[SCREENING INVITE] EMCC Film Screening: In search of… the Singaporean Film
Posted on September 14, 2011 by hi.mingzhe under Events, Screenings | Comments Off
About the screening
Explore how Singaporean film engages identity through this screening of six works from the NUS Theatre Studies Programme’s module on Singapore Film. Followed by a Q&A session with the films’ director, these works will serve up slices of Singaporean life through shared memories (The Tourist), aspirations (Dot Dot Dot), meals (Chap Cai Png), relationships (In Between and New Beginnings) and multiculturalism (Help! I’m with the others, get me out of here!).
The films’ creators come together from different faculties in NUS and their academic specialties uniquely texture each film. Bite-sized shorts of no longer than ten minutes each, these films add to the ever-growing diversity of Singaporean film.
PROGRAMME
The films will be screened in the following order:
1) Help! I’m with the others. Get me out of here! (NC16)
Boxed in, cornered and trapped in a lift, a group’s suppressed prejudice towards each other starts to surface as they are forced to share an uncomfortably small space.
2) In Between (PG)
Separated by their faiths, Farhana and Marcus find themselves lost in their quest for love. Can love bridge their two worlds?
3) Dot Dot Dot (PG13)
Dot Dot Dot is a short film about a Singaporean who never stops dreaming about getting rich through “4D”, a four-digit lottery number game in Singapore.
4) Chap Cai Png (PG)
Chap Cai Png is a brief look into the lives of 4 stereotypical Singaporeans during lunch time at a local coffee shop. A delicious spread of judgement and misunderstanding is served up. Who are Singaporeans exactly.
5) New Beginnings (G)
Set in the well-trodden footpaths within the National University of Singapore, is a spin on a classic tale of boy-meets-girl. New Beginnings is a fairytale love story involving an all too-normal undergraduate, Wei Jie, and beautiful Sarah, the girl of his dreams. Through their day-to-day silent communications parodying modern-day instant messaging, Sarah helps to break the robotic monotony of Wei Jie’s student life, making him more “human”.
6) The Tourist (G)
Clarice, a young woman whose family had migrated to the United States in the early days of her youth, returns to Singapore for the first time in over a decade.
Upon arrival, it becomes clear to her that the Singapore she finds herself in bears little resemblance to the Singapore that she once called home. Thus beginning a search for the place of one of her fondest memories, a wanton mee stall in an old wet market.
A post-screening Q&A with the film directors will be held.
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We really hope to see you guys at welcome tea on 18th Aug (Free dinner will be provided). In case you can’t make it for welcome tea, you may directly attend the film school on 20th Aug. Thanks and see you at welcome tea & film school.
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