Editorial Gema Dari Menara (1968), Brunei’s first feature film

Kathrina Mohd Daud (Universiti Brunei Darussalam)

Southeast Asia: A Multidisciplinary Journal

ISSN: 1819-5091

Article publication date: 15 December 2020

Issue publication date: 15 December 2020

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Abstract

The film was a revelation to me because I was not aware of any visual record of such a culture in pre-independence Brunei. Until I saw the film, my impressions of Bruneian culture came mostly from hearsay and oral history […] to put it bluntly, Gema Dari Menara is not a very good film at all, but is nonetheless a time capsule of Brunei’s lost pop history.

Gema Dari Menara/ Echoes from the Minaret: A Conversation with Mervin Espina about the Lost Cinema of Brunei (Espina, 2013: 70)

Citation

Daud, K.M. (2020), "Editorial Gema Dari Menara (1968), Brunei’s first feature film", Southeast Asia: A Multidisciplinary Journal, Vol. 20 No. 2, pp. 1-4. https://doi.org/10.1108/SEAMJ-02-2020-B1001

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