Why China’s Du Jie chose to make ‘The Height Of The Coconut Trees’ in Japan
The film will world premiere in Busan’s New Currents competition. Source: Why China’s Du Jie chose to make ‘The Height Of The Coconut Trees’ in Japan | Features | Screen
Sea rescues and green revolution – southern Italy’s foremost photo festival – in pictures
Monopoli, south-east of Bari, is home to PhEST, an ambitious photo festival that sees dozens of exhibitions and events take over the old town and features artists from around the world working in different media. Source: Sea rescues and green … Continued
Pobol y Cwm at 50: The TV soap where Hollywood stars are born
A Welsh-language soap opera where a number of Hollywood stars have made names for themselves is marking its 50th anniversary.Pobol y Cwm, about the fictional village of Cwmderi in south-west Wales, was first broadcast on the BBC in 1974.A number … Continued
Screening of “PAC-MAN Eats TOKYO” New Artwork Begins
To create new tourist assets and liven up night-time tourism in Tokyo, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government is using year-round projection mapping with light and sound to screen various art onto the canvas of the famous landmark Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building … Continued
Bold, bizarre, brilliant – Metaphor: Refantazio is everything I adore about Japanese RPGs
What I have always admired about Japanese role-playing games is their unashamed grandiosity. The likes of Final Fantasy, Persona and Shin Megami Tensei don’t restrict themselves to the familiar trappings of good v evil, wizards-and-goblins, swords-and-magic; they absorb all of … Continued
KL building bathed in dazzling light shows in annual ‘Terang’ digital mapping series
In downtown Jalan Ampang, Kuala Lumpur, the Malaysia Tourism Centre (MaTiC) — once a rubber and mining tycoon’s family home in the 1930s — is now dazzling with Terang 2024, an annual outdoor projection mapping series open to the public … Continued