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Asian Film Archive Collection: Singapore Shorts Vol. 2
Singapore Shorts Vol. 2 is the second installment in our anthology of
culturally important Singapore short films. There are a total of 9 short films:
A Family Portrait / Un Retrato De Familia (2004) directed by Boo Junfeng
Absence (1997) directed by K. Rajagopal
Autopsy (2007) directed by Loo Zihan
Gourmet Baby (2001)
directed by Sandi Tan
Imelda Goes to Singapore (2006) directed by Brian Gothong Tan
Labour of Love – The Housewife (1974-1979) directed by Rajendra Gour
Match Made (2006) directed by Mirabelle Ang
Wet Season (2007)
directed by Michael Tay Hong Khoon
Yesterday’s Play (2005) directed by Ryan Tan Wei Liang
PAL,
All regions, M18, ISBN: 978-981-08-1557-8
Audio: English, Mandarin, Tamil, Malayalam, Spanish, Teochew, Vietnamese,
Tagalog.
Subtitles: English
In Colour and Black & White
Approximate Running Time: 133 minutes
Bonus features:
- Audio commentaries by Boo Junfeng, Brian Gothong Tan, Cleo Clara, K. Rajagopal,
Lim Kay Tong, Loo Zihan, Michael Tay, Mirabelle Ang, Nora Samosir, Rajendra
Gour, Ryan Tan, Sharon Loh
- Restored audio of Labour of Love - The Housewife by Rajendra Gour using
tools to improve the sound-to-noise ratio and to reduce clicks, pops, hiss and
crackle
- Directors' notes
- Gallery of film stills
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"Vital evidence of the excellent work being done in Singapore." Dave Kehr, renowned film critic.
"Carefully curated from its ever expanding archives, this collection features some of the
most exciting lineup of creative works from established filmmakers, as well as
the up and coming rising stars that one should start to take note of....the
Asian Film Archive's Singapore Shorts Volume 2 makes itself a must-have for any
film aficionado with a thirst for Singapore films." - Stefan Shih,
http://anutshellreview.blogspot.com
More features on
Singapore
Shorts Vol. 2 website
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Storyboards | Essays by scholars and critics
Also check out Singapore Shorts Vol.
1 and
Royston's Shorts |
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DV Shorts by James Lee
120 minutes of Separation, Reunion, Betrayal and Love This DVD contains 8 short
films:
Sunflowers (2000)
Emu Kwan's Tragic Breakfast (2002)
Goodbye (2003)
Teatime With John (2003)
Goodbye to Love (2004)
A Moment of Love (2005)
Bernafas Dalam Lumpur (2005)
Sometimes Love Is Beautiful (2005)
Duration: 131 min Rating: NC16
Language: English, Mandarin, Malay Subtitles: English |
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The Four: Short Films by Woo Ming Jin
This DVD contains 4 short films:
Blue Roof (2007)
Albert, a security guard in an apartment complex, is a middle aged man who walks
with a limp, and is obsessed with collecting news articles on car accidents.
Each morning, during his rounds, he goes up to the rooftop, and contemplates
suicide. Will he ever jump?
Love For Dogs (2003)
Love for Dogs tells two parallel stories; A construction worker returns
to his hometown and tries to reconnect with his daughter after abandoning his
family to work in Cambodia. The second story follows Lily, an overweight girl
living with her aunt and dealing with the absence of her immediate family.
Catching The Sea (2005)
Catching the Sea is a short film about the lives of several people in a
village after a mysterious disease strikes and kills their loved ones. Set in a
dilapidating fishing island, the film is about reconciling death and moving on
with life.
It's Possible Your Heart Cannot Be Broken (2005) Ah Tat, a dreamy
simpleton romantic meets the jaded but equally insecure Apple. Can these two
people- obviously completely different yet yearning for the same thing- sustain
their relationship?
Duration: 66 min
Rating: PG
Language: Malay / Mandarin
Subtitles: English
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Flower In the Pocket by Liew Seng Tat
Li Ahh and Li Ohm grow up motherless. They are neglected by their father Sui, a
workaholic who spends the bulk of his time mending broken mannequins in his
workshop. While he shuts himself out from the world, the two brothers roam the
streets, get into fights and other troubles in school but for all they want is
just love and to be loved.
“A touching and humanistic story that tells a neglected father-and-sons
relationship with a sense of humor, while using a simply and beautifully
composed cinematic style.” - Dariush MEHRJUIM, Head of Jury & Iranian master
cineaste, 12th Pusan International Film Festival
“Flower In The Pocket is constantly, quietly, astonishing. A
little film with big, deep pockets, Flower is equal parts childhood idyll,
absurdist comedy, gentle social satire and family mystery.” - Shelly Kraicer,
Film Programmer of Vancouver Film Festival
New Current Award, 12th Pusan International Film Festival
2007
KNN Audience Award, 12th Pusan VPRO Tiger Award, 37th
International Film Festival Rotterdam 2008
«Le Regard d’Or» (Golden Gaze) Award, 22nd FRIBOUR
International Film Festival 2008.
Jury prize (Lotus du Jury), 10th Deauville Asian Film
Festival 2008
LINO MICCICHE' PESARO NUOVO CINEMA Prize, 44th Pesaro Film
Festival 2008
Bonus Materials: a bonus DVD which contains Production
Stills, Promo Videos, and The Making of Flower In The Pocket.
Year of Production : 2007
Country of Production : Malaysia
Duration: 97 Minutes
Languages : Mandarin & Malay
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Waiting for Love by James Lee
Three scenes about three couples with each portraying maybe the turning point of
their relationship. First scene, Lim & Amelia are a couple who had been together
for almost five years. While he works as a salesman and trying to save up for
marriage, the girl are not sure if he's the one she wants to marry. One day he
confronts her about a letter from her admirer. Second scene, Pete & Bernice are
a couple who had been together almost ten years. They're not married because he
doesn?t believe in marriage. While she tags along, one day she might realizes
this may not be the man she wants to end up with. Third scene, we see Amy & Lai
are a pair of secret lovers. This maybe their last meeting or maybe not. They
may had loved each other in the past they may not now in this scene. This is the
third and final part of James Lee's Love Trilogy which takes offers a glimpse of
the life of three lovers.
Bonus Material in DVD: a 13 minute short film "Wall" Year of Completion: August
2007 (World Premiere – 12th Pusan International Film Festival)
Country of Production: Malaysia
Duration: 70 Min
Languages: Mandarin & Cantonese
Subtitle: English & Mandarin
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Before We Fall in Love Again by James Lee
It has been a month Chang's wife Ling Yue has been missing. With
no reasons one fine day she went to work as usual and then never returns. No one
knows where she went or what had happened to her. Chang could not figure out why
she disappears out of the sudden. She left no message of whatever kind or clues.
One day a man named Tong shows up and claims to be Ling Yues lover. Apparently
Tong is looking for Ling Yue too. In a turn of event both men formed an uneasy
alliance in order to find Ling Yue.
Bonus Material in DVD: Interviews, rehearsal footage, trailer, music video.
Year of Production: 2006
Country of Production: Malaysia
Duration: 99 mins
Language: Mandarin/Cantonese
Subtitle : English & Mandarin
Awards: BEST ASEAN FEATURE FILM-Bangkok International Film Festival 2007.
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Love Conquers All by Tan Chui Mui
A love story. At first sight maybe a simple love story. About how blind a girl
in love can be. Slowly but unavoidable the story will become less simple, will
raise more questions without giving too many answers.
Main character - if not main victim - is Ah Peng (Coral Ong Li Whei). A common
girl from Penang. She arrives in some outskirt of Kuala Lumpur to find work in
the economy rice stall of her aunt. She is taken in by the family like an older
daughter and shares a room with little sister Mei (Leong Jiun Jiun). In a way
Mei is the main character - and certainly no victim - of her own love story with
a mysterious pen pal. The indolent Ah Peng and the bright and lively Mei get
along very well. Like real sisters. Ah Peng has a boy friend in Penang.
Regularly she makes her way to the public phones to make her ritual call. Fate
has it that just there she attracts the attention of John (Stephen Chua Jyh
Shyan). John shamelessly listens in on the conversations between Ah Peng and her
boy friend and right there starts a relationship that has to be doomed. John
even tells her - in the same shameless way - how to lure a girl into
prostitution. But revealing this can not stop this fatal story. (Gertjan
Zuilhof)
Winner of Golden Digital Award (31st Hong Kong International Film Festival),
VPRO Tiger Award (36th International Film Festival Rotterdam), New Currents
Award and FIPRESCI Award (11th Pusan International Film Festival).
"This film is using a known cinematic language in a nice way telling the life of
a village girl who is going to a big city to work and face the reality and the
morality of our time." – Istvan Szabo (chairman), Bruno Dumont, Abolfazl Jalili,
Daniel Yu, Moon So-Ry
"The FIPRESCI jury gives its award to Love Conquers All, for its audacious
narrative structure and its intelligent work with sound and image." -Chris
Fujiwara (chairman), Susanna Harutyunyan, Helmut Merker, Kim Seemoo
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Sentimental Fabulations, Contemporary Chinese Films by
Rey Chow
Through nine contemporary Chinese directors (Chen Kaige, Wong Kar-wai, Zhang
Yimou, Ann Hui, Peter Chan, Wayne Wang, Ang Lee, Li Yang, and Tsai Ming-liang),
Chow proposes that the sentimental is a discursive constellation traversing
affect, time, identity, and social mores, a constellation whose contours tends
to morph under different historical circumstances and in different genres and
media. In contemporary Chinese films, she argues, the sentimental consistently
takes the form not of revolution but of compromise, not of radical departure but
of moderation, endurance, and accommodation. By naming these films sentimental
fabulations—screen artifacts of cultural becoming with irreducible aesthetic,
conceptual, and speculative logics of their own—Chow presents Chinese cinema
first and foremost as an invitation to the pleasures and challenges of critical
thinking.
“[Chow] captivates us with her challenging and refreshing arguments. Highly
recommended.”— Library Journal
“A brilliant new book . . . essential for all literary, cinema, and cultural
studies scholars.”
— E. Ann Kaplan, Director of the Humanities Institute at Stony Brook
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Being and Becoming: The Cinemas of Asia Edited by: Aruna
Vasudev, Latika Padgaonkar, Rashmi Doraiswamy
This collection of essays brings together the history and the current trends
in the cinemas of thirty countries of Asia—from Japan to India to Turkey and
Kazakhstan to Indonesia. It does not claim to cover the entire region, but by
virtue of its sheer scope and diversity of content, necessarily provides a
bird’s eyeview of cinema in Asia. It examines the impetus for cinema’s
development or the reasons for its stagnation, at different moments as the case
may be. It is a telling, and often times, even a sobering picture that emerges
through this collection. It offers an approach to Asian cinema, which is serious
without being academic, all the while communicating the excitement for a cinema
which is yet to be fully explored.
[Please note that the book covers are not in mint condition due to less than
favourable delivery from source.] |
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Asian Film Archive Collection: Singapore Shorts
(2nd Ed. with new subtitles)
9 award winning Singapore short films have been specially selected for the
inaugural Singapore Shorts DVD Compilation: 3 Feet Apart by Jason Lai,
Autograph Book by Wee Li Lin, Birthday by Bertrand Lee, Locust
by Victric Thng, Mother by Royston Tan,
Moving House by Tan Pin Pin, The Call Home by Han Yew Kwang,
The Secret Heaven by Sun Koh, While You Sleep by Eva Tang.
"Film buffs can now take home some of the best local short films." - Sherwin
Loh, Straits Times LIFE!
"我们的骄傲 - 短而精悍; 风格多样, 题材具人性." - 林伟, U Weekly
- "Good films record the lives of characters who seek the truth, who love, yearn
and desire, who deal with complexities in themselves or their worlds. Singapore
Shorts took me into the multiple hearts, minds and souls of the human mosaic of
Singapore..."
Read full review by Gary Simmons (The Australian Centre for
the Moving Image)
- "I would strongly recommend "Singapore Shorts" as what by any standards is a
very fine and entertaining collection indeed - and a remarkable and laudable
undertaking by the AFA..."
Read full review by Mathias Ortmann (Berlin, Germany)
- "The strength of the DVD is that it shows how this generation of filmmakers
have fresh, distinctive and ‘other’ voices, something that the creatively
conservative major media in Singapore (print, TV, film) generally avoid like the
plague..."
Read full review by Ben Slater (SPAFA Journal)
* 3 Feet Apart is rated NC16. The rest of the shorts in the compilation is PG.
* Also check out
Singapore Shorts Vol 2 and Royston's Shorts |
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The Traveling Circus by Viet Linh
Director Viet Linh tells the bittersweet story of a small traveling circus from
Hanoi stopping in an impoverished ethnic minority village in Vietnam’s central
highlands. Through the eyes of a village youngster, we witness the magic of the
circus, and the naïve hope that illusion can be transformed into reality.
Winner of the UNICEF Jury Prize at the 1991 Berlin Film Festival.
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When The Tenth Month Comes by Dang Nhat Minh
A haunting portrait of a woman’s struggle with loss and personal sacrifice
during the war. When The Tenth Month Comes is a lyrical vision of the endurance
of Vietnamese women from one of Vietnam’s most renowned directors, Dang Nhat
Minh. In the final days of the war, a beautiful young woman, Duyen, faces a
daily struggle to take care of her young son and ailing father-in-law, all the
while hiding from them the fact that her husband has recently been killed in a
battle. Keeping her secret burden to herself, she is befriended by the village
schoolmaster, Zhang, who agrees to fabricate letters from her dead husband in
order to spare her family sorrow. As their friendship deepens, Duyen and Zhang
find themselves drawn closer to intimacy. The movie’s title refers to the month
in which the “Day of Forgiveness” occurs; a time when it is said that departed
souls may visit loved ones still living.
Winner of the Special Jury Award at the 1985 Hawaii International Film Festival.
Voted by CNN in Sep 2008 as one of the best 18 Asian films of all time. |
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Nostalgia for the Countryside by Dang Nhat Minh
Powerful and poetic, Nostalgia for the Countryside explores the tensions and
traumas of everyday life in a rural Vietnamese village. The arrival from abroad
of Quyen, who fled the village as a small girl, coincides with the sexual
awakening of 17-year-old Nham, through whose eyes the story unfolds. While
picturesque on the surface, the countryside that Quyen dreamed about turns out
to be a landscape of poverty, passion and tragedy – though not without pockets
of warmth and humor.
Winner of the NETPAC award at the 1996 Rotterdam International Film Festival.
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Critic After Dark: A Review of Philippine Cinema by Vera,
Noel
Critic After Dark is a collection of writing by one of the best Filipino
critics. It collects a decades worth of Vera’s writing on Philippine Cinema
(1994-2004), is divided into five parts; Part 1: Filipino Films, Part 2:
Tributes and Festivals, Part 3: Interviews, Part 4: Plays, and Part 5: Catholic
Films.
"To those who think there is no more such a thing as film criticism in the
Philippines, just read Noel Vera’s reviews and articles."
- Max Tessier, film critic. |
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Asian Film Archive Collection: Royston's Shorts
This compilation of short films from Royston Tan traces the creative journey of
one of the most promising talents from Asia. From an homage to a soon-to-be
demolished kopitiam in Hock Hiap Leong, to a son’s tribute to his
parents in Sons, they reveal a softer, more personal side of Royston
Tan. The DVD features his latest short film, Monkeylove, which was shot
in Japan. Also featured in the DVD is a 25-minute Interview with Royston Tan
where he discusses some of his short films and stylistic influences. Another
highlight is the inclusion of rarely seen films like 4A Florence Close,
a film about his family’s move from their home at the height of the financial
crisis.
Visit the
Royston's
Shorts DVD Website to find the online special features
including a gallery of film stills, behind the scenes stills, storyboards and
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Three Short Films by Tan Chui Mui
This compilation includes A Tree in Tanjung Malim, South of South and Company of
Mushrooms.
Tree in Tanjung Malim won the Principal Prize at the 51st Oberhausen
International Film Festival and is a fictional autobiography of the filmmaker's
youth; Company of mushrooms is a story of a boozy gathering of friends; South of
south is a film about the Chinese diasporas and how centuries of war and famines
have made eating a ritual.
"Malaysia's most promising young female director." - Amir Muhammed.
"A cinema of tenderness and hesitations." - Olaf Muller. |
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Latent Images – Film In Singapore by Jan and Yvonne Uhde
This CD-Rom is a comprehensive digital research and educational information
source on Singapore cinema – an indispensable tool for both the film
professional, the student as well as the wider public interested in their
country’s culture. Based on the authors’ groundbreaking book Latent Images: Film
In Singapore (Oxford University Press, 2000), this CD-ROM integrates written
word, stills and moving images and sound, with the advantages of hypertext.
Topics discussed include Singapore’s film production history, New Singapore
cinema after 1990, Singapore’s cinemas past and present, the role of film and
cultural organizations, film and media education, film censorship in Singapore.
This CD-ROM also contains revised and updated material (as of end of 2002), of
new historical information and discoveries, individual film commentaries, film
clips and illustrations, audiovisual interviews with filmmakers and
professionals, an index of Singapore films from 1933 to 2002.
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Project A.M.I.S.S.: A Made In Singapore Story. Vol 1 2006
A Made In Singapore Story (A.M.I.S.S.) is a publication of story outputs arising
from writing workshops conducted by the Screenwriters Association of Singapore
(SWA). This publication is supported by Creative Community Singapore under
Project AMISS and is a collection of stories written during the Pitching Hour
2005 (MCYS Shine Program) and the NUS Creative Arts Program 2006.
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The Elephant And The Sea by Woo Ming Jin (Rated M18)
Year of Production: 2008
Country of Production: Malaysia
Duration: 95 mins
Language: Mandarin Awards: Best Film, Lisbon Village Film
Festival, 2008; Best Director, Diba Barcelona Film Festival, 2008; Special Jury
Prize, Torino International Film Festival, 2007; Best Director and Critics
Award, CInema Digital Seoul Film Festival, 2007.
Synopsis: The Elephant and The Sea follows the lives of two individuals in the
aftermath of a water borne disease that strikes their fishing village. Has there
been a disaster? A deadly epidemic?
A week after the disease takes the life of his wife, Ah Ngau, a fisherman by
trade, is sent home with $300 in aid from the government and a cardboard box of
useless "donations" from the public. Instead of grieving for his wife, Ah Ngau
appears to have found a new sense of freedom, meeting a prostitute and
experiencing a long delayed sexual awakening.
Yun Ding makes a living doing an assortment of odd jobs, following his "big
brother" Long Chai around. Mostly they cheat and hustle their way around, living
off the naivete of the public. When Long Chai succumbs to the disease, Ding has
to make it on his own. But can a person with no direction in his life find
something to hold on to?
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The Pirate and The Emperor's Ship by Khoo Eng Yow (Rated PG)
Year of Production: 2008
Country of Production: Malaysia
Duration: 80 mins
Language: Mandarin
Subtitle : English & Chinese
Synopsis: The notorious "Pirate King" Tan Lian Lay once
terrorised the waters of Perak Malaysia and Bagan Siapi-Api, Indonesia. His
personal story and the history of his coastal bases are a mix of fact, fiction,
legend, myth and religious belief.
Director Khoo Eng Yow and field researcher Lee Eng Kew (aka Ah
Kew) retrace how a notorious criminal went from being a powerful gang leader to
a hunted man, and later became revered as a deity. It is a story that
encompasses the WWII Japanese occupation of South East Asia, the British
colonial rule, and the power of the assimilation of myth into history, which
still affects people today. |
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