{"id":77,"date":"2016-05-27T01:57:56","date_gmt":"2016-05-26T18:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cinemaoasis.com\/?page_id=77"},"modified":"2019-04-26T22:55:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-26T15:55:00","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.cinemaoasis.com\/en\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"ABOUT US"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Foundation Cinema Oasis<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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……….<\/span>One could almost say this is the house that Shakespeare built. In 2012, the Thai government under PM Yingluck Shinawatra banned the Shakespearean horror movie \u2018Shakespeare Must Die<\/em>\u2019, a Thai adaptaion of \u2018Macbeth<\/em>\u2019, as damaging to national pride and a threat to national security. The filmmakers recorded their struggle to free their film in a documentary \u2018Censor Must Die<\/em>, which received a historic ruling from the censors as being exempt from the censorship process, since it was \u201cmade from events that really happened.\u201d Even so, \u2018Censor Must Die\u2019<\/em> still couldn\u2019t be released as the censors also threatened to sue any cinema that would show the film. To find a way out of this Catch 22, the filmmakers set up Foundation Cinema Oasis to build and run a city-centre yet non-profit cinema and art space with the following aims:<\/h4>\n

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    \u00a0To constructively, sincerely and seriously promote creative freedom of expression in cinema and other arts.<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n
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    \u00a0To promote, support and honour neglected and oppressed films, filmmakers and other artists.<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n
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    \u00a0To bring back pleasure in art and joy in the communal cinematic experience; to foster cultural and spiritual immunity among the general public, young and old, to better withstand the dehumanising impact of all-encompassing consumerism and globalization.<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n
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    \u00a0To support films and other works of art that inspire cultural tolerance, emotional sensitivity and spiritual subtlety in Thai society and the world.<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n
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    \u00a0To inspire constructive conversations on creative freedom of expression and related issues such as the role of cultural colonialism, deep history and propaganda.<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n
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    \u00a0To co-operate with other art and cultural institutions in healing and strengthening the Thai art scene.<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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    \"Khunying<\/p>\n

    Khunying Nueang-Burinavaraj<\/h5>\n

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    ……….<\/span>The centrality of the location is all due to the foresight of Nueang Singhaseni (Khunying Nueang-Burinavaraj), who scrimped and saved her profits from selling homemade cosmetics to buy the land for 2 baht a square wah before WW2, when Sukhumvit was still a canal running through orchards and ricefields.\u00a0 The foundation is named in honour of the sacred pool that once existed in Sukhumvit Soi 43, whose only remnant is the palm-fringed waterhole in the back garden of Cinema Oasis.<\/h4>\n

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    Foundation Cinema Oasis .\u00a0 . ……….One could almost say this is the house that Shakespeare built. In 2012, the Thai government under PM Yingluck Shinawatra banned the Shakespearean horror movie \u2018Shakespeare Must Die\u2019, a Thai adaptaion of \u2018Macbeth\u2019, as damaging to national pride and a threat to national security. The filmmakers recorded their struggle to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":453,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinemaoasis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/77"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinemaoasis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinemaoasis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinemaoasis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinemaoasis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":106,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinemaoasis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2801,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinemaoasis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/77\/revisions\/2801"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinemaoasis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinemaoasis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}