Malaysian Videoworks Screening @ VWFA Project Room

My video Making Night will be one of the works. Pop in if you've got some time to spare during the week. Although, with the massive Not That Balai festival right now and heaps of exhibitions hoping to cash in 50 Tahun Merdeka madness, you're in for art overload all the way until the end of August and September even! Here's descriptions of what will be screened (mine is right at the bottom):

NAZIM ESA
It’s Ok What’s Happening Right Now
2005
Running Time: 6 mins 13 secs
Tales from the inner workings of Damansara Jaya, when the tape counter reruns night after night.

NAZIM ESA
KAMI
2007
Running Time: 9 mins 58 secs
Kami: A type of Japanese origami paper. Kami means 'God' in Japanese. Kami also means 'we' in Malay. Japanese and Malay high flying feelings folded into courting gestures of try hard relationships in conservative Kuala Lumpur.

VINCENT LEONG
(TITLE)
2003
Running Time: 7 mins 14 secs
(TITLE) is a personal documentation of my life, as a student in London, as well as a generic home video. Trying to break down activities into process. Attempting to blur the boundaries between fiction and reality. Emptying the 'self' and disregarding individuality. I am minimalising/catogerising conversations.

ROSLISHAM ISMAIL AKA ISE
3m x 3m x 3m = 27m3
2004
2 channel video
Running Time:
Video 1: 5 mins 7 secs
Video 2: 9 mins
This video is a response to the rules and regulations of Malaysian Young Contemporary Art Awards organized by National Art Gallery, which states that an artwork entry cannot exceed 3m x 3m x 3m. We see the artist measuring the volume 3m x 3m x 3m the equivalent of 27cubic meters and see how far he can stretch 27 cubic meters.

EMIL GOH
"between" (Seoul)
Running time: 7 mins 16 secs
As one of his works investigating film-making conventions (Remake Ring, 2004 & Trailer, 2006) Goh delves into the concept of the continuous pan. Stationed on windowsills & doorways, the camera makes 360-degree shots, revealing domestic spaces & their exetrior views.

SHARON CHIN
Making Night
2006
Running time: 17 mins
Making Night was commissioned for Performativity (2006), a touring 'performance for video' showcase by artists from Southeast Asia, first screening at Gallery VER, Bangkok. It is based on the constellations of stars that are visible above the skies of 3 cities - Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok and Jerusalem - at 10pm on the first night of Ramadan month in 2006. The video was made by a mobile phone videocam placed in a shoebox with the lid shut. By punching holes in the cardboard, light was admitted into the box which registered as points of light (or 'stars') by the camera; hence 'making night'. The simplicity of the action is juxtaposed against the suggestion of an infinitely wide and complex, yet ultimately unifying, cosmos.