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Article: "Touchy subjects": Amir Muhammad's films on race and power in Malaysia.
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- June 22, 2007
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In 2005, Amir Muhammad's latest film, The Last Communist, after first being approved at home and featured at dozens of international festivals, including those in Berlin, London, Hong Kong, Oslo, Tapei, and Vancouver, was banned in his native Malaysia. Although the film ostensibly follows the life of Chin Peng, the exiled leader of the post-World War II communist insurgency in Malaysia, it is also a kind of road movie, as much about present-day Malaysia as about the past. Muhammad's other films include the politically charged essay films The Big Durian (2004) and The Year Of Living Vicariously (2005), as well as 6horts (2006), which is a collection of prior short essay ...