Synopsis
The discovery of a discarded object from her past prompts the filmmaker to return to her native Mon State to chronicle its entire manufacturing process, from back-breaking extraction to utilisation. A film about how objects can be full of meaning.
Director's Statement
The film Slate comes from my childhood when I used to create crazy stories using a slate. After completing my first year at YFS, I wanted to make my own first documentary without conversation or dialogue. I learned so much making this film and it has also given me a chance to go back, for a moment, to my childhood memories.
Director's Biography
Khin Warso comes from Mawlamyine in Myanmar’s Mon State. Having studied journalism at the National Management College, she first worked as a reporter for an IT journal in Yangon before joining YFS in 2014 where she provided the soundtrack for the documentary The Crocodile Creek. Her first film as a director was Slate for which she won the 2015 Goethe-Institut Ruby Documentary Award. Khin Warso earned her first credit as producer on the YFS ‘true fictions’ production Book Lover. She has since lent her production talent to a number of projects by YFS-alumni, including Lin Hnin Aye’s film about a Lisu shaman, Sound of the Spirits, and a graduation film project by fellow-student Seint Yamone Htoo with the working title The Village by the Sea.
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Director
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