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[martabat]

malaysian: red

yuna zarai / iman osman / michelle yeoh / aisyah aziz / siti nurhaliza / ernie zakri / atikah karim / daiyan trisha / dayang nurfaizah

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Southeast Asian submissions to the 91st Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film

The submitted motion pictures must be first released theatrically in their respective countries between 1 October 2017 and 30 September 2018. The deadline for submissions is 1 October 2018.

Cambodia

ផ្នូរគ្មានឈ្មោះ (Les tombeaux sans noms) (Graves Without a Name) directed by Rithy Panh French, Khmer 

Indonesia

Marlina Si Pembunuh dalam Empat Babak (Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts directed by Mouly Surya Indonesian

Philippines

Signal Rock directed by Chito Roño Filipino

Singapore

Buffalo Boys directed by Mike Wiluan Indonesian, English

Thailand

มะลิลา (Malila: The Farewell Flower) directed by Anucha Boonyawatana Thai

Vietnam

Cô Ba Sài Gòn (The Tailor) directed by Trần Bửu Lộc and Nguyễn Lê Phương Khanh Vietnamese

[southeastasiancinema]

Shirkers (2018) dir. Sandi Tan

[pilferingapples]

“I should so love to have children, boys and girls to nourish and to form after my own heart. But above all things I should never follow the unhappy custom of putting boys before girls. We have no right to be surprised at the egoism of men when we consider how as children they are placed above the girls, their sisters. Even as a child a man is taught to despise girls. Have I not many times heard mothers say to their boys when they would fall and cry: “Fie, a boy cry just like a girl!” I should teach my children, boys and girls, to regard one another as equal human beings and give them always the same education; of course following the natural disposition of each. I should not allow my girl, although I wished to make a new woman of her, to study as though she had no other desire in life; nor would I cut her off in anything so that her brother could have more. Never! And then I should let down the bars which have been so foolishly erected between the two sexes. I am convinced that when this is done much good will come of it, especially to the men. I shall never believe that educated and cultivated men designedly avoid the society of women who are their equals in education and enlightenment, to throw themselves deliberately into the arms of disreputable women. While many men seek the society where cultivated ladies are to be found, there is a vast army who cannot take the slightest interest in a girl without thinking of sex. Now all this will disappear when men and women can mingle freely together from childhood.”

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Raden Adjeng Kartini, Letters of a Javanese Princess (trans Agnes Louise Symmers) 

(I’m not sure exactly what year this letter is from –the collection was first published in 1921, but Kartini died in 1904. )

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Farah Mohan's batik art inspired by the Malaysian state of Terengganu, featuring poetry by azsadain

[art-and-things-of-beauty]

Isaac Israels (Dutch, 1865-1934).

The Gamelan Orchestra, oil on canvas, 106,5 x 127 cm.

[moozamohd]

[indistinctthoughts]

“Religion, which is meant to save us from our sins, how many sins are committed in thy name?“”

— – R.A. Kartini (Letters of a Javanese Princess / Door Duisternis tot Licht (Out of Dark Comes Light), 1911) 

[malewifee]

“To experience universal emotions like love – familial, romantic, platonic – without the psychic trauma that discrimination against LGBTQIA individuals can often leave in its wake. To seeing themselves – ourselves – not as an Other that has to straddle a lifetime of differentiation in the social undercurrent. 377A awakes such strong emotions in the LGBTQIA community because it is a disenfranchisement of people in a place they’d otherwise happily and proudly call home.”

Photos by Lenne Chai, read more about the collection here

[wolvespreyonwolves]

art of javanese music in Indonesia

[southeastasiancinema]

Shirkers dir. Sandi Tan, Singapore 2018

[motivationsforlife]

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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Ni Ketut Arini Alit, classical Balinese dancer

[kanataqqiyyah]

“We wished to be loved—not feared.”

— Raden Adjeng Kartini: Letters of a Javanese Princess, Agnes Louise Symmers (translator)

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Jewel Changi Airport, Singapore, photo by lordyamsuan

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Gong Gede is a rare form of ceremonial gamelan typically employed in court processions, predating the now-popular ‘keybar’ style.

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Singapore, 1972