featuring poetry by Kyi May Kaung, on UTube --
http://youtube.com/watch?v=p0lBFVcguKE
The faux puppets are called "sin daw mintha minthamee" -- Big Stage female and male dancers --
it is considered the height of art for people to dance like puppets and puppets like real people.
Lisa made this video piece around 1997-98. I read my own poetry.
It is wonderful how this piece has remained so relevant, also of course, very sad.
Burma, America, The World, Art, Literature, Political Economy through the eyes of a Permanent Exile. "We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the oppressed. Sometimes we must interfere. . . There is so much injustice and suffering crying out for our attention . . . writers and poets, prisoners in so many lands governed by the left and by the right." Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize Speech, 1986, Oslo. This entire site copyright Kyi May Kaung unless indicated otherwise.
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