Ethno-Cinematographic Rhizomes: A Study of Manta Ray (Puttiphong Aroonpheng, 2018) and An Imagined Land (Yeo Siew Hua, 2018)
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The article introduces the concept of “ethno-cinematographic rhizome”, built on the conceptual framework of Gilles Deleuze. It would be a model of knowledge and presentation of an ethno-social world built with image and sound, where the backbone is time and that is expressed by appealing to the sensory perception of the viewer. It is a model characterized by multiplicity and non hierarchical that through an assemblage of sensations, memories, dreams, myths, opens the subjectivity and time to virtual potentialities. The example of two recent films is given: Manta Ray (Kraben Rahu, Puttiphong Aroonpheng, 2018) and An imagined land (Yeo Siew Hua, 2018) constituted as ethnographic rhizomes for the knowledge of Rohingya refugees in Thailand and Chinese migrant workers in Singapore.
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