PROGRAMMES

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Boom Boom Bang: Play & Parody in 1990s K.L.

Film Screenings

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Perempuan, Isteri dan… (1993)
U-Wei Haji Saari (Director)

All three of these films are from the early 90s but have differing tones. Perempuan, Isteri dan… (1993) portrays rural life, exploring a complex and intense relationship between a man and a woman. Hati Bukan Kristal (1990) depicts city life, following a young woman journalist who starts working at a newspaper and becomes entangled in urban crime. Bintang Malam (1991) is an action film about a brother, just returned from working abroad as a sailor who must rescue his younger sister who has been forced into prostitution in the city.

In collaboration with SIAR & Wayang Budiman.

Film Forum

19 Jan 2025, 2:00pm – 5:00pm

Talks, Tours, Conversations

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A Torrid Tour of Books Banned in the 1990s
Talk by Amir Muhammad

725 books were banned in Malaysia in the 1990s by the Home Ministry. This talk will look at the titles and categorise them according to language and theme; and also look at news reports of rationales behind the more high-profile bans, in order to consider what elements exist in this forbidden terrain. For example, did you know that there were more banned books in that decade with “Arqam” in the title (54) compared to the combined “sex” and “seks” (43)?

As some of the titles are very vague with no synopsis given, audience members will also be encouraged to imagine what those books could have possibly been about, and what dangers they could have posed to society. Visuals of the book covers will also be shown in order for us to make some deductions about design commonalities that need to be avoided if we don’t want to get banned in Malaysia. 

In collaboration with PEN Malaysia.

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Apokalips: 1990s Kuala Lumpur – the Rainbow and the Dust
Talk by Eddin Khoo

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Reading of Hangus from Pi Mai Pi Mai Tang Tu
with writer Hatta Azad Khan

Join us for a staged reading of Hangus, an episode from the sitcom Pi Mai Pi Mai Tang Tu followed by a discussion with writer Hatta Azad Khan.

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The End of the Nineteen-Nineties
with author Hafiz Noor Shams

Economist and author of The End of The Nineteen-Nineties Hafiz Noor Shams speaks about his book which explores important events in 1990s Malaysia and its long-lasting impact on the country.

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Malaysian Rock Music & Development of Sub-Cultures 
ILHAM Conversation with Joe Kidd

Punk rocker and archivist Joe Kidd takes us on a journey tracing the development of rock and alternative music and its attending youth subcultures in 90s Malaysia.

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Art in a Time of Change: Artistic Responses in 1990s Malaysia
Talk by art historian Sarena Abdullah

Join us for this talk by art historian Sarena Abdullah as she explores how artists in Malaysia responded through their work to the immense socio-political changes occurring in the country during the 1990s.