Lin Htet Aung: Art After the Myanmar Coup d’Etat

Lin Htet Aung: Art After the Myanmar Coup d’Etat

Lin Htet Aung’s poetic, nonlinear films defy categorisation, confound international audience expectations and won’t be shown in his native Myanmar anytime soon. So what are they about, and who are they for? While the true victims of military dictatorship and deadly civil war in Myanmar are made of flesh and blood, some in the country argue that its film scene has also been gravely wounded – ‘restrained’, as filmmaker Moe Myat May Zarchi puts it,…