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I think that is what it’s called and here it is, the textual synthetic and company logo for ymagon: For reference as well as future updates,...

Branding is not an art form and certainly not content-sensitive in any way. Your every street billboard and glossy advertisement should suff...

As you know, I am talking about the arts here, so please, no confusion over what I do and do not have in mind when talking about “profitabil...

I have to be honest: I still believe the word to be more powerful than the image. Maybe, in our age, the opposite seems more believable. I s...

At times, a few words are more telling than so many pictures (or 24 frames per second for that matter). See for yourself, as Munich based co...

The old spirit returns with renewed life: For the 22 nd time Singapore International Film Festival will open its doors and screens April 1...

Sadly, there is never enough time and work waits for no one. So I had to cut short my Berlinale pilgrimage this year and wait for critical r...

(The heck with it!) (pic©berlinale.de)

39 th Forum “Yanaka boshuku/Deep in the Valley”, Funahashi Atsushi (Japan) Feeble docufiction on a pagoda lost to memory. Not convincing. ...

My own selection process and criteria are a well kept secret and so it shall be. But here I admit it freely: I had to catch this Pusan winn...

Intermission (“Oh, this is so pretentious! – Give me a break, okay.”) (pic©berlinale.de)

39 th Forum “Eoddeon gaien nal/The Day After”, Lee Suk-Gyung (South Korea) After divorce, life continues – a single episode everyday drama...

39 th Forum “Meotjin haru/My Dear Enemy”, Lee Yoon-ki (South Korea) Close cinema: ambiguous emotional fugue of crumbling defences, brillia...

24 th Panorama “Tanjong Rhu/The Casuarina Cove”, Boo Junfeng (Singapore) Well acted and private investigation into a sensitively public iss...

Off to a rather hectic start into a Berlin International 2009 which, admittedly, on paper at least, doesn’t look too promising. But let’s w...

Short’s good and flexibility and spontaneity won’t suffer the long-winded anyway – so, this year again I’ll try to sum it all up for you in ...

I don’t know about you, but for me, somehow, this new year doesn’t feel like it’s all that new really, Ox or not. Meltdown, downturn, down-s...

According to all sources, the second edition of ASIAN HOT SHOTS BERLIN film festival which wrapped January 18 th with its official Awards C...

The countdown is on and before you know it ASIAN HOT SHOTS BERLIN kicks off January 13 th to bring you an eclectic line-up of films careful...

I am not one to exaggerate, but this one sure looks huge! ASIAN HOT SHOTS BERLIN, the newly established independent film festival in German...

Yes, Philip Roth is at it again, you guessed it. With his latest novel, “Indignation”, he continues doing what he always does: pitting igno...

For more than one and a half years “The Torch” has been engaged in an effort to promote a heightened awareness and a more profound understan...

You speak in the words of another. You make your choices, select their sentences and choose to borrow foreign intelligence. The selection is...

“Socrates: 'Then, in short, all the stirrings and endurings of the soul, when wisdom leads, come to happiness in the end, but when sense...

Everybody wants to get something done, realize a vision, gain recognition, build a record and, eventually, leave a legacy behind. Only few...

When I first noticed that little sticker on the DVD of 881 calling it a “true Singapore instant classic” I thought it was a joke, really. Bu...

It has been a while, in fact, too long, since last I posted something on the topic of literature up here. There are many reasons for this ho...

“Rat stories, true and made up. World-relation attitude irruption: grain ships gnawed bare. Hollowed-out granaries. The Nothing acknowledged...

“I'm pursued myself like a hundred devils, and shall be overtaken before I can well change horses: – for heaven's sake, make haste –...

For some young filmmakers and aspiring directors a short film is but a showcasing vehicle to prove themselves to the outside world and poss...

“To be a man's own fool is bad enough; but the vain man is every body's. This silly disposition comes of a mixture of ignorance, con...