Politics and pomeloes: an interview with Amir Muhammad.
Cineaste › Vol. 32 Nbr. 3, June 2007
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Politics and pomeloes: an interview with Amir Muhammad.
Malaysian filmmaker Amir Muhammad's documentary-essay films integrate performance, music, and innovative documentary techniques to raise politically sensitive questions, particularly on topics of race and religion. Muhammad positions himself as an interlocutor between Malay-Muslim, Chinese, and Indian communities of Malaysia and Indonesia to unravel and expose histories of dissent and conflict that are generally avoided in public discourse. One of South Asia's leading new documentary filmmakers, Muhammad's works include The Big Durian (2004), The Year Of Living Vicariously (2005), 6horts (2006), and The Last Communist (2006). We spoke with Amir Muhammad last June at the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar in Poughkeepsie, New York.--Roderick Coover
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