The Mengkerang Project II:
Sang Kancil, Hang Tuah, Raja Bersiong, Bomoh and the Missing Jet
(2015)
Sang Kancil, Hang Tuah, Raja Bersiong, Bomoh, the Misssing Jet and Others collected, deconstructed and reconstructed again folklores as remembered by people of diverse ethnicity and age. Newsreel of British Pathe related to Malaya and Malaysia, Malay films telling stories of folklores from the 1950s to 1960s, as well as gleaned images intermingled in the piece, revealing and opening up multiple layers of historical narration.
Music: Sandra Tavali
Voiceover Narrator: Azman Hassan
Special Thanks: David Wong, Alison Khor, Chong Keat Onn, Anne James, Fairuz Sulaiman, Koh Choon Eiow, Liang Ka En and many others anonymous folk storytellers.
Sang Kancil, Hang Tuah, Raja Bersiong, Bomoh, the Misssing Jet and Others collected, deconstructed and reconstructed again folklores as remembered by people of diverse ethnicity and age. Newsreel of British Pathe related to Malaya and Malaysia, Malay films telling stories of folklores from the 1950s to 1960s, as well as gleaned images intermingled in the piece, revealing and opening up multiple layers of historical narration.
Music: Sandra Tavali
Voiceover Narrator: Azman Hassan
Special Thanks: David Wong, Alison Khor, Chong Keat Onn, Anne James, Fairuz Sulaiman, Koh Choon Eiow, Liang Ka En and many others anonymous folk storytellers.
Single Channel Video . 18 minutes . Image Documents
Excepts for The Mengkerang Project: https://vimeo.com/143883972
Installation View photograph by Lin Yu-Quan
Reviews:
https://talks.taishinart.org.tw/juries/frq/2015050402
https://sharonchin.com/notes-on-habitation-and-elsewhere/
https://jasper75.pixnet.net/blog/post/42924416
http://chongkimchiew2.blogspot.com/2015/08/blog-post.html
https://projectglocaltaipei.blogspot.com/2015/04/if-bahasa-jiwa-bangsa.html