When we say we, we don’t actually mean we. That’s because, fellow citizens of Earth, we are back with a new episode that…doesn’t really have us in it! This time we’re taking a(nother) little break from talking about films to make way for an event that took place in FINAS’s Pawagam Mini P.Ramlee called ‘Seminar Filem Islam: Falsafah, Nilai dan Cabaran’ (Islamic Films: Philosophy, Value and Challenges). It was organised by Centre for International Islamic Culture (CiTRA) of Universiti Islam Antarabangsa (UIA), this episode is a recording of a presentation by Dr. Norman Yusoff, where he talked about the relationship of Islam cinema and genre. So check out more stuff about cinema philosophy, classification and a thought or two about the value of Islam in silver screen art on the one and only film podcast in Bahasa Malaysia that touches the subject of Muslim Cinema! (Fact. We’ve checked)

Lampu Limpah

• You may get a glimpse of how the seminar looks like here
• Dr. Norman Yusoff is a lecturer of the Faculty of Film, Theatre and Animation, UiTM
• He’s a friend of the show and we have extensively published some of his writings on topics such as melodrama, ‘Bunohan’, film education, Filipino cinema, canonical Malay movies and Alfred Hitchcock, even
• Another friend of the show, Maz Irwan Azani, was also in attendance and uploaded an audio recording of the event on his Youtube channel, if you prefer streaming it from there
• The event was organised by Pusat Antarabangsa Kebudayaan Islam (Citra) of Universiti Islam Antarabangsa Malaysia and FINAS
• Hariyadi Saja is faculty member of Fakultas Ilmu Sosial dan Ilmu Politik (Faculty of Social and Political Studies), Universitas Jenderal Soedirman
• Check out the films ‘Ayat-Ayat Cinta’, ‘Ketika Cinta Bertasbih’ and ‘7 Petala Cinta’. We actually reviewed ‘Ayat-Ayat Cinta’ if you want to read up on that
• Mansor Puteh’s article about New Muslim Cinema

Download the episode in MP3 format here. Special thanks to Wubcat for letting us use ‘Mind Tricks’. Drop a line at mail@thoughtsonfilms.com, or check out our Facebook and Twitter accounts.

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