Raya Martin´s video installation at the Lopez Museum in Manila
The Lopez Museum in Manila has reshuffled its collection of Philippine art into a new exhibition called Double Take. The show includes a video installation by Philippino indie wunderkind Raya Martin,...
View ArticleGolden Reawakening…
…is the somewhat awkward title of a show of Cambodian movie memorabilia that will open at the Chinese House here in Phnom Penh on Saturday. The show, organized by the “Kon Khmer Koun Khmer (Cambodian...
View ArticleOpening of Golden Reawakening
The opening of Golden Reawakening, a show on the Golden Age of Cambodian cinema in the 1960s and early 1970s, was packed. The exhibition presents some movie memoribilia from that period, that remains...
View ArticleChhea Nuk: Panhchapor Tevy (Panhchapor and Tevy, Cambodia 1971) Review
Oh, the joys of discovering films that are not listed in the Internet Movie Data Bank! With no Wikipedia entry, no book chapter, no fan website, and only a brief clip on YouTube with no additional...
View ArticleExhibition on old Phnom Penh cinemas
In the last couple of weeks, this blog has been preoccupied with the activities of Davy Chou and the Kon Khmer Koun Khmer group due to their great exhibition and retrospective Golden Reawakening on the...
View ArticleLuang Prapang Film Festival
Everybody who has ever been to Luang Prabang, Laos, will have experienced some of the feelings that this lovely little town on the Mekong inevitable triggers in the visitor: the wish to settle there,...
View ArticleMyanmar 2: Myanmar Motion Pictures Museum
The film museum of Myanmar, that is run by the Myanmar Moving Pictures Association, must be the most comprehensive film museum in all of Southeast Asia. At least, I have not seen anything in the region...
View ArticleCambodia International Film Festival opens
The Cambodia International Film Festival opened tonight with a ceremony at the beautiful Chaktomuk Hall by visionary architect Vann Molyvann from 1961. As if to proove that old Cambodian-Vietnamese...
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