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‘Democratic Jungle’ exhibition reveals harsh realities of Southeast Asia’s workers
Online Reporters, Published on 15/05/2025
» Exhibition OverviewThe Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Thailand (FCCT) presents Democratic Jungle, a powerful documentary photography exhibition by the French photojournalist Nathalie Jamois. It features a striking series of images of labourers across Southeast Asia and interrogates the paradox of progress: as our world becomes more connected and efficient, it simultaneously distances us from the people who sustain our comfort, convenience and consumption.
Asean Film Festival is finally here
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 28/03/2024
» Despite the odd, unexplained double postponement -- the first when it was moved from early December 2023 to late January 2024, and then from January to March -- the Bangkok Asean Film Festival finally gets under way, from today until Sunday at SF CentralWorld. Despite the adjournment, the line-up looks decent, with the best Southeast Asian titles culled from the past year -- Tiger Stripes, Inside The Yellow Cocoon Shell, Abang Adik, Dreaming And Dying, Oasis Of Now, Nowhere Near, Morrison, Thai classics The Adventure Of Sudsakorn and The Adulterer, and a short film competition.
Basquiat-Warhol: a rare artistic duo, reunited in Paris
AFP, Published on 03/04/2023
» PARIS - There are vanishingly few great collaborations in the annals of fine art. For a brief moment in the 1980s, Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat showed the world how it was done.
Summer vibes
Life, John Clewley, Published on 24/05/2022
» The Thai entertainment scene got a welcome boost this past week with news that bars, clubs and pubs will reopen from June 1, albeit with a closing time of midnight. The government also announced that the lifting of restrictions would apply to 31 provinces that have successfully controlled potential outbreaks of Covid-19, with the other 46 provinces still under Covid-based surveillance and restrictions.
When superpowers collide
Life, Melalin Mahavongtrakul, Published on 12/08/2020
» Bulletproof skin, invisibility, Elsa-like freezing ability -- a mysterious pill able to unlock temporary superpowers is escalating crimes in New Orleans. To retaliate and reclaim his city, a local cop works with a teenage dealer and former soldier to stop the pills and the supplier at all costs, even if it means risking it all to use the dangerous pills themselves.
Entertainment to cool us down
Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 14/05/2020
» Thailand's scorching summer weather is upon all of us. In some provinces, especially in the northern region, the temperature reached 47C according to the weather forecast from the Thai Meteorological Department.
Plight of invisible migrants made visual in 'Phantoms And Aliens'
Life, Published on 11/03/2020
» The general ignorance towards discrimination and alienation in our society is the subject matter for an exhibition titled "Phantoms And Aliens | The Invisible Other (Chapter 1)" which is being held at Richard Koh Projects until March 28.
A few too many heroes
Guru, Eric E Surbano, Published on 26/07/2019
» In a world that's filled with super-serumed worthy captains, broody billionaires in batsuits (either with or sans nipples) and "love you 3000s", it's obvious that it's the golden age of superheroes. Now a normal everyday part of pop culture, these characters and worlds are no longer just the talk of nerds and geeks in the closed enclaves of comic book stores, evidenced by the fact that the highest grossing film of all time is now a superhero film. It's in this superhero-saturated time that the card game Too Many Heroes will be introduced. Ironically, the game deals with a universe wherein there are... well, too many heroes and there are certain effects to society because of their presence. The game's three creators — Carol Blackmon, Sacha P. Nathan and Sunny Sachdev — have worked together to make the game's universe, which is an alternate reality to our own, as detailed as can be. Guru talked to Blackmon, the game's art director and Nathan, the game's writer, about Too Many Heroes.