Survival Guide for Radioactive Village

Season THREE
F ILM SC REENI NG
Free and open to the public
1.
APR
Wed, 5:30-7pm
S U R V I V A L PO L I T I C S
This season of films explores grassroots responses to socioenvironmental crises across Asia and the Pacific.
Survival Guide for
Radioactive Village
Survival Guide untuk Kampong Radioaktif
Directors Liew Seng Tat, Tan Chui Mui, Woo Ming Jin and Yeo Joon-han
2011, total 41:40 min (four short films)
Malaysian, with English and Chinese Subtitles
The Auditorium, China in the World Building 188, Fellows Lane, ANU
This monthly film series
offers a fresh window on
social realities, cultural
transformations and creative
imaginings from across Asia
and the Pacific, through documentary and feature films
made by some of the most
entertaining, insightful and
uncompromising filmmakers
in our region. Screenings are
followed by a short discussion, led by relevant local
and invited scholars and
filmmakers.
Sponsored and hosted by the
Australian Centre on China
in the World, the series is
programmed by a team
with diverse expertise in
visual culture, dramatic arts,
independent cinema and
popular culture in Asia and
the Pacific.
T
HIS SERIES OF FOUR low-budget short films were produced
to support more conventional protests against a proposed heavy
metals refinery in Malaysia by the Australian company Lynas. While
one of the films, ‘Lai Kwan’s Love’, tells the true story of a mother
who believes her son’s severe mental and physical handicaps are an
effect of her work in a similar refinery as a pregnant young woman,
the other three films spin three hilarious tales to disarm the serious
issue they criticize. ‘Oily Man XX’ unmasks the criminal antics of an
oil-covered man cum village demon; ‘Love Dish’ shows how to prepare
a Malaysian banquet with fresh radioactive produce; while ‘Welcome
to Kampong Radioaktif!’ is a crash course
in Malaysian village life after radioactive
contamination. The films are further interspersed with spoof news flashes, in which a
‘Tiger TV’ investigative reporter dispels the
‘rumoured’ environmental effects of heavy
metal refinement.
CONVENO RS:
Ying Qian
ying.qian@anu.edu.au
Olivier Krischer
olivier.krischer@anu.edu.au
Jinghong Zhang
jinghong.zhang@anu.edu.au
MORE INFO: http://ciw.anu.edu.au