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Producing a DIY festival of experimental cinema is certainly not easy to gain support and understanding in this modern South East Asian metropolitan city of Kuala Lumpur where the KLites are bombarded daily with the latest fashion, trends, high technology and sensational mainstream media and entertainment. The term Experimental Cinema sounds ‘foreign’ to most KLites and Malaysians. They are asking, “What is it? What does it has to do with me? What are you guys doing, really?"
So, this is our little project on the KLEX website: compiling words and phrases from individuals of "what experimental cinema is" to them, from Malaysia and across the world. We all know that a single definition does not do a justice to this vast realm of cinematic art. And the spirit of DIY, experimental arts is to respect the humble individual’s voices. Our objective is not to hypothesize an authoritative statement, but to listen to the different voices from around the world, from different individuals with various backgrounds, sharing the funs and courage they have learnt and experienced with experimental cinema.
Hope you’ll enjoy this little project of KLEX! And we’ll be very delighted if it inspires you somehow, to join the fun!
ARTISTS & WORDS:
"My daily work, create a new memory."
Maki Satake, Filmmaker, 31, Japan. |
"Experimental cinema is the art of arousing emotions in a
non-narrative, innovative, personal and unexpected audiovisual
work where any other rule must be prohibited."
Jean-Michel Rolland, Video Artist, 39, France. |
" Experimental cinema is art of moving image
that shows an artist’s innovative and experimental
ways to express his/her ideas and concepts, which often
require the active participation from the viewers. "
Tomonari Nishikawa, Artist, 41, Japan. |
“Experimental film or experimental cinema is a type of cinema.
Experimental film is an artistic practice relieving both of visual arts
and cinema.”
Kotaro Tanaka, Filmmaker, 31, Japan.
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"Experimental cinema" manifesto:
“An alternative learning environment.”
Katsuyuki Hattori, Artist, 38, Japan. |
“Cinema experimental is a medium of maturing ideas that are
not necessarily ready. Is the process of creation is the secret artistic
system and not the result.”
Tales Frey, Artist, Portugal.
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"A rebellious inquiry against given (cinema) experience"
KUO Hsin-Hui, Artist, 27, Taiwan.
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“Translating the experience of our own lives to the skewed perception
of time and memory of an image gives us an opportunity to reconsider
our sense of being within the world.”
Soyeon Jung, Artist, Korea/USA. |
“At times it shows one thing and it means nothing.
Yet, you feel something.”
Niralji Ravishanker, Writer, 22, Malaysia. |
"This year, I adopted 3 stray cats. I often wonder how they see the world.
Could it be experimental cinema?"
Sharon Chin, Art Maker+Patriot, 31, Malaysia.
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"Must Experimental Cinema always/necessarily be visual,
temporal, movements, audio, spatial, abstract, conceptual,
expressive, personal, narrative, fictional, documentary, political,
provocative, engaging, revolting, meditative, aesthetical, artistic,
alternative, mainstream, filmic, cinematic, or otherwise?"
Yap Sau Bin, Artist, 37, Malaysia.
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"What is experimental cinema?' is a complex historical question
with no easy answers. Regarding my own work it is easier:
“Indoctrinated documentary: Performative ficto-critical moving-image,
framed...I mean fucked..by theory and daily life.”
Ray Langenbach, Artist etc, 63, Malaysia/USA.
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"Be experimental, see what would happen"
Kamal sabran, Artist/Researcher/ 35, Malaysia.
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“Experimental cinema is a creative action against too much
accelerated Capitalism society, not as consumer, but as an artistic way!”
Kentaro TAKI, Artist/Lecturer, 38, Japan.
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“Experimental cinema at its best is personal, independent work,
driven by individual perceptions and visions, and stretching the
limits of form and content”
Michael Brynntrup, Artist, 52, Germany.
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“Experimental cinema is curiosity and possibility.”
Yong Yandsen, Musician, 35, Malaysia.
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“Being experimental is to have the courage to explore and
to take risk; to takeon the journey and find it out instead of simply
accepting given answers and methods; to think, feel and express
as an adventurous, independent and humble learner of life.”
Kok Siew Wai, Artist, 34, Malaysia.
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Maybe "Experimental Cinema" names not a certain type of cinematic
work, but a posture we can take, a posture of re-focusing our visual,
sonic, chronological, philosophic, and emotional priorities.
Paco, General Human, Malaysia. |
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