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Ticketing Info to Retrospective Screenings
Each ticket to the retrospective screenings is $8 / $7
concession. Tickets are available at The Substation box
office
from 1 September 2005 onwards. Opening hours: Monday to Friday
12 - 8.30 pm, Tel: 65-6337 7800. For enquires, please call or email
forum@asianfilmarchive.org.
Ask for one free pass from the box office to the panel
session: Focus on Eric Khoo when you make your purchase, at the
same time, of all 3 tickets to Eric Khoo’s retrospective
screenings. First come first served. Subject to availability.
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5 Shorts from Eric Khoo
Barbie Digs Joe (1990) was the
first
Singapore short film to make it to film
festivals abroad. It won five awards, including
Best Film at the Singapore Video Competition.
Official selection: Hawaii International
Film Festival, Berlin Interfilm Festival, South East
Asian Film Festival (Amsterdam), PIA Festival
(Tokyo)
Starring Tan Tee Keon and Jacintha,
August
(1991)
won the Silver Screen Award for Best
Singapore Short Film at the 4th Singapore
International Film Festival.
Official selection: Hawaii International
Film Festival, Clermont- Ferrand Film Festival, South
East Asian Film Festival (Amsterdam), ASEAN
Young Cinema Festival (Tokyo)
Carcass (1992),
(shot in Hi 8 and edited
in Beta) made with writer Nazir Hussain, is a
gritty, realistic story of a butcher and his two
sons. With a daily grind of chopping and carving
animal flesh, the overwhelming problem in the
lives of these men is how to forget. The father
pickles himself in alcohol, ranting at his son
in rash Hokkien. One son silently endures his
father's tirades; the other frequents
prostitutes, another kind of flesh
peddler. Documentary sequences at the abbatoire
alternating with working class TV fantasies
cleanly expose the psychic constructions of
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(Japan), Clermont- Ferrand Film Festival
(France), South East Asian Film Festival
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Symphony 92.4 FM (1993)
is a sympathetic
documentary style self-portrait of an old
Chinese man living alone. This almost silent
study of loss and isolation is both iconographic
and very warm. The film affectionately
characterizes a man whose loss of a pet reflects
the tenuousness of his own life. It is delicate
and memorable - difficult to believe it was shot
on Super 8 film in 3 days for $250.
Official selection: Hawaii International Film
Festival, Yamagata Film Festival (Japan), San
Francisco International Film Festival |
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Pain
A story about a sado-masochistic young man who
tortures and then kills another won both the
Best Director and Special Achievement awards at
the 1994 Singapore International Film Festival.
Official selection: Toronto International Film
Festival, 13th Vancouver International Film
Festival, Festival International Du Film
D'Amiens (For Competition), Calcutta
International Film Festival, Olympia Film
Festival, Rotterdam International Film Festival, Mondial De La Video/Festival, International Du
Film (For Competition), Hong Kong International
Film Festival, San Francisco International Film
Festival, Asian Film Festival/ Asian-American
Federation of Florida Inc., Fukuoka Asian Film
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Ticket Price:
$7/8
Date:
9 September, 05
Friday
Time:
2100
Duration:
141 min
Venue:
Singapore History Museum
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Mee Pok Man (1995)
Lonely, misunderstood and ridiculed, the mee pok
man runs an all-night fish-ball noodle stall in
a notorious part of Singapore. His patrons are
denizens of the night, a motley assortment of
characters from the seamier side of life. Among
them is Bunny, a disillusioned prostitute who is
controlled by villainous pimp, Mike Kor (Lim Kay
Tong) and his band of hoodlums. Bunny dreams
often of escaping her dreary existence and pins
her hopes on her sleazy English boyfriend,
Jonathan Reese (David Brazil). Unknown to Bunny,
the mee pok man is obsessed with her. He sees
her as a fragile angel whom he must rescue from
the muck and filth she is mired in. An accident
brings them together. But just as the two lonely
souls begin to connect, Fate intervenes and
deals them a cruel hand. Cheated of his
happiness, the mee pok man rejects society and
dives headlong into a relationship that is at
once touching as it is bizarre.
Awards: Special Mention Prize from the
International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI)
at 8th Singapore International Film Festival,
Special Jury Prize at 9th Fukuoka Asian Film
Festival - July 1996, Special Mention from the
Jury - New Currents Award - Best New Asian
Director at 1st Pusan International Film
Festival - September 1996, 9th Moscow
International Film Festival (Competition), 14th
Vancouver international Film Festival
(Competition), Festival de Films de Fribourg
(Competition)
"Mee Pok Man is the best piece of local film
in too long a time. More importantly, it holds
that quality cinema is truly a possibility in
Singapore."
Corinne Kerk, Business Times
"Mee Pok Man is a film I really enjoyed. Eric
Khoo has all the makings of a wonderful film
maker."
John Anderson, New York Film Critics
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Ticket Price:
$7/8
Date:
10 September '05 Saturday
Time:
1900
Duration:
105 min
Venue:
Singapore History Museum
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12 Storeys (1997)
The film depicts a day in a HDB block of
residential flats in Singapore with all the
action occuring within a 24-hour period. There
are essentially three main storylines:
China Bride
Ah Gu (Jack Neo), a middle-aged man has brought
home a pretty young wife from China (Quan Yifeng),
but he has to cope with her overly high
expectations, and hence increasing frustation
and disappointment with life in Singapore.
San San
San San (Lucilla Teoh) lives alone with only
suicide on her mind. A meeting with the daughter
of her mother's former employer, Rachel (Neo
Swee Lin) acts as a trigger for an outpouring of
sadness.
Sister's Keeper
With parents away, upright but overbearing
eldest brother Meng (Koh Boon Pin) takes the
opportunity to lord it over his rebellious
younger sister, Trixie (Lum May Yee) and little
brother Tee (Roderick Lim). Meng's persisitent
interest in Trixie's personal life leads to
first, an interrogation, then an argument, and
ultimately something far more explosive.
Awards: UOB Young Cinema Award at 10th Singapore
International Film Festival, NETPAC - FIPRESCI
Critic's Prize at 10th Singapore International
Film Festival, Golden Maile Award (Best Film
17th Hawaii International Film Festival), 50th
Cannes Film Festival
"It is funny, touching and sometimes
excruciating in exactly the right ways"
Tony Rayns Film Critic
"The most important Singaporean film yet
made"
Derek Malcolm, Chief Film Critic of the
Guardian
"Bravo!"
Edward Yang, Film Director
"From public housing to the Cannes Croisette"
Asia Week |
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Ticket Price:
$7/8
Date:
10 September '05 Saturday
Time:
2100
Duration:
105 min
Venue:
Singapore History MuseumPG |
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