Abstract
Plaridel • Vol. 9 No. 2 • August 2012 Tilman Baumgartel’s Southeast Asian Independent Cinema (2012) is an invaluable contribution to scholarship on the independent (“indie”) filmmaking revolution in the Southeast Asian region. Its exploratory project – integrative film scholarship in the region – fleshes out critical issues and discourses in independent cinema, such as its definition and diversity of forms, global context, practitioners (particularly their artistic manifestos and insights on their own filmmaking), crossroads with economy (e.g., mainstream cinema) and culture (e.g., religion), and prospects. Through this venture, the book reinforces a macro perspective in looking at independent cinema, and poses a significant question: Is it possible for Southeast Asian people, albeit their divergent political, economic, and social milieus, to find common ground – as regards to how their history, Filipino Indie by Way of Southeast Asian Independent Cinema Jose C. Gutierrez III
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