Reading Room

Amir Muhammad is a versatile film maker who does not primarily regard himself as a film maker. In this programme, he is also present as the co-director (together with Naeim Ghalili) of the horror film Susuk, which is popular and controversial in its country of origin, but in that country he mainly became famous (or notorious) through his political documentaries that were always banned. Muhammad now primarily sees himself as a writer, or maybe even a publisher. That’s why his room is very aptly a reading room, in which visitors can read a special IFFR edition of a book he published under the title The Malaysian Book of the Undead by Danny Lim. Since but a thin booklet can be read in the room, he compares the space with Borges’ idea of hell, and since the room is to be furnished with IKEA furniture, there will also be anti-bourgeois critics who regard this as a hell of bad taste. At least, that’s what the always satirical publisher suspects. The booklet is basically sceptical about its subject, while the functional Scandinavian furnishing will also not be directly spooky.
Apart from 500 copies of the relevant book (that will be distributed free on the last day of the exhibition) there will also be marbles in the room. For the significance of these, one should look in the book under the keyword Toyol (a children’s spirit, popular among thieves ). (GjZ)

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