{"id":2856,"date":"2018-12-07T19:03:07","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T19:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/seac\/?p=2856"},"modified":"2018-12-07T19:03:07","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T19:03:07","slug":"seaxsea-film-festival-interview-with-adrian-alarilla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/csead\/news\/seaxsea-film-festival-interview-with-adrian-alarilla\/","title":{"rendered":"SEAxSEA Film Festival: Interview with Adrian Alarilla"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the second year of the SEAxSEA Film Festival which Adrian Alarilla (MA, Southeast Asian Studies, 2018) conceived, organized, and programmed in connection with the Southeast Asia Center.\u00a0 On January 10<sup>th<\/sup> and 11<sup>th<\/sup>, 2019, Adrian will take time away from his PhD program at the University of Hawai\u2019i to run SEAxSEA II, the next installment of what we hope to be many festivals to come.\u00a0 This week we talk to Adrian about the films you can look forward to seeing.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2857\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 551px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2857\" src=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/seac\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/12\/pesan-dari-buritan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"551\" height=\"251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/csead\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/12\/pesan-dari-buritan.jpg 551w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/csead\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/12\/pesan-dari-buritan-300x137.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/csead\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/12\/pesan-dari-buritan-375x171.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 551px) 100vw, 551px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pesan dari Buritan (Message from the Stern Deck) one of the films playing in this year\u2019s festival<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>SEAC:\u00a0 You began the festival last year with the explicit goal of exploring Southeast Asia in its diversity, emphasizing underrepresented communities.\u00a0 We had around 70 submissions from Southeast Asia and Southeast Asian Americans this year.\u00a0 Were there any filmmakers from last year who submitted new films this year?\u00a0 Have you formed connections with any of the filmmakers thanks to the festival?<\/p>\n<p>AA: Last year, we featured <em>Umbilical, <\/em>a short film by Wesley Leon Aroozoo, a Singaporean filmmaker and Lecturer on Broadcast Media at the Lasalle College of the Arts. This year, we are featuring works from two of his students, <em>Balance <\/em>and <em>Asad<\/em>. All three films seem to question connection and belongingness, in your family, your society, your nation. I\u2019m very excited to see more works from Aroozoo and his students, and see how they evolve and hone their craft through the years.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>SEAC:\u00a0 Last year you noticed a consistent theme among a number of the submissions, that of War and Peace.\u00a0 Did any themes emerge from the most recent submissions?\u00a0 What\u2019s on the minds of these artists that is expressed in their work?<\/p>\n<p>AA: Last year, we didn\u2019t source out films with an explicit theme in mind, it just happened organically. This year, we decided on a theme, \u201cConnections\u201d, to help narrow it down. And even then, \u201cConnections\u201d is a very broad theme. Some films were quite loose in their interpretation of this theme, but I\u2019m really glad to say that a lot of them stayed true to this year\u2019s theme. Some films talked about intercultural and international connections, migrant populations trying to connect with their adopted land (<em>Asad<\/em>, <em>Aku Mau Skola<\/em>, <em>Kampung Tapir<\/em>), or diasporic filmmakers trying to reconnect with their heritage (<em>Nisai<\/em>.<em> Liefde<\/em>, <em>Ramadan<\/em>). Some explored physical or romantic connections (<em>Kun \u2018Di Man<\/em>, <em>Gowok<\/em>, <em>.raw<\/em>), while some went beyond the personal or individual to explore the bigger connections that the maritime nature of Southeast Asia provided for us (<em>Unspoken War<\/em>, <em>Pesan Dari Buritan<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>SEAC:\u00a0 What can you tell us about some of your favorite films in the upcoming festival?<\/p>\n<p>AA: \u00a0It kind of sounds like I\u2019m being a mom when I say I love all of the films this year, but perhaps my favorite one this year is <em>Pesan Dari Buritan <\/em>(Message from the Stern Deck), a cinematic travelogue that retraces the <em>perahu<\/em> (boat) trade voyages in Eastern Indonesia. It\u2019s beautifully and lovingly shot. At the same time, it engages the viewer to think about the issues surrounding not only Eastern Indonesia, but all the seas and islands in the world. I\u2019m also taking a seminar on Water in History under Leonard Andaya, so everything we\u2019ve been talking about this semester can kind of be encapsulated in this film. But really, all of them are wonderful films, and I hope people will get to watch and enjoy these films as much as I do.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>The SEAxSEA Film Festival runs on Thursday, January 10<sup>th<\/sup> and Friday, January 11<sup>th<\/sup>, 2019, 5:00-7:30pm each day, at Thomson Hall 101. Admission is free, as well as popcorn and drinks. Drop by, watch films with us, and celebrate the diversity of Southeast Asia. For more details, please visit the film festival page <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/seac\/seaxsea-filmfest\/\"><em>here<\/em><\/a><em>, or email us at <\/em><a href=\"mailto:seac@uw.edu\"><em>seac@uw.edu<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the second year of the SEAxSEA Film Festival which Adrian Alarilla (MA, Southeast Asian Studies, 2018) conceived, organized, and programmed in connection with the Southeast Asia Center.\u00a0 On January 10th and 11th, 2019, Adrian will take time away from his PhD program at the University of Hawai\u2019i to run SEAxSEA II, the next<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/csead\/news\/seaxsea-film-festival-interview-with-adrian-alarilla\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":584,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","research-theme-arts","research-theme-southeast-asia"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.1 - 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