Interview with VIDEOPHOBIA Director Daisuke Miyazaki [OAFF 2020]
One of the highlights of the Osaka Asian Film Festival 2020 was VIDEOPHOBIA, the latest work of Daisuke Miyazaki. A frequent visitor to Osaka, many...
Preview – Earth as History: Moving Images and Ecologies in Southeast Asia, University of Westminster, December 7
A free seminar exploring films and moving image works about Southeast Asia/by Southeast Asian artists as examples of alternative narratives to the Anthropocene – the...
Trapped in the City of a Thousand Mountains (The Netherlands/China, 2018)
Filmed in the slipstream of China’s recent hip-hop explosion, David Verbeek’s short documentary Trapped in the City of a Thousand Mountains surveys the aspiring rappers...
A Land Imagined (Singapore/France/Netherlands, 2018) [VIFF 2018]
Yeo Siew Hua’s post-global neo noir A Land Imagined ostensibly revolves around a police detective investigating the disappearance of a Chinese migrant worker in Singapore...
The Chinese Exclusion Act (USA, 2018)
At the historic completion of the construction of the Transcontinental Railway in 1869, Promontory, Utah, the Chinese laborers who did the majority of the work...
White Ant (Taiwan, 2016) [HKIFF 2017]
The opening of White Ant immediately draws us into a sad and lonely existence. A young man called Bai Yide, played by Chris Wu –...
The Tiger Hunter (USA, 2016) [CAAMFest 2017]
It’s evident from the cheerfully realised 1970s setting of Lena Khan’s debut feature The Tiger Hunter that her tale of a plucky Indian engineering graduate...
Interview with Joko Anwar [Five Flavours 2016]
Before Joko Anwar became a filmmaker, he was a journalist and film critic for The Jakarta Post. After a fortuitous interview with Indonesian producer Nia...
Inside Men (South Korea, 2015) [NYAFF 2016]
Gritty and intense, Inside Men mixes the formulas of the buddy cop film and the revenge drama successfully with incisive dissection of the collusions between...
CAAMFest 2015, March 12-22 (San Francisco, Berkeley, & Oakland, California)
The ABC Network’s new series “Fresh Off the Boat” has done the impossible. It has me actually wishing I had a TV so I could...