Youth Critics Writing

ATLAS

ATLAS VOL 2 : The Official Youth Critics Programme Publication.

FESTIVAL

Everything Comes Full Circle in Monisme

The Soft In-betweens of Asian Masculinity in Tomorrow Is A Long Time

Labyrinthine Longings in Dreaming & Dying

The Sound of Sorrow in Nicole Midori Woodford’s Last Shadow At First Light

The Salvation of a Spanning/Spinning City: Drugs as Messiah in Critical Zone

Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell : An uncomfortable exercise in metamorphosis?

Speaking Imperfectly without Fear in Snow in Midsummer

Hesitation Wound : Messy Moralities in Meditative Jury Drama

Morrison : A magical, conflicted examination of Thailand’s washed-out history with the US military

Call Me By My Name: A Reclamation of Name and Identity in Valli

Contemplating the Inevitability of Death and Loss in A Journey in Spring

Through the Looking Glass: The Tenants’ Surrealist & Phantasmagorical Vision of the South Korean Economic Crisis

ATLAS

Volume 1 – Published: April 2023

FESTIVAL

Polyvocality as Resistance

ISSUE 1

Trees Remember What Men Leave Behind: A Review of ‘The Men Who Wait’ by Trương Minh Quý

‘Distance’: A Perilous Road to Reconciliation

Review of ‘New Abnormal’ – Structural Violence in Pandemic Era Thailand

A glimpse of the pandemic: ‘The New Faces (of Dreams and Mysteries)’

ISSUE 2

Among A Thousand Weddings & A Million Funerals ‘Side By Side’

Longing, in Tandem with the Mind and Body in ‘You are 56, Still Counting and Keep Counting; I am 25’

Decoding Silence in ‘Nothing in the Cries of Cicadas <一抔黄土>’

A Modern Push; An Inevitable Traditional Pull is ‘Posterity’

ISSUE 3

Stones, Schoolbuses and the Speculative: Ecofuturist narratives in Natasha Tontey’s ‘Wa’anak Witu Watu’

Review of ‘{if your bait can sing, the wild one will come} Like Shadows Through Leaves’: So Sing Your Song of Re-Enchantment, So See but at an Angle

‘Blinded By The Light’ Film Review: The Reluctant Artist Pays a Tortured Homage to His Art

Idle Worship: ‘Grandma’s Broken Leg’ by Huynh Công Nhớ

Portraits Of Faces On A Screen In ‘Himala: A Dialectic Of Our Times’

ISSUE 4

We are the children of Southeast Asia

The Center Cannot Hold: Filmmaking Against Anthropocentrism, Against Empire

Untethering the Past: Radical Applications of the Archive

UNRULY FORM

ISSUE 5

Till Death Do Us Not Part: The Persistence of the Departed in SGIFF 2021

Buddhism in Southeast Asian Film

All That Remains is… ruin

Affectless Cinema

ISSUE 6

Displacement and Sense of Belonging in Film: An SGIFF Exploration

Here, at the Fraying Edge: On Marginality

What Awaits on the Other Side : Migration and Displacement in Society

The banes and banes of being a woman in Southeast Asia

ISSUE 1

Keeping Time in Tellurian Drama

Upstream, Downstream, Past and Present

The Invisible People

Who is that animated doodle figure I see?

The Stories We Tell Ourselves

Uniformity

Constructing Home: Bình by Ostin Fam

‘Like surrendering to a current’: On Pham Ngoc Lân’s The Unseen River

The Delicate Frames Of Grief

Search for your voice, against the trembling wall

Coffee at Arm’s Length

ISSUE 2

Working | Relaxing

The Afterlives of Calamity

Without a body, what’s there to love?

‘We were at a wedding’: On Kin Wai Yam’s Pulang

The loss of innocence

In honour of darkness, silence, and nothingness: Lin Htet Aung’s Estate

ISSUE 3

Finding Home, Building Home

The Mountain & The Document

Holding Hands and Laughing Atop Eggshells

Forms of Loss

Fragments of time and space

From an Alien’s Eye: A Literature Review of Humanity in 17 Visual Artefacts

ISSUE4

The Pangs of Life

Par for the Course: To Be Asleep to That Which Rots You

A Modern Love, A Modern Death

Notes on the Afterlife

Sidestepping Skipping Through a Chaotic World

ISSUE 5

“Grown-ups don’t look like grown-ups on the inside”: On Youth

Let Us Put Ourselves to Rest: SGIFF 2020 and Explorations in Repair

The Relentless Modern Routine & The Constant Want For More

Southeast Asian Short Film Competition: On Dreams

“If the government says it’s a hoax, then it’s a hoax!”

FESTIVAL

For aspiring filmmakers: What comes next after your first film?

Takashi Miike Masterclass Recap

ISSUE 1

Southeast Asian Short Film Competition Programme 4: How to Belong

Kindred Spirits: The Youth Jury & Critics Programme

Southeast Asian Short Film Competition Programme 1: The Wild and the Wacky

Southeast Asian Short Film Competition Programme 2: Spaces of Life

Southeast Asian Short Film Competition Programme 3: What We Are Forced To Be

ISSUE 2

Against the Grain: Estrangement and Belonging in I’m Not Your F***ing Stereotype

Gallery: Is an Immersive Experience Necessarily a Good One?

Still Life on Film; Pham Thien An’s Stay Awake, Be Ready

Subverting Culture Without Tokenism: The Significance of Meat

ISSUE 3

A Cinema of Revolt

Sweet, Salty’s Bittersweet: A Free Write

The Case for Slow Cinema

This is Acting: Performance in Life and Performance in Art

What the Absurd Invites

ISSUE 4

Architecture of the Toilet

Experimentations with Filmic Reality

The Consequences of Intimacy

The Meta Age

The Mechanics of Taste: What Food Brings to the Table

Tradition in the 21st Century: Navigating the Southeast Asian Female Experience

Visual Density in Diary of Cattle

Festival

Dialogue with the Living and the Dead: Rithy Panh’s Masterclass

Getting Her Mantou: Joan Chen Looks Back on Her Career

Issue 1

What Dreams Are Made Of

An Ode to Lady M

Programme 3: Strictly for those with an identity crisis, so basically everyone

Something we lost and why it matters to Programme 1 of the Southeast Asian Short Film Competition

The Political, The Personal & The Ugly Truth

Issue 3

What filmmakers have to consider (and feel) when exploring representation and identity in film

Issue 4

‘Mad Prophet’ of Luzon Uncovers a Nuclear Waste Barrel in Disputed Seas

So Close, Yet so Far

Issue 5

Brillante and Raymund: Keeping it Real

Reclaiming the Personal

Festival

SGIFF 2017 On the Ground • Closing Weekend (December 1-3)

Issue 1

From Gosford to Downton, Learning from Lord Julian Fellowes

Tales of Strangers

Issue 2

Locating Human Experiences in Film: Consideration of Space

A Vast Edifice of Memories: Film as a Medium to Record History

SGIFF 2017 ON THE GROUND • Opening Weekend Recap (November 23-26)

Jodilerks Dela Cruz, Employee of the Month: Interview with Carlo Francisco Manatad

Issue 3

The Aesthetics of Growing Up – Puppy Love

Issue 4

SGIFF 2017 On the Ground • Days 5 to 8 (November 27-30)

Issue 5

Video, Masculinity and Power: Joko and Suerte

Embracing Love: An Interview Piece with Ivan Tan

Then and Now: Face Time with Filmmakers

Festival

28 Nov-4 Dec 2016 – SGIFF On The Ground Wrap Up

Issue 1

Gladys Ng (The Pursuit Of A Happy Human Life) – From The Director’s Chair

Abdul Nizam – A Special Feature for From The Director’s Chair

Issue 2

Spaces of Separation: SEA Short Film Programme 2

Introducing the Southeast Asian Short Films: Into a Different Asia

24 Nov 2016 – SGIFF On The Ground

Animation All Grown Up: Estonia’s Brand of Independent Animation

Issue 3

Interview with Che Tagyamon, Director of Lola Loleng

Of Labels and Truth

Issue 4

Kinship: Recapturing SEA

Freeze: The Disquieting Miscibility of Love and Hate

The Misunderstood – Signified or the Signifier?

Of Myth and Money

Issue 5

Lost in Another City

The Weight of a Place

Indonesia: My Special Place

Speed Dates in the Cinema

Festival

Chew on This! The Youth Jury Meets the Filmmakers

Issue 1

A Different Cinema: Introducing SEA Short Films and the Youth Jury

This is Home…Truly?: SEA Short Film Programme 3

Issue 2

Interview with Nguyen Phuong Anh, Filmmaker of As I Lay Dying

Getting to Know Our Southeast Asian Short Film Directors

Issue 4

The Curious Case of Disappearing Women

Issue 5

Why Southeast Asia?

Boats and Narratives: Afloat, Adrift, Astray?

Shred of Life – My Father After Dinner ???

Issue 1

What They Talk About When They Talk About Programming

Issue 2

This is Home, Surely?

329: Remembering the 1976 massacre

A spiritual coming-of-age

Issue 3

Finding Love; Lost

Issue 4

Every Love Story… Is A Ghost Story?