, Imagining the Nation: Motherhood in Post-New Order Indonesian Cinema
1.35 – 1.55 pm	Mariam B. Lam University of California, Riverside	World Without Women, Part II: Vietnamese Film Development
Discussion: 1.55 – 2.15 pm
2.15 – 2.30 pm	Tea Break
2.30 – 4.00 pm	Film screening (1 1/2 hrs)
4.00 – 5.00 pm	Panel 8 - Conversations with Independent Filmmakers (2) Moderator: Mervin Espina Featuring: Southern Tagalog Exposure, Anocha Suwichakornpong (Thailand), TBA
7.00pm –	Dinner
19 DEC 2007 (WEDNESDAY)
9.00am – 10.30 am	PANEL 9 – Negotiating the Local and the Global (1) Moderator: Melani Budianta University of Indonesia
9.00 – 9.20 am	Zakir Hossain Raju Independent University, Bangladesh	Mahua Cinema: Screening a “Nation” in the Global Arena?
9.20 – 9.40 am	Fiona Lee The Graduate Center of the City University New York	Acceting Malaysian Cinema: Transcribing and Transcending Borders
9.40 – 10.00 am	Roopesh Sitharan Multimedia University (Cyberjaya)	Globalisation and Malaysian Tamil Filmmakers: A Critique of Malaysian Tamil Filmmaking in a Transnational Scenario
10.30 – 10.45 am	Tea Break
10.45am – 11.45 am	Panel 10 - Negotiating the Local and the Global (2) Moderator: Marselli Sumarno Institut Kesenian Jakarta
10.45 – 11.05 am	Pieter Aquilia	Creating a Cinematic Niche: the Transnational Value of Southeast Asian Languages, Landscapes, Culture, Authors, Stars and Audiences
11.05 – 11.25 am	Michael G. Vann California State University, Sacramento	Whiteness in Color: Revisiting Colonial Racial Identity in Regis Wargnier’s Indochine
Discussion: 11.25am – 11.45 am
11.45am – 12.45 pm	Film Screening (1 hour)
12.45pm – 1.45 pm	Lunch
1.45pm –3.45 pm	Panel 12 – Indonesian Films: Representations and Reforms Moderator: Hilmar Farid University of Indonesia
1.45 – 2.05 pm	Tito Imanda New York University	Economy of Film as Forgotten Film Reform Agenda: Film Theatres and the Ecology of Shopping Malls
2.05 – 2.25 pm	Handry Satriago & Wayah S. Wiroto University of Indonesia	Indonesian Film Industry: A Competitive Study
2.25 – 2.45 pm	Amrih Widodo & Gunretno, Mohk Sobirin Australian National University	From Indie to Feature: Re-locating/re-presenting Indigenous People in Indonesian Cinema
2.45 – 3.05 pm	Slamat Trisila Yayasan Larasan Sejarah	“Merperlakukan Kebenaran Sejarah Dalam Film Dokumenter” (Enacting Historical Truth in Documentary Films)
Discussion:	3.05 – 3.45 pm
3.45 – 4.00 pm	Tea Break
4.00 – 5.30 pm	PANEL 13 – Conversations with Independent Filmmakers (3) Moderator: Tan Bee Thiam Featuring: Lydia Lubon (Malaysia), Nia Dinata (Indonesia), Gunretno Mohk Sobirin (Indonesia), TBA
5.30 - 6.00 pm	CLOSING REMARKS ASEACC (Annual Southeast Asian Cinemas Conference) Organizing Committee