“the torch” #9 – Last exit Hollywood

Sinema's fortnightly column “The Torch” this time tackles the issue of mind building via storytelling and explores how intelligent film can stand particularly strong against the backdrop of formulaic studio mass production. It pointedly asks the question if young independent film makers for example in a country like Singapore, instead of serving the same dishes all over again, couldn't actually benefit the most from self-consciously occupying that niche which is their own home territory on the map of imagination and by doing so eventually claim an ever widening margin of audience attention worldwide.
If you want to have a closer look at such a positive and constructive concept of “applied parochialism”, all you need to do is simply click: here.

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