1st Annual Southeast Asian Cinemas Conference
WHERE BIG BUDGET MEETS NO BUDGET

Singapore 3-4 May 2004
 

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Conference Organizer: Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore

 

3 MAY 2004 (MONDAY)

8:30 - 9:00 am

Registration)

9:00 - 9:10 am

OPENING WORDS

Khoo Gaik Cheng
Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore

9:10 - 10:00 am

PLENARY

Paradigm Shifts in Southeast Asian Cinema

Nick Deocampo
Director, Mowelfund Film Institute

10:00 - 10:15 am

Tea Break

10:15 - 12:00 pm

PANEL 1– THAI NOSTALGIA

Chair: Thanet Aphornsuvan
Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore

10:15 am

Anchalee Chaiworaporn
Asian Public Intellectual scholar

Home, Nostalgia and Memory:
The Remedy of Identity Crisis in New Thai Cinema

10:45 am

May Adadol Ingawanj
London Consortium

Monumentally Exotic: Citing Antiquity in the Exportable Thai Heritage Film

11:15 am

Pattana Kitiarsa
Asia Research Institute,
National University of Singapore

Faiths and Films: The Crisis of Thai Buddhism in the Popular Discourses

12noon

My Sister’s Wedding-short film screening

 

12:15 - 1:15 pm

Lunch

1:15 - 3:15 pm

PANEL 2 – EXPERIMENTAL FILMS, ANIMATION AND DOCUMENTARY

Chair: Zhang Wenjie
Project Manager for Moving Images, Substation, Singapore

1:15 pm

David Taylor
Writer, New World Communications, LLC, New Haven, CT, USA

 

Visual Aesthetics and Meaning: International and Indigenous Narrative in Mysterious Object at Noon

1:45 pm

Sudarat Musikawong
PhD Candidate, Sociology,
University of California at Santa Cruz

From VCD to Film/From Film to DVD: Working Practices in Thai Independent Film Production and Distribution

2:15 pm

Hassan Abd Muthalib
Film and Animation Director

From Mousedeer to Mouse:
Malaysian Animation at the Crossroads

2:45 pm

Primanto Nugroho

Etnoreflika, Gadjah Mada University and NIAS, Nandan Institute of Art Studies

Story & History: Documentary Film in Indonesia after 1998

3:15 - 3:30 pm

Tea Break

3:30 - 5:00 pm

PANEL 3 – CONVERSATIONS WITH INDEPENDENT FILMMAKERS I

Host: Jennifer Lindsay
Asia Research Institute, National university of Singapore

 

Mingmongkol Sonakul
Thailand

Lulu Ratna
Boemboe, Indonesia

Juan Foo

Film producer, Ground Glass Images, Singapore

5:00 - 5:15 pm

Break

5:15 - 6:45 pm

Screening of Short films

7:00 pm

Dinner (For Workshop Speakers and Chairs Only)

4 MAY 2004 (TUESDAY)

9:00 - 10:30 am

PANEL 4 – CINEMA FROM THE PHILIPPINES

Chair: Portia Reyes
Southeast Asian Studies Programme, National University of Singapore

9:00 am

Rolando B. Tolentino
College of Mass Communication, Department of Film and Audiovisual Communication, University of the Philippines

Vaginal Economy of Images: Philippine Cinema and Globalization in the Post-Marcos Post-Brocka Era

9:30 am

Antonio D. Sison
Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen, Netherland

Bayaning 3rd World: Third Cinema and the Third World Hero

10:00 am

Emil M. Flores
Department of Department of English and Comparative Literature, University of the Philippines

Super Pinoy: An Examination of Filipino Superhero Films in Philippine Popular Culture

10:30 - 10:45 am

Tea Break

10:45 - 12:45 pm

PANEL 5 – SINGAPORE AND MALAYSIA

Chair: Frieda Ekotto
University of Michigan, USA

10:45 am

Adeline Koh
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, USA

Southeast Asian Shakespeare as Commodity: Reading Chicken Rice War

11:15 am

Wan Zawawi
ATMA, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia

Malay Modernity and the Social Issues in Rahim Razali's Films: A Critical Review

11:45 am

Benjamin McKay
Charles Darwin University
Darwin, Australia

Taking Gender and Identity on the Road: Two Recent Malaysian Films

12:15 pm

Khoo Gaik Cheng
Asia Research Institute,
National University of Singapore

Just-Do-It-(Yourself):
Independent Filmmaking in Malaysia

12:45 - 1:45 pm

Lunch


 

1:45 – 3:45 pm

PANEL 6 –  OF WAR, HORROR, MADNESS

Chair: Philip Holden
Department of English Language and Literature, National University of Singapore

1:45 pm

Pham Thu Thuy
Department of Political and Social Change, The Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies,
Australian National University, Australia

Representations of the American War in Contemporary Vietnamese Cinema

2:15 pm

Katinka Van Heeren
Research School of Asian, African, and Amerindian Studies (CNWS), Leiden University, Netherland

Horror as a Space for Religion?
And Modes of Representation and Censorship in (New) Indonesian Cinema

2:45 pm

Adeline Kueh
Art Theory & Art History,
LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts, Singapore

What Happens After the Bite?
A Rethinking of Monstrosity in Southeast Asian Film

3:15 pm

Sophia Harvey
USC School of Cinema-Television

Thinking OffCentre: Per(form)ing Disruptive Dialogues With Unruly Bodies

3:45 - 4:00 pm

Tea Break

4:00 - 5:30 pm

CONVERSATIONS WITH INDEPENDENT FILMMAKERS II

Host: Chua Siew Keng
 Singapore

 

Patrick Lim
Lim Kok Wing University, Malaysia

Ho Yuhang
Malaysia

Tan Chui Mui

Multimedia University, Malaysia

Alexis Tioseco
IndieFilipino.com, Philippines

5:30 - 6:00 pm

CLOSING REMARKS

Chua Beng Huat
 Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore

 

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