Animated from Home Film, personal snapshots and the clandestine personal diary of a civilian POW, prisoner of war, in the Japanese occupied Pacific is the history of ordinary people in a culturally diverse Asian world, the promise of an emerging cosmopolitan modern world, which would soon become a shadow of the past and the foundation for a nations independence. I've Seen Films - International Film Festival 2010 International documentary Film Festival of Kerala, India, 2009 Doc Leipzig, festival and market, Germany, 2009 9th Annual Bondi Short Film Festival, sydney, Nov 28th 2009 best design award FIKE 2009 - 8th Évora International Short Film Festival, Portugal Interfilm Berlin, Germany, 2009 VLADIVOSTOCK International Film Festival "Pacific Meridian",Russia, 2009 SoCalFilmFestival and market, US PREMIER ATOM awards finalist, Australia, 2009 PREMIER : Adelaide International Film Festival 2009 The BUZZ award, ABC archival library prize, AIDC Australian Int doc conference, Adelaide, 2009 PREMIER : Stuttgart International Animation Film Festival , Germany, 2009 The 3rd Chungmuro International Film Festival in Seoul, Korea, 2009 International selection of the Animation Meeting 3D Wire June 4th-6th 2009 in Segovia/Spain National Film and Sound Archives Polish Movie Database
 Adelaide Poet and film Narrator Khalil Edgar Jureidini at the World Premiere Original Music composed and performed by Misha Doumnov Narrated by Khalil Edgar Jureidini & Danny Gesundheit A short Experimental Documentary Animation by Independent Filmmaker LUHSUN CGI graphics by Digital Artist Carl Looper Animation and Motion Graphics by Luhsun English translation and Dutch subtitles by Researcher Henny Fokker-Bakker German subtitles by Sabine Johnsdorfer
Beta SP/DVD - 00:11:00 minutes all content copyright Luhsun 2009
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2nd draft, 30 minutes, 2009 - Fokker's Lost Diaries funded by Screen Australia and with assistance from asian History at Deakin University Behind the scenes of the war in the Asia Pacific, a closer analysis of the content gives rare insight into the lives of ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances. The intersection of colonial imperialism and Indonesian Nationalism, The perversion of Buddhism through despotism, and salvation through the act of writing. Copyright Fokker's Mountain Path 2010  Archival still of the Mountain Path as mentioned in the POW dream Kaliurang, Yogyakarta, indonesia REVISION
IS WAITING AS THE LAST PARTS OF THE 300 PAGE DIARY ARE BEING FINISHED
IN THEIR TRANSLATION FROM DUTCH INTO ENGLISH. A BIG THANKS TO THE
TRANSLATORS WHO HAVE LABORED OVER THE PAGES, EACH PAGE WRITTEN ON BOTH
SIDES OF THIN JAPANESE RICE PAPER WITH A FAINT PENCIL. THE
HISTORIOGRAPHY THROUGH THE WRITINGS BECOME A CONTINUING INSIGHT INTO
THE DYNAMIC CHANGES OF CIVILIAN LIFE IN EARLY MODERN COLONIAL TIMES AND ITS SIGNIFICANT CHANGE IN THE ASIA
PACIFIC WAR. THE OTHER IS ABOUT TO BE EXPLORED AS IT BECOMES CANCELLED OUT BY THE TECHNICS OF AN EMERGING INDUSTRIAL GLOBALISMAll future enquiries should be directed to the artist |
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