Season THREE F ILM SC REENI NG Free and open to the public 1. APR Wed, 5:30-7pm S U R V I V A L PO L I T I C S This season of films explores grassroots responses to socioenvironmental crises across Asia and the Pacific. Survival Guide for Radioactive Village Survival Guide untuk Kampong Radioaktif Directors Liew Seng Tat, Tan Chui Mui, Woo Ming Jin and Yeo Joon-han 2011, total 41:40 min (four short films) Malaysian, with English and Chinese Subtitles The Auditorium, China in the World Building 188, Fellows Lane, ANU This monthly film series offers a fresh window on social realities, cultural transformations and creative imaginings from across Asia and the Pacific, through documentary and feature films made by some of the most entertaining, insightful and uncompromising filmmakers in our region. Screenings are followed by a short discussion, led by relevant local and invited scholars and filmmakers. Sponsored and hosted by the Australian Centre on China in the World, the series is programmed by a team with diverse expertise in visual culture, dramatic arts, independent cinema and popular culture in Asia and the Pacific. T HIS SERIES OF FOUR low-budget short films were produced to support more conventional protests against a proposed heavy metals refinery in Malaysia by the Australian company Lynas. While one of the films, ‘Lai Kwan’s Love’, tells the true story of a mother who believes her son’s severe mental and physical handicaps are an effect of her work in a similar refinery as a pregnant young woman, the other three films spin three hilarious tales to disarm the serious issue they criticize. ‘Oily Man XX’ unmasks the criminal antics of an oil-covered man cum village demon; ‘Love Dish’ shows how to prepare a Malaysian banquet with fresh radioactive produce; while ‘Welcome to Kampong Radioaktif!’ is a crash course in Malaysian village life after radioactive contamination. The films are further interspersed with spoof news flashes, in which a ‘Tiger TV’ investigative reporter dispels the ‘rumoured’ environmental effects of heavy metal refinement. CONVENO RS: Ying Qian ying.qian@anu.edu.au Olivier Krischer olivier.krischer@anu.edu.au Jinghong Zhang jinghong.zhang@anu.edu.au MORE INFO: http://ciw.anu.edu.au