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We live in a nation of censorship, where information is kept hidden from the eyes of the public in order to stifle its ‘bad influence’, sometimes even at the expense of necessary truth. Just this year, there are issues such as the Pangrok Sulap exhibition controversy and Lena Hendry, to name a few, are examples of such hidden truths; a hundred of voices silenced.
At the same time, we complain about the state of our film industry – filled with contrived, boilerplate storytelling. Daring to be different would only result in being shunned by the crippling problem of ‘low audience demand’ or outright [...]
REINVENTING one of the oldest themes in human art (read: love) is a daunting task for a filmmaker who wants to get things done right, but 27-year old Tan Seng Kiat was up for the challenge.
CURRENTLY trending on short film platform Viddsee is a three-minute short by Malaysian filmmaker Mark Lee. Depicting a teenage romance between an ethnic Malay boy and an ethnic Chinese girl, Eraser has accumulated over 84,000 likes on the platform and a number of positive comments from viewers.
“Caring for mother became too much trouble, so they sent her away.”
