Suai Media Space

The story of the Massacre in song on the stage of the Suai Church on the First Anniversary of the Suai Church Massacre, 6th September, 2000. Performed before the assembled crowd of friends and relatives gathered with the international community in remembrance of Black September 1999.

A unique glimpse of a young teenager (Armindo), telling his story in song – accompanying himself on a beautiful little home made ukelele.  Recorded  by the documentary-maker 7 months after the Suai Church Massacre on the verandah of a house rehabilitated for the use of Timor Aid.

For those of you who don’t know how talented the youth of Suai are look at this.
For those of you who are cynical about the benefits of YouTube to the world – look at this.
Late last year I uploaded some Timorese youth playing Foin Sae Timor Oan at the Boite Cafe on to YouTube. Not long afterwards a Timorese young person who works under the pseudonym of MusisRamelau and works in Canada, muxed it by taking the music and putting it to his own animation.

In May Musis Ramelau put an animation together to music by Sincustic which is Ego Lemos’s band. Ego is well known to the Australian community. Ego is living and studying English and Agriculture in Melbourne but he entertains Australians everywhere as he is invited to present his music in a range of festivals. The most recent of which I think was the Darwin Festival. Last I heard he was cutting a CD. So we look forward to hearing that soon.

Dili Allstars Concert 2000 Dili

Popular Timorese Band Galaxy featured in video ‘Hangover’ on this site.

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Video made on iMovie with voices made by Lyn Anito and Zero! Lyn was in our first workshop in February 2006. Now she has a part time position with Red Cross in Suai. Anito and Zero are newcomers – and their talents came into the fore at Suai Loro Beach on the last day when I taped them singing and playing their guitar….you have to wait for that one. Meantime enjoy this and you can thank Annie Sloman for the inspiration to get everybody to make this song comic and give the video the zip it has now. They didn’t believe her it would work until they did it and everybody was pleased.

These are the first videos made by the students of YoMaTre 2008 workshop group.

Patiently edited by Jemi this hilarious animation was photographed using Photo Booth and Annie Sloman’s computer camera including just about everybody in the workshop group. Thanks to Gammarays King Tut off the Sounds of St Kilda Album 2005. In the process of tracing them for permission – so if you know them please let me know through the email address in the contacts menu on sms.

Video made on iMovie with voices made by Lyn Anito and Zero! Lyn was in our first workshop in February 2006. Now she has a part time position with Red Cross in Suai. Anito and Zero are newcomers – and their talents came into the fore at Suai Loro Beach on the last day when I taped them singing and playing their guitar….you have to wait for that one. Meantime enjoy this and you can thank Annie Sloman for the inspiration to get everybody to make this song comic and give the video the zip it has now. They didn’t believe her it would work until they did it and everybody was pleased.

Marcos Laran Kanek (Marcos’s Wound) was recorded by Marcos using Photo Booth – some software attached to MAC Books inbuilt camera.

Group Model Comik was made by Ferdy using iMovie, a digital still camera and Dili Allstars Song – Liberdade.

Some kids singing a good morning song for the video camera, while helping to build a traditional style shelter in front of Timor Aid in Kamenassa in 2000.

Interview with popular East Timorese Band leader Melli about the power of music to move the enemy and other relevant stuff.

Foin Sae Timor was performed at the Boite Cafe Melbourne in November

to commemorate the 15th Anniversary of the Santa Cruz Massacre which took

place on the 12th November 1991.