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Asian Movie Night

Februari 19

Asian Movie Night is coming back to Plaatsmaken with a puppeteering workshop and a short Asian horror film programme!

Shapes of Fear 
B-Movie Oddities and Experimental Asian Horror 

Shapes of Fear brings together Asian B-movies, cult oddities, and experimental horror that explore the strange shapes of fear. The program features two Japanese double bills alongside a selection of Asian horror shorts from East and Southeast Asia. From Malay folklore and the Pontianak to cyberpunk body-horror, these films twist genre conventions as bodies mutate, the everyday turns uncanny, and terror slips into laughter.

Rooted in the unruly spirit of the B-movie, these works embrace chaos, camp, and visible seams, revealing cinema as an act of creative rebellion. Horror is at its most compelling when it reveals its own construction. 

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Films for this program:

Ms. Pontianak

Alina Wong | 2021 | 22’ | Malaysia | Malay/English w/ English subtitles 

Ms. Pontianak is a mockumentary-style portrait of a Malaysian actress famous for playing the “pontianak”, a vengeful ghost from Malay folklore. As she questions the triviality of her career the film explores how women and folklore intersect in Southeast Asian horror cinema blending humor and critical reflection.

 

Asian Girls

Hyun Lee | 2018 | 6’ | Australia | No spoken language

Asian Girls follows Chan, a Chinese factory worker who lives alone. Every night, she suffers from horrific nightmares involving the Japanese office worker who lives in the apartment next door. Apart from mumbled greetings in the hallway they keep to themselves yet every night they appear in one another's nightmares.

 

Part Forever

Alan Ou Chung-An | 2021 | 13’ | Taiwan | Chinese w/ English subtitles

Part Forever is an atmospheric horror set during a funeral vigil. What begins as a traditional mourning ceremony becomes increasingly unsettling as dark family secrets surface under the candlelit calm. The film transforms a familiar cultural ritual into a site of fear and an emotional exploration of grief, memory and the unsettling truths families attempt to bury.

 

Strawberry Shortcake

Deborah Devyn Chuang | 2024 | 22’ | Taiwan | Chinese w/ English subtitle

Strawberry Shortcake centers on 16 year old Lolo whose relationship with her mother becomes a surreal and unsettling Freudian loop. What begins as a seemingly ordinary family moment grows increasingly disturbing as fantasy and reality bleed into each other with a strawberry cake at the center of a dreamlike spiral. The film explores the boundaries between childhood innocence and murky subconscious desires in this transgressive short.

Trigger warning: This film contains sexual and incestuous themes. Viewer discretion is advised.

Curated by Marieke Peeters

Puppet workshop

18:00-19:30

5-20 people

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The workshop offers an accessible introduction to shadow puppetry and animation. Participants will bring their creations to life through simple stop-motion animation exercises. Participants imagine a creature and collectively draw it onto paper. We examine how the puppets move, how different joints create different movements and are made for different characters. The drawings are translated into separate puppet components and assembled into fully functioning shadow puppets with which a short stop-motion video will be created.

By Ghazale Moqanaki and Marieke Peeters

Ghazale Moqanaki is a multidisciplinary artist living in the Hague, the Netherlands. She grew up among sounds, objects, and spaces translated through myths and stories, later creating her own stories about objects to feel closer to them. Objects then became her puppets, her music and her thoughts. Ghazale obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Classical Iranian music performance from University of Tehran and graduated in Artistic Research (MFA) at Royal Academy of Art, the Hague, Netherlands. She has shown her work in the Netherlands and Ireland. Alongside, she has performed in art venues like Kunstinstituut Melly, Studio150 in Amsterdam, and the Oerol festival in Terschelling.

Marieke Peeters is a visual artist and curator based in The Hague, the Netherlands. She creates immersive installations, sculptures, and films that combine material research with performance. Her recent work has focused on the obake yashiki, the Japanese haunted house attraction exploring how fear can become a catalyst for connection and reflection. 

Asian Movie Night (AMN) is a diasporic film platform in the Netherlands. It was founded in direct response to the structural lack of Asian representation in the Dutch cultural sector. AMN brings radically different stories and aesthetics to a wide audience, in collaboration with various cultural institutions. With an interdisciplinary approach that brings together film, visual art, design, and conversations, AMN challenges the notion of "Asianness" by breaking down national boundaries and fixed identities.

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