At the New York Film Festival premiere, UNCAGED interviewed Liyo Gong about her shift from DJ and film editor to acting. Gong, known for editing Wang Bing's films, discussed her role as a second-generation Chinese character and delved into Daoist interpretations of serendipity in the film.
Directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara in 1962, Pitfall was the first Japanese film to be distributed by the Art Theatre Guild (ATG), the independent distribution and production company that helped ignite the Japanese New Wave’s radically experimental formalism.
This week’s episode focuses on the breakout Malaysian social drama, Abang Adik, which earned Wu Kang-ren the Best Leading Actor prize at the Golden Horse Awards this year. Director Jin Ong delves into the making of his award-winning debut film with programmer David Wilentz.
Continuing a series of films examining the discriminatory legal and social practices afflicting those on the margins of Malaysian society, writer-director Jin Ong pierces a tragic nerve through a fateful fraternal bond in his latest social drama, "Abang Adik."
Equal parts mystery and melodrama, "The Abandoned" contrasts its grisly details with detective Wu Jie’s reawakening, using its riddle as a device of rebirth amidst personal tragedy.
Co-director Rasiguet Sookkarn, known previously as the production designer behind films like "Pop Aye," "36," and "Where We Belong," sat down to talk about Faces of Anne’s psychological horror and the duplicity of online identity that serves as the premise for its collage.
