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Cultural Transitions: George Town

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Since George Town received the World Heritage title from UNESCO, jointly with Melaka as historic cities of the Straits of Malacca in 2008, it has experienced growing attention and underwent …

By Anupama Sekhar

14 Jun 2011

Heritage education for ASEM youth

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Heritage dominated the agenda of the Fourth ASEM Culture Ministers’ Meeting in Poland in 2010 and will continue to shape the deliberations of the next Ministerial meeting, scheduled to be …

By Catarina Saraiva

13 Jun 2011

The bridges to build in performing arts: utopia or reality? Part 3

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This article gives an overview of the European and Southeast-Asian performing arts markets. It provides information that can lead to the creation of non-hierarchical dialogue between these two communities of …

By Catarina Saraiva

08 Jun 2011

The bridges to build in performing arts in Southeast Asia: utopia or reality? Part 2

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This is the second of a series of three articles based on interviews done to contemporary performing artists and programmers from Europe and Southeast Asia.

By Claire Wilson

23 Dec 2010

Dancing in the Graey: A Festival of Asian Dance in Singapore

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The Graey Festival, staged in Singapore in November at the Substation, had its 3rd edition this year in 2010. The festival originally began as a study of Indian contemporary dance …

By Bharti Lalwani

03 Dec 2010

Malaysia focuses on Islamic art from Southeast Asia

Bharti Lalwani has interviewed Lucien De Guise, Senior Curator at Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia (IAMM)

By Jerneja Rebernak

08 Sep 2010

New Delhi:contemporary Asian cinema at Netpac 2010

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The following article is a review of the conference organised by the Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema (Netpac), held in Delhi from the 18-22 August 2010. In addition …

By Valentina Riccardi

22 Jul 2010

Asia-Europe dance film: the Bow project

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The Bow Project was borne out of affiliations created during the Asia Europe Dance Forum- Pointe to Point organized by the Asia-Europe Foundation in China in 2007. It aimed to …

By Kerrine Goh

29 Oct 2007

Love and Death on the Rapid KL

Brief Encounters with New Malaysian Cinema

By Kerrine Goh

25 Jun 2007

The Fever of Repression

Amir Muhammad writes about an interesting Malaysian film that (gasp!) has never screened in a festival.

By Jérémy Segay

25 May 2007

Discussion With James Lee On The Dv Film Making In Malaysia

This month SEA-Images meets with James Lee, one of the leading figures of the filmmaking scene in Malaysia, and discusses the development of the independent filmmaking in the country over …

By Kerrine Goh

25 Mar 2007

Discussion With Director Tan Chui Mui On Her Experience At Résidence Du Festival Of Cinéfondation

This month, SEA-Images meets with Tan Chui Mui, a filmmaker from Malaysia, who recently moved to Paris to be a resident at Cinéfondation, the residence programme of the Cannes festival. …

By Kerrine Goh

03 Apr 2005

Straight Talk from the Producer

Malaysian independent producer Lorna Tee produced filmmaker James Lee's award winning ‘Beautiful Washing Machine' a DV feature from Malaysia that recently won the Best ASEAN Feature Film Award at the …

By Kerrine Goh

03 Jan 2005

Brief Encounter

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Writer Dave Chua catches up with Yasmin Ahmad, Director of the Malaysian sleeper hit, Sepet

By Kerrine Goh

05 Nov 2004

Across the Causeway

The closing highlight of the recent 4 th Asian Film Symposium, held 14-18 September 2004, was the Singapore-Malaysia Film Exchange Project.

By Kerrine Goh

30 Apr 2004

In conversation with James Lee

Filmmaker & curator Bernard Chauly speaks to Malaysia's DV maverick