$e11.ou7! – Sell Out!
A journalist from a TV programme For Art's Sake interviews an independent director, Yeo Joohan, (who appears on the programme completely naked!), who has just received the Young Overseas-Chinese Women New Director's Honorary Mention Award at the Far Eastern Film Festival in Kryzhindangzhongbushaus Village in the category Films Suitable for Audiences Aged 70 and Above for his film Love Is Love Is Not Something Else. The first frames of Yeo Joohan's film point to a merciless parody of slow, positively avant-garde films from the Far East. However, this satire about 'festival cinema' is soon replaced by the bravado of a musical comedy, aimed, in fact, not at the independent artistic cinema but at contemporary media obsessed with audience results and ready to use ever more controversial and inhuman methods. The Malaysian director has made an explosive, original and very funny blend of different film poetics and forms. And he achieves a clear intellectual message, forcing the audience to reflect on life, death and love in the times of pop culture.
Piotr Kletowski
Yeo Joonhan
Born in 1969, one of the most original artists of Malaysian cinema. Before he turned to cinema, he had studied law, worked in England as a copywriter, directed commercials and co-directed musicals. In 2005 he returned to Kuala Lumpur to work on local TV. One year later, he made his short film debut - Adults Only, winner of the Venice Horizons Award section of the Venice festival. The royalty as a result of the award allowed him to finance his full-length debut Sell Out!
Filmography:
2006 Adults Only (short)
2008 $e11 Ou7! / Sell Out!