MARG1N is an independent, print-only film magazine based in Cambodia, supported by Anti-Archive. We celebrate and bridge together regional writers, artists, and filmmakers through the lenses of Southeast Asian cinema under a different topic each year.
As of 2026, our most recent release is Issue 3: Cosmos. It covers the cinemas of Brunei, Timor-Leste, and Thailand . Please view Issues for a more detailed overview of our catalog.
MARG1N is a Southeast Asian film magazine based in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Our annual publication links two Southeast Asian countries under a single theme, exploring cinema peripherally.
In Southeast Asia, the word “cosmos” invokes an ancient familiarity with spiritual signifiers: an intimate wisdom of the unknown and the sacred. It binds together centuries of ghosts, numbers, animals, and forests, where different tongues utter parallel myths. By approaching Brunei, Timor-Leste, and Thailand as a constellation rather than a pair, we draw upon Southeast Asian cosmologies and their converging visualities. From separate cinematic realms, their religions, histories, and languages reemerge and continuously intermingle.
In 2025, the region found itself stranded in multiple quagmires. A border dispute between Cambodia and Thailand escalated into armed clashes, breeding resentment on both frontiers. Civilian dissent swept across the capitals of Indonesia, the Philippines, and Malaysia. These ruptures exposed failures of our collective actions and imaginations. Nationalist tendencies calcified over solidarity.
This third issue agrees with the ongoing discourse that cinema is never divorced from politics. We’ve charted a genealogy of filmmakers, solicited essays on nations’ “first” films, urged students to create manifestos, and republished political poetry. Together, these pieces tread upon the Southeast Asian galaxy, barely grazing the surface of the discussed cinemas, like how the universe reexperiences itself through every death and birth of a star.
SPECIFICATIONS
Type: softcover
Dimensions: 148 mm x 210 mm
Pages: 144
ISBN: 978-9924-9936-29
Language: English
Release date: 30 October 2026
Binding: Swiss binding
Paper: Eco Natural Rough 120gsm (inside), and Eco Black Card 400gsm (cover)
Font: Piazzolla, Space Mono, Eudald News, and Elza
CREDITSContributors
Ato Lekinawa Costa, Kathrina Mohd Daud, Jessada Chan-yaem, Jazzy Amir, Anitha Silvia, Tommy CheeMou Yang, Xiangyin Gu, Sasha Han, Meli Fernandes, Chanasorn Chaikitiporn, Jit Phokaew, Kanyarat Theerakrittayakorn, Mayyer Ling, Lena Lenzen, Nattamon Nantanasarid, Qawiem Jamil, Hazarry bin Haji Ali Ahmad, Jose da Costa, Vannessa Hearman, Kanyarat Theerakrittayakorn, Faiq Airudin, Thomas Henning, Jonas Rusumalay Diaz, Ida Aroonwong, May Adadol Ingawanij, and Anocha Suwichakornpong
Featured Filmmakers
Bety Reis, Sasithorn Ariyavicha,
Jessada Chan-yaem
Viriyaporn Boonprasert, Thomas Henning, Jonas Rusumalay, Piriyayut Tangchitmate,
Anocha Suwichakornpong
Cover and interiors design: Sonich Touch Editor-in-chief: Savunthara Seng Managing editor: Alyssandra Maxine
Guest editor: Sasha Han