Asian Vision – Monographs

A close study of the cathartic final scene of Hindi box office hit Krantiveer (Brave Revolutionary), now a popular meme, reveals the instability of meaning and the power of one’s subjectivity.

Using archival footage, Raya Martin resurrects the fraught history of Philippine film, which leads us to wonder about the future of cinema—as the film asks, “How do we watch movies without cinema?”

Arnont Nongyao’s ‘travelogue’ about his personal history and stories is a hallucinatory journey into a fog of glitch, noise and fragments of memories, where bliss resides in the fuzzy edges of meaning.

With his father, grandfather and uncles involved in Burmese cinema in one way or another, Maung Okkar’s family history is inextricably entwined with Myanmar’s film history.

Using scenes from Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s Coming of Age’ trilogy, Pam Virada presents an entrancing, lyrical study of physical and psychological interiors shaped by spellbinding magic-realist stories.