December 2011
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Transcript: curator Isaac Leung vs director...
For the 2011 OneWorldExpo.org project, curator Isaac Leung has a conversation with director Johnnie To. Thank you to Isaac and the folks at OsageGallery.com for the transcript:
Issac 我們整個 展覽當中包括有展出一些七、八十年代較早期的作品，所以希望能夠有一些歷史的回顧。那麼或者可以講一講，七、八十年代你最初在TVB工作，後來涉獵電影，那個年代香港的電視或者當時你在TVB工作的一些經驗對你日後當導演的工作有甚麼影響呢？能否說說當時的情況？
杜 我想香港的經濟，或是整個動力...
August 2010
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Unpublished Notes - Q&A: Chris Dercon on Films and...
Through his career, Chris Dercon, 52, has pushed the boundaries contemporary art. Born in Belgium, he studied art history and film theory. He was a curator at New York’s PS 1, Rotterdam’s Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen and is currently director of the Haus Der Kunst, Germany’s most innovative museum for contemporary art.
In Munich, he has not only commissioned a number of original film-based...
July 2010
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Newsweek: Recalling Thailand’s Past Lives
Recalling Thailand’s Past Lives
by Alexandra A. Seno July 10, 2010
In Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul tells the story of a man dying of kidney failure who is visited by the ghosts of his dead wife and long-lost son. He regards his suffering as karma for “killing too many communists”—a nod to the area’s deadly anticommunist military campaign...