Race]]> Performance]]> Artistic Research]]>
Find out more about Shahmen and the research he has been undertaking at https://ntu.ccasingapore.org/residency/shahmen-suku/]]>
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Identity]]> Race]]> Artistic Research]]>
Find out how he is furthering his ongoing research into the tropes and evolving definitions of Malayness through an investigation into the diverse interpretations of the Singaporean-Malay slang word "world". Zulkhairi also shares about the archival materials that serve as sources of inspiration as well as how the residency has spurred him to experiment with new materials while affording him the space to have stimulating conversations.

For more information on Zulkhairi, check out: https://ntu.ccasingapore.org/residency/zulkhairi-zulkiflee/]]>
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Performance]]> Race]]>
Contributors: Shahmen Suku, Moses Tan
Editor: Magdalena Magiera
Programme Manager: Nadia Amalina
Sound Engineer: Ashwin Menon
Intro & Outro Music: Zachary Chan
Cover Image & Design: Arabelle Zhuang, Kristine Tan ]]>
Shahmen Suku]]> Moses Tan]]> Magdalena Magiera]]> Nadia Amalina]]> Ashwin Menon]]> Zachary Chan]]> Arabelle Zhuang]]> Kristine Tan]]> Podcast]]> https://www.buzzsprout.com/1845756/14418127-aircast-16-shahmen-suku]]> Southeast Asia]]>
Race]]> Identity]]> Zulkhairi Zulkiflee]]> Southeast Asia]]> Race]]> Identity]]> Decolonialism]]> Zulkhairi Zulkiflee]]> Video]]> Photography]]> Installation]]> Mixed Media]]> Southeast Asia]]> The Mad Masters, Jean Rouch, France, and Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti, Maya Deren, Ukraine/United States]]> Ritual]]> Race]]> Supernatural]]> 3 Nov 2017, Fri 07:30 PM - 09:00 PM
The Single Screen, Block 43 Malan Road

Introduction by Dr Marc Glöde, film scholar and Assistant Professor, School of Art, Design and Media (ADM), NTU

The Mad Masters, Jean Rouch, France, 1955, 36 min

For Jean Rouch’s landmark film The Mad Masters, the French filmmaker himself coined the term “ethnofiction” due to the blending of both documentary and fictional aspects. Rouch takes his viewers to the city of Accra (West Africa) where he follows the Hauka movement and their religious and ritual proceedings, consisting of mimicry and dancing to become possessed by British Colonial administrators. The work caused a highly political debate since on one hand it was considered offensive to colonial authorities because of the Africans’ blatant attempts to mimic and mock the “white oppressors” and, on the other hand, African students, teachers, and directors found the film to perpetrate an “exotic racism” of the African people. An outstanding film that until today is one of the classics to be revisited and discussed.

Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti, Maya Deren, United States, 1985, 52 min

Between 1947 and 1951 the experimental filmmaker Maya Deren spent significant periods of time in Haiti to make a film about Voodoo rituals and rites. The material she shot was left unedited until after her death when it was assembled into the film Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti. Deren’s work reveals the ongoing merging of art and ethnography, one of the legacies of Surrealism, also standing as an important cultural record of Haitian Voodoo—a religion based on West African beliefs and practices, combined with aspects of Roman Catholicism. The contrasting of Haitian dance with ‘non-Haitian elements’ in a series of dream-like sequences testifies to Deren’s Surrealist interest in alternative realities. Gradually, the focus shifted from dance to the complex nature of Haitian ceremonies, while celebrating Haiti for its hybrid culture as well as for its symbolic importance as the political site of a successful slave revolution, which resulted in Haiti becoming the first modern black republic.

These Screenings are part of the public programme of Ghosts and Spectres – Shadows of History.
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Jean Rouch]]> Maya Deren]]> Marc Glöde]]> Marc Glode]]> Africa]]> North America]]>
The Human Pyramid, Jean Rouch, 1961]]> Race]]> The Human Pyramid, Jean Rouch, 1961
DCP, colour, sound, 93 min
Rating: NC16 (This film contains mature content)

At the Lycée Français of Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Rouch worked with students there who willingly enacted a story about the arrival of a new white girl, Nadine, and her effect on the interactions of and interracial relationships between the white colonial French and Black African classmates, all non-actors. Fomenting a dramatic situation instead of repeating one, Rouch extended the experiments he had undertaken in Chronicle of a Summer, including having on-camera student participants view rushes of the film midway through the story. The docu-drama shows how working together to make the film changes their attitude towards each other.—Icarus Film.

This film is part of the Film Programme: Speaking / Thinking Nearby, co-curated by Dr Marc Glöde, Assistant Professor, NTU ADM, and Dr Ella Raidel, Assistant Professor, NTU ADM and WKWSCI, and accompanies the exhibition, Trinh T. Minh-ha. Films.

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Migration]]> Diaspora]]> Displacement]]> Race]]> Ritual]]> Wed 3 Jun 2015 Block 43 Malan Road, The Single Screen

Part I: DROUGHT – 92 mins | Colour | with English subtitles Language: Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Tagalog, Mandarin, German

Part II: FLOOD – 92 mins | Colour | with English subtitles Languages: Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Thai, Indonesian, Malay, Hokkien

NTU CCA Singapore will present a selection of films from the Asian Film Archive (AFA) with a focus on independent cinema from Southeast Asia. The launching session will feature the first part of Sherman Ong's film Flooding in the Time of Drought (Singapore, 2009). This docu-narrative fusion depicts the lives of foreign immigrants as they face an impending water crisis. Touching on issues as diverse as ethnic discrimination, ritual beliefs, World War II, and racial tensions in post-’97 riots Indonesia, the film explores how ingrained problems are transported along with migrant communities.]]>
Sherman Ong]]> Asian Film Archive]]> Southeast Asia]]>
Diaspora]]> Identity]]> Race]]> Migration]]> Beatrice Glow]]> North America]]> South America]]> Asia]]> Race]]> Institutional Critique]]> Hariharan Vanan]]> Southeast Asia]]>