Possibilities of the Unreal

• PUBLICATION ArtAsiaPacific
• DATE August 2009
• PDF cecimoss.com

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The representation of the real has been a primary concern of film since the beginning of the medium in the 19th century. A thematic series of screenings at this year’s International Short Film Festival, “Unreal Asia,” in May in Oberhausen, Germany, proposed to take on this perennial subject from a new angle, spotlighting innovations made in experimental film and video art from across Southeast Asia. Curated by Gridthiya Gaweewong, director and founder of the Bangkok-based arts organization Project 304 and the Bangkok Experimental Film Festival, and David Teh, an academic and critic based in Bangkok, “Unreal Asia” examined realism from a perspective rooted in Asia’s own culture, history and traditions, with an emphasis on the explosion of digital video, mobile phones, digital cameras and the internet in Asia beginning in the late 1990s.

— “Possibilities of the Unreal” ArtAsiaPacific Issue 64, August 1, 2009