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A young couple from Chengdu, China, struggles to build a perfect home in Singapore. As their dream of becoming Singaporeans seems more and more remote, they decide to go and see the pandas.
It has been 11 years since Diana passed away from a chronic illness that crippled her family for more than a decade before she passed on. Diana’s daughter - X - revisits her journey of grief and loss through the lenses of people who she deemed were close to her mother when she was still alive.
A girl tries to wake a cat that is sleeping on her laptop using various methods.
“Cryptid Hunter” is a 2D animated “documentary” following a passionate monster enthusiast’s search for elusive cryptids. He spends the day out deep in a forest, but will he spot any of these secretive creatures?
Erik, a worker on a floating fish farm, is unable to return home after two years as planned. As he nurses his sorrow, his loneliness manifests a sea spirit who challenges his self-pity.
An elderly security officer diagnosed with lung cancer talks to God. One day, he wins the lottery—but there is little relief.
A silent film, Xin Ke (The Immigrant) is the story of a newcomer (played by Zheng Chaoren) to Singapore from mainland China, living in a mansion of wealthy relatives, unfamiliar with the customs of Southeast Asia (Malaya and Singapore), suffering and being excluded everywhere. After his own efforts, he is finally accepted and loved.
For the first time in 57 years, Ah Guan walks the streets with his simple signboard for all to see: ‘HONEST MAN NEED (sic) A WIFE.’ His only requirement? ‘A pretty back.’ A morally complex inquest that dismantles the voyeuristic sensibilities enabled by documentaries, 蒙在股里 (HIS BOTTOM LINE) explores the motivations behind Ah Guan’s strangely specific condition for love and antidote to his loneliness.
JULIET’S DINNER is a collaborative experimental film between Elsa Wong and Stephanie Jane Burt featuring the track, “Last Day” by Subsonic Eye, which follows the character Juliet who escapes a dinner party through an encounter with an enigmatic dollhouse. Originally created for video art platform Monzoom.xyz in a 12-part series, the video explores notions of identity, pop culture and translocal histories through karaoke and sci-fi aesthetics.
A dizzying tale of forbidden love between three individuals from the Republic of Synkie. With a flourishing kelp industry that is turning the country’s capital into Kelpital, the bearing of a Kelpitalocene upon the contemporary struggles of the Synkie people is reflected through the lives of Eden, Yasmyn and Wan Ting. In a non-linear ocean of visual fantasy, eco-enterprise, cult economy and alternative imaginings of spirituality, the protagonists find themselves mired in a “rupturing apocalypse of the harrowing heart”.
Reality is a perception and it changes with perspective. Every individual who falls victim to a fatal accident is a character in their own right, but reduced to a mere number in the media! Inspired by Akira Kurosawa’s ‘Rashomon’, ‘Testimony of a Thread’ is a monologue collage in search of a face behind the numbers of the deadliest structural failure accident in modern human history.
"Unearthly" is a 3D Animation short focused on two siblings who discover a macaque and fox mask in a forest. When worn, the masks allow them to take on animal traits. Things take a darker turn when the masks begin working on them in unexpected ways. But is it always the animal who turns out more savage than man?
At a traffic junction in Singapore, the Green Man refuses to show up. Various types of pedestrians appear - the law abiders, impatient jaywalkers, government critics and clueless playful children. Will they cross the road on red? Who would they blame for the fault?
A migrant worker stays in a hotel for the first time in his life - except it isn’t really a vacation for him.
Merlion sells rojak at a local hawker center. All his life confused by his mixed identity of fish and lion, he seeks to find an answer within himself.
In the wake of his grandfather’s passing, Raga accompanies his grieving grandmother. A faint yet familiar smell piques his curiosity, leading him on a journey of self-discovery in the fading apartment.
Sylvia is undergoing an experimental medical treatment to find out what caused her brush with death. The doctors go through her recent memories in order to confront traumatic experiences that may have lead up to the attempt at her life.
The worldʼs most valuable fashion brand LK stages the largest ever fashion show, a redefined season that will drift aboard an archive of the traditions of the endangered Indian Ajrakhpur block printing, unfolding a spectacle at a container port once in a decade. The very industrial mechanisms that have created disposable fashion seasons have been reengineered to celebrate and value traditional handcraft. Once a decade, people chase after it like the Northern Lights.
In the Chinese dialect of Hokkien, "Kua Bo" stands for "cannot see". Affected by cataract, 60-year-old Tat Chuan has problems with his vision which he refuses to admit or treat. It is only after a huge blunder of seeing the lottery results wrongly that he willingly - but timidly - attends a cataract surgery.
Escape Velocity II is an experiential experiment that brings the wild ethereal voices of Singaporeans to life through animation and sound visualisation. The film seeks to bridge human and non-human worlds.
In 2017, the infamous Sungei Road Thieves Market, which predates the founding of Singapore by over 30 years, was forced to close and make way for the future. Its impending closure ignited dialogues about the value of heritage, heart for the disenfranchised, and sentimentality for history. In documenting its final days, this documentary also serves as a one-of-a-kind time capsule for future generations to experience the sun-baked streets of the Thieves Market, its characters and items galore.
Cats may be superbly adapted killing machines of the night but every master meets their match sooner or later.
A deep dive into a living, breathing, transforming mosaic.
Life is about choices – some are grisly, some involve ice cream.