A Time to Swim (2017) is a documentary that tells the struggles of Mutang Urud, an indigenous activist from the Kelabit tribe of Sarawak. His active opposition to land grabbing and encroachment of ancestral lands in the 90s led to his exile from the country. Upon Mutang’s return to his home village more than 20 […]
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The Sound Upriver
Music is more than simply learning the songs, lyrics and techniques of playing. The stories and the connections to ancestors and traditions past that music embodies is just as, if not more, important that the creative and performative processes. That is what Alena Murang, a Kelabit artist and musician, believes the essence of her work […]
Weaving Modernity 