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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) by Boo Junfeng
Absence (1997) by K. Rajagopal
Autopsy (2007) by Loo Zihan
Gourmet Baby (2001) by Sandi Tan
Imelda Goes to Singapore (2006) by Brian Gothong Tan
Labour of Love – The Housewife (1978) by Rajendra Gour
Match Made (2006) by Mirabelle Ang
Wet Season (2007) by Michael Tay Hong Khoon
Yesterday’s Play (2005) 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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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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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 97 Minutes Languages : Mandarin & Malay
Subtitles : English & Mandarin
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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)
Cou 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
Format: Hardback, 580 pages
Published: Macmillian India Ltd
ISBN: 033-39-3820-8 |
SGD$36 |
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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 1 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.
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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
Format: DVD, 110 min running time
ALL Region, PAL, English subtitles
ISBN: 981-05-5729-9
Rated PG |
from SGD$75
(for sch/org use) |
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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 scripts. |
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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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