Thursday 22 June
Location: Khalili Lecture Theatre
18.30 Film Screening
Golden Slumbers, dir. by Davy Chou (Vycky Films, 2011)
Followed by a Q&A with the director
20.30 Wine Reception
Friday 23 June
Location: B102, Brunei Gallery Building
09.00 Registration
09.30 Welcome and Announcements
09:45 Panel 1: Representation and Reception
Charmaine Toh (University of Melbourne)
The Photographic Archive as Strategy: Robert Zhao and The Bizarre Honour
Piers Masterson (Independent)
Vong Phaophanit’s Fragments (1990) Reconsidered
Sandeep Ray (Rice University)
Dismantling the Picturesque: Non-Fiction Propaganda Film from the Netherlands East Indies
11:00 Coffee Break
11:15 Keynote Lecture: Erika Tan (Central Saint Martins)
12:00 Lunch
Additional Screening: Nguyễn Trinh Thi, Vietnam the Movie, 47 mins, 2016.
13:15 Panel 2: History, Memory, Amnesia
Cristina Juan (SOAS, University of London)
A Retelling of History: Exercises in Re-Narrativizing Forms
Loredana Pazzini-Paracciani (Independent)
Vietnam the Movie: Resituating Images in Postcolonial Mainstream and Art Cinema
Renato Loriga (Independent)
Filling the Void: The (An) Archive as a Postcolonial Resource in the Movies of Raya Martin and John Torres
Eric Galmard (University of Strasbourg)
Re-Appropriating History: Fiction and Real/False Archives in Ebolusyon ng isang pamilyang Pilipino by Lav Diaz (2004)
14:45 Coffee Break
15:15 Panel 3: (Im)material Traces
Chairat Polmuk (Cornell University)
Transitory Splendour: Preambles on a Buddhist Archival Impulse in Post-Cold War Southeast Asia
Darcie DeAngelo (McGill University)
Non-Existent Photographs, Unanswerable Questions and Unspeakable Things: Depictions in Cambodia
Emiko Stock (Cornell University)
Moving Images: Archiving the “Difficult To Picture”
16:30 Keynote Lecture: May Adadol Ingawanij (University of Westminster)
Anocha Suwichakornpong’s By the Time It Gets Dark
17:45 Concluding Remarks
18:00 End of Conference
Location: Khalili Lecture Theatre
18:30 Film Screening
By the Time it Gets Dark, dir. by Anocha Suwichakornpong (Electric Eel Productions, 2016)
19:45 End of Film
Conference Programme and Schedule
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