Ahmad Fuad Osman’s hippy friend strikes several poses for the camera and the resulting images have been inserted into historical photographs that mark Malaysian history. Appearing the same age in all the photographs, the humorous figure transcends time but also becomes our avatar in a reflection into the past.
Also in this combined programme
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Non-chronological History
The history of Thai political events since 1932 is reshuffled out of chronological order in this installation with multiple slide projectors.
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Landscape Series #1
A series of mysterious photographs of people pointing into Vietnamese landscapes becomes a commentary on news events in this slide installation.
Space Station: Rainbow Ihnfinity
A nod to Sun Ra’s obsession with rainbows, this installation places living plants, theatrical furniture and a rainbow mural in an ‘arke
Sedimentation of Memory
This installation examines the caves of Cannerberg, located on the Dutch-Belgian border, which bear traces of its layered history.
Her Luminous Distance
This installation oscillates between archival images of stars, craters on the moon and under-recognised women scientists in space stations.
A Man Called Love
A poetic slide installation that intertwines psychic medium Francisco Candido Xavier, Brazil’s race and class relations and military dictator
Between a Gaze and a Gesture
With images sourced from the Liberty human rights archive, this installation shows post-colonial and racial tensions in mid-20th-century Britain.
Fossil Locomotion
This flickering installation with multiple slide projectors is a study of motion that activates fossils that have been stationary for millennia.
Film details
- Country of production
- Malaysia
- Year
- 2007
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2019
- Medium/Format
- 35mm
- Language
- no dialogue
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