YCP Publications

2021 2020

Festival

Polyvocality as Resistance

By Inge de Leeuw and Julian Ross

Issue 1

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

By Rebecca Kwee

‘Distance’: A Perilous Road to Reconciliation

By Ahaan Arora

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

By Deepesh Vasudev

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

By Crystal Yeo

Issue 2

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

By Nanthinee Shree

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

By Kaizerin Lungnie Tanzil

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

By Clarice Foo

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

By Syaza Agape

Issue 3

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

By Jamie Lee

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

By Tracey Toh

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

By Edisa Yeo

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

By Cassandra Sim

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

By Krystalle Teh

Issue 4

We are the children of Southeast Asia

By Crystal Yeo

The Center Cannot Hold: Filmmaking Against Anthropocentrism, Against Empire

By Rebecca Kwee

Untethering the Past: Radical Applications of the Archive

By Jamie Lee

UNRULY FORM

By Krystalle Teh

Issue 5

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

By Clarice Foo

Buddhism in Southeast Asian Film

By Deepesh Vasudev

All That Remains is… ruin

By Syaza Agape

Affectless Cinema

By Edisa Yeo

Issue 6

Displacement and Sense of Belonging in Film: An SGIFF Exploration

By Ahaan Arora

Here, at the Fraying Edge: On Marginality

By Tracey Toh

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

By Kaizerin Lungnie Tanzil

The banes and banes of being a woman in Southeast Asia

By Nanthinee Shree