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Composed of GIFs and memes culled from the internet, Liana Yang’s tribute to bread-making concocts irony and earnestness in equal measure with its home-baked aesthetic. Celebrating the processes of kneading, waiting, sharing, and cherishing, the film draws unexpected parallels between the hidden labour of art-making and the joy of creative flourishing.
Mel was a heavy metal musician from Singapore who was touring the world with his bands. But at 29, an accident left him paralysed from the chest down. Three years later, he was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. Refusing to go gentle into that good night, Mel throws one last rock concert for the road.
Dear Mr Jones is a 5-part short film crafted by Lee Zhe Feng. Telling the tale of Mr Jones, the man we all know and turn to. The story details the intricacies of life and its many unfair struggles. With each episode being a letter to Mr Jones, one can only wonder, will he reply?
It tells a story of Rudra, who dreams of performing in a dance competition, were paused after he was met with an accident. How will Rudra and his friend overcome it? How will they achieve their dreams? Come down to find out!
On a sweltering day, two men take a break in a swimming pool. Contact with water will reveal their true nature...
Two strangers, Summer and Lucas, meet over the course of their lives 5 distinct times. In each encounter, they interact and impact each other in a different way, but they always seem to forget the next time that they meet.
A young scientist invents a device that reads the alpha waves of living creatures but struggles to launch his brilliant discovery. This invention holds the power to improve human life but corporate arrogance and the scientist’s naive idealism complicate things. A melancholic tale of duplicity and warped time.
A box of broken Tau Sar Piah (chinese biscuit) has caused a rift between a father and son that spins over 2 decades.
10-year-old Isaac’s innocent request for his dad to accompany him results in his divorced parents’ accidental meeting. Isaac feels misunderstood and wronged when his mum protects her new partner over Isaac during dinner. His fears and insecurities drive him to search for his dad late at night, only to realise that he is truly alone now.
A food delivery man receives unusual requests to spy on his customers and discovers a way out of his mundane life.
A student is scolded by her teacher for an imaginative rendition of the ancient Taoist parable of Chaos. Two parallel narratives run through the film: the quashing of the student’s creativity and the death of Chaos in the parable.
This short film from the Corrick Collection by the Corrick Family Entertainers features documentary footage taken in Singapore.
Two friends reconnect at their childhood haunts in the heartlands. As the night lengthens, their conversations draw out their sense of entrapment within the city, and how far removed their present selves have become from fleeting childhood aspirations.
Set against a utopian 3D rendering of Singapore, Makes This World Live Young Again is a music video featuring ant mascots in uncanny settings including cruising down the Singapore River on a giant plastic bottle and frolicking in a burning garden. With an infectious soundtrack reminiscent of national education sing-a-longs, the language of a didactic instructional video is enmeshed with universal climate movement aesthetics to hallucinatory effect.
Captured with breathtaking clarity over a period of two years, SKYLiGHT is an observational documentation of the urban and natural landscapes of Singapore that evokes a sense of the celestial.
TAMAN HUTAN Chapter Four: The Wound Response focuses on the rubber craze of the 20th century through both archival documentation of wages and an interview with Cek Anuan on his grandfather Rasimin who worked with English naturalist Henry Nicholas Ridley. Focusing on the Singapore Botanic Gardens as the site of interaction between colonists and labourers, the film reveals the wounds of those erased from colonial records but who remain inscribed within nature itself.
Holding Space explores the lived experiences of Burmese immigrants in Singapore under the gaze of neighbours in public flats. With a focus on spatial arrangements and housing exteriors, the experimental film challenges the ways architects visualise and instrumentalise their ways of seeing, seeking to hold space for subjective experiences and the subtle yet persistent influences on our domestic interiors.
On a quiet February morning in 1942, weeks after the Japanese occupied Singapore, a young Chinese boy accompanies his father on a walk from their home to a mass screening centre. Accompanied by a sombre score, the animated film is a melancholic reflection on the systemic purge of local Chinese by the Japanese military known as Sook Ching and meditates on the historical trauma.
Set in a not-too-distant future where population is in the decline, men and women see no need to marry or reproduce. Authorities steps in, mandate all singles aged 30 to live in “Single City”. The purpose is simple: find love and reproduce.The penalty of not doing so is harsh, inhumane even. Memories will be altered and partners assigned. This story follows 4 singles as they begin their time in Single City. Will they fall in love, and find their happily ever after?
A teenage girl recalls her memories of her grandfather who works as a cleaner whenever she sees a bowl of rice.
In Pursuit of Temples in the Sky introduces a fictional landscape in which the worlds of Sikhism and Queerness collide. Conceived as a fashion film where textures and textiles take the foreground, narratives are constructed by examining and dismantling the bodies of work of two poets, Avtaar Singh Paash and Richard Siken.
The Drawing Room & Episodes from Art Studio is a filmic exploration of the text, characters and narratives from Yeng Pway Ngon’s novel, Art Studio. The film meditates on the practice of life drawing, and moves from the snug art studio to the wide corridors of the newly opened National Gallery Singapore. Chapters of Singapore Modern Art adorn the freshly painted walls of the gallery, and conjure stories of the passing generation portrayed in Yeng’s Art Studio.
A teen struggles to get on with his life in school as reminders of the past trigger the memories of his late sister.
To connect with her new class, an inexperienced junior college teacher asks each student to anonymously share a personal secret. Chaos ensues when a note reads: I have HIV.
While watching a Chinese Opera performance, a little girl wanders away from her mother.
A digital circus show production that stars an all-Singaporean cast of artistes showcasing an array of circus disciplines. Perfect for all ages, the festive cinematic piece features gravity-defying stunts, acrobatic feats, contortion, fire breathing, and more.
An honest, heartfelt documentary about Singapore’s underground music scene opens a rare window into a slice of Singapore that has largely eluded the public eye.
A woman plans to surprise a man when he comes home from work.
A House Is Not A Home follows the relationship between Yasmine and her mother Hayati as they deal with her brother, Khai’s drug abuse problem.
This documentary follows four people living with Harlequin ichthyosis, a rare genetic skin disorder, in Singapore, Hong Kong and Vietnam.
Inspired by Cultural Medallion Recipient KTM Iqbal’s poem “Irataiyar” (Twins), this film follows the protagonist on the morning of a crucial job interview. Will he make it in time?
A migrant worker from South India, whose customs says he is not allowed to marry at an even age, tries to find a wife before his 32nd birthday whilst working as a lorry driver in Singapore.
It’s Deepavali day and everyone is waiting for Anjelai’s famous Dum Biryani to be served. However, she and her daughter notice something amiss with the dish. Faced with a dilemma, Anjelai and her daughter must find a way to save Deepavali.
A short story about the rivalry between two roosters over a gorgeous hen.
An electrician, a cardboard lady, a dwarf and a crippled chicken rice hawker. Together, they dance with seven legs. These are the nameless bodies only known by their vocation and physical handicaps. They were immersed in oppression and yet developed a dispassion towards evil. They carry evil in their bodies but were not evil themselves. Rather, evil had been done to them and had marked their bodies with its effects.
A Vampire who has run out of blood supplies at home roams the empty void decks of Singapore at night in search of a new potential victim during the Circuit Breaker period.
Revisiting the Indonesian horror / exploitation films of the 80s and 90s that he loved as a teenager, Riar Rizaldi examines the ways in which these films – shown outside of the theatre and other formal spaces of the film industry – constitute a ‘cinematic elsewhere’.
Xiao Jie, a cheeky Nanyang Primary student, is forced by his mother, an NYGH alumna, to attend her former teacher's birthday celebrations. Over the course of the celebrations, Xiao Jie develops an appreciation for his school’s rich heritage through mini narratives set in the 1930s and 80s. The film also features actual interviews of alumni, who share the highlights of their school lives.
How does one change after having stared death in the face? In this hand-drawn animated short, a man’s love for watermelon becomes the catalyst for introspection.
Through the span of a taxi ride in Singapore, an immigrant mother reconciles with her son on their notion of home.
A father, who is also the discipline master at his son’s school, has to grapple with his own principles when his rebellious son breaks one of the school rules.
There are just some memories that continues to beat inside us like a second heart.
Long Pants (长裤) is a bittersweet story about a boy's rite of passage through the devastation of loss.
The piece is inspired by Le Guin's novel and by Vasulkas' lesson. A tribute to both of them. It looks like a drawing exercise but, recording in real time my left hand, the right hand was not holding a pencil but rather adjusting knobs and patching oscillators, of a Jones Raster Scan, similar to the Rutt Etra Scan Processor, but one of a kind built by Dave Jones for Sara Hornbacher. It looks easy, but it is not so comfortable, rather a process of prosthetization in which a very familiar part of the body becomes alien, sucked by the uncanny vortex of the machines, in which we believe to see a glimpse of creation, when two index fingers touch each others, but the triangulation ends up with a unsettling unity, summed up with an idiom, in Mandarin: 孤掌难鸣 meaning something like It’s hard to clap with only one hand.
Standing in Still Water reflects a few damaged lives, including a crippled young woman on the road of recovery; a man who sinks a dark secret to the bottom of the reservoir; the tale of a man struggling to recover from the loss of his daughter, and a young father who fails to reach out to his autistic son. The reservoir, the life-giver and life-taker, connects these four characters who face loss, death, hope, and love. And they are ultimately swept away by unrelenting waves of change.
"My Face" is a short film that tells the story about the psychological and emotional challenges faced by children with cleft and craniofacial anomalies. Presented by the Department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, KKH, the short film "My Face" hopes to raise awareness of the social stigmatisation they face.
The endless, frustrating quest to find just the right moment.
A wondrous, utterly engaging ballet of shapes, incredible creatures and pure, joyous animated movement.
A recollective animated film exploring what it was like to be a kid in 90’s Singapore. The film follows two unreliable but keen observers – a boy and a girl – as they deal with their outcast primary school lives.
We had the lovely opportunity to chat with Dennis & Jiamin, owners of Nylon Coffee Roasters. Their passion and love for coffee gave birth to their nice little 'coffeeshop' (as they both call it), right in the quaint residential neighbourhood of Everton Park. Don't be fooled by the small seating area of this little 'hole-in-the-wall' coffeeshop. Nylon Coffee Roasters source, roast (in-house) and serve their own coffee bean blends with love.
Iman film is a film that tells the question of the extent to which human beliefs accuse God and the extent to which people submit to Satan? Question of life and death? Iman film directed by KRS Sastry issue Run Run Shaw & Malay Film Productions Ltd.
A girl longs for an escape so deeply that she seemingly dreams about confronting the layers of bottled emotions caged behind her facade, clawing her way out of this life. A film adaptation of a poem by Cyril Wong from his book Oneiros.
Inspired by horror films and videos displayed on screens in shops, Cadence of a Prayer considers the abstraction of the queer, human, tropical body. Representations of flesh, body, and skin are coagulated into corporeal messes, as the body becomes ‘inhumanised’ through a combination of stretches, melts, and sweat.
It’s the early 2000s, the internet is new and janky and a 7 year old girl struggles to get access to an online game. A period piece about loneliness, the physicality of the early internet and finding happiness.
One of the first trans women on the scene, Kak Nina Boo made a name for herself as a recurring performer at Singapore’s only regular drag revue, RIOT!. This documentary explores how Nina grapples with her legacy and the importance of community in a scene saturated with newer, bolder acts.
Experimenting with looping and repetition, this powerful, short dance film offers a thought-provoking reflection on life as a dance with mortality. Partly filmed in an abandoned village—and threaded with the image of a fish trapped in life and death—the work explores memory, isolation, and the passing of time.
Amero, a passive and self-indulgent bystander, watches a peaceful protest for the oppressed Lotials from his balcony, crafting a half-hearted paper lotus in solidarity. When the protest is violently dispersed by the city guards, he retreats, shaken and unwilling to act. The next day, he encounters Eris, a defiant Lotial, who confronts him for his hollow support. In a misguided attempt to help, Amero gives Eris an energy seed, only to be led to a factory revealing the horrific reality of Lotials awaiting harvest.
A 14-minute documentary about grief and bereavement. As a topic that is often swept under the carpet, we have organised this film as a biography of grief through the lens of love, without shying away from the non-mutually exclusive pain. We feature three profiles who bring us through their grief, in relation to their own lives and to society – interactions with others who do not know how to properly express their support, and the societal pressure to move on quickly. We hope to impart a heightened level of grief literacy, and an informed version of empathy for the bereaved.
A young girl takes charge of her education. She transforms text into small plays and diagrams into dance. Amidst the stress of school work, she finds comfort in her own self-confidence and joy.