A video recipe for a poisoned pot of sup ayam (chicken soup), composed of scenes from the rape-revenge film Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts (2017).
Phoebe Pua
Phoebe Pua is a recovering academic and an independent film programmer specialising in Southeast Asian and contemporary independent cinemas. She was the mentor of the Youth Critics Program at the 2022 and 2023 editions of the Singapore International Film Festival and Editor of its inaugural publication, Atlas. Her academic writing has been published in journals such as Feminist Media Studies, Language in Society, and Discourse, Context, and Media. She has collaborated on film programs with NUS Museum and Objectifs Centre for Film and Photography in Singapore, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Busan in South Korea. How To Cook Marlina’s Sup Ayam is her first experiment with video essays. See phoebepua.com”
WHO SUPPORTS US
The team of MAI supporters and contributors is always expanding. We’re honoured to have a specialist collective of editors, whose enthusiasm & talent gave birth to MAI.
However, to turn our MAI dream into reality, we also relied on assistance from high-quality experts in web design, development and photography. Here we’d like to acknowledge their hard work and commitment to the feminist cause. Our feminist ‘thank you’ goes to:
Dots+Circles – a digital agency determined to make a difference, who’ve designed and built our MAI website. Their continuous support became a digital catalyst to our idealistic project.
Guy Martin – an award-winning and widely published British photographer who’s kindly agreed to share his images with our readers
Chandler Jernigan – a talented young American photographer whose portraits hugely enriched the visuals of MAI website
Matt Gillespie – a gifted professional British photographer who with no hesitation gave us permission to use some of his work
Julia Carbonell – an emerging Spanish photographer whose sharp outlook at contemporary women grasped our feminist attention
Ana Pedreira – a self-taught Portuguese photographer whose imagery from women protests beams with feminist aura
And other photographers whose images have been reproduced here: Cezanne Ali, Les Anderson, Mike Wilson, Annie Spratt, Cristian Newman, Peter Hershey