Video Nights, Global Insights: Dissecting and Digesting Pico Iyer’s Video Night in Kathmandu

Pico Iyer’s Video Night in Kathmandu is a collection of essays on the evolving landscape of Asia. Veering away from the all-too-common colonial perspective, Iyer’s work dissects the cross-cultural relationship between the East and the West. His forays into Bali, Tibet, Nepal, China, The Philippines, Burma (now Myanmar), Hong Kong, India, Thailand and Japan bring [...]

On Film and Culture

Pablo Picasso once wrote “Everyone wants to understand art, why not try to understand the song of a bird?” Like Picasso, many follow the school of thought that art should be done for art’s sake. However, when it comes to film, the search for a deeper message is much stronger. The call for intelligent and [...]

Couch-trip: Films to get you going

If I’m not on the road, I turn into an “armchair traveller” and head over to the nearest video store (i.e.download films) to vicariously experience a world away from home. An aspect of films that gets me itching to strap my travelin’ boots on are those that takes you through a city or a country, [...]