The Good Cats of Chinese Documentary Bérénice Reynaud September 2015 Documentary in Asia Issue 76 Feature image: Female Directors (Yang Mingming, 2012) “Black cat, white cat – who cares? As long as it can catch mice, it is a good...
300 million clicks: Under the Dome and the Chinese Documentary Context Dan Edwards September 2015 Documentary in Asia Issue 76 Feature image: Chai Jing in Under the Dome Few documentary makers anywhere the world would dare dream of attracting 300 million viewers –...
Mapping Asian Documentary Film Festivals since 1989: Small Histories and Splendid Connections Ma Ran September 2015 Documentary in Asia Issue 76 Feature image: ticket booth at the 2013 Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival. This is not an article that seeks to survey the Asian...
Wages of Resistance and the Spiritual Problem of Sanrizuka Markus Nornes September 2015 Documentary in Asia Issue 76 We all know the desire to resist the state. Anytime we receive a parking ticket, we feel it stirring in our hearts. Every time we pay taxes on our...
On the Banning of a Film: Tan Pin Pin’s To Singapore, with Love Olivia Khoo September 2015 Documentary in Asia Issue 76 Publicity image for To Singapore, with Love, taken from Johor Bahru, Malaysia, looking at Singapore from the other side of the straits. Tan Pin...
On Whose Behalf? Ethics in Indian Social Documentary Film and Practice Shweta Kishore September 2015 Documentary in Asia Issue 76 Feature image: Harrison Cudjoe in YCP 1997. “Prison exists only in the mind. Who isn’t in prison? It's only a matter of a larger prison or a...
Sufi poets, story-telling as performance and non-violence in Indian documentary film Anne Rutherford and Laleen Jayamanne September 2015 Documentary in Asia Issue 76 Anne Rutherford and Laleen Jayamanne interview Anjali Monteiro and K. P. Jayasankar. Feature image: Still, So Heddan, So Hoddan (Like Here, Like...
