During the Second World War Japan occupied Indonesia; some Indonesians found refuge in Australia and fought with this ally against the Japanese. Prior to this, the colonial Dutch had ruled Indonesia for three and a half centuries, appropriating profits from the tin mines, oil fields and rubber plantations that Indonesians worked. After the war, presuming […]
Daily Archives: March 1, 2009
Berlin-born Daniel Taye Workou makes films in his ancestral Ethiopia. In Amharic and (briefly) Italian, Menged is a “road movie” along a pastoral route enjoining fable and reality, symbolism and naturalism. A father and his young son are headed for market. Theirs is a long journey. The beast of burden at their disposal, a donkey, […]
Dennis Grunes 