Tick... Tock. What is film without time? A famous director once referred to film as “sculpting in time”. Time is to a filmmaker what paint is to a painter—a material to shape and express meaning. Whether it is the time travel of science-fiction films, or the nostalgia of the past and memory, time pervades cinema. This year, we explore cinematic notions of time: transience of shuttering cinemas, voyages into the past, ills of the present, and anxieties for the future. PFF 2022 is anchored in innovative explorations of time through form and content, a testament to the richness of film’s temporality.
Scala’s Post-screening Q&A and Panel
Perspectives Film Festival is proud to invite Ananta Thitanat, the director of Scala; Chew Tee Pao, the lead archivist at the Asian Film Archive; Ben Slater, script editor and writer for features like Camera (2014) and Malam (2020); and Wong Han Min, a philatelist and reputable collector of film memorabilia with extensive knowledge of Singapore's social history, in a panel discussion on the death of cinema and its spaces. The panel will happen immediately after the screening of Scala, and will run for an hour beginning with a short Q&A session with director Thitanat. The topics covered are an extension of the themes in Scala, and include: cinema as an institution, cinema as a physical and spiritual entity, and cinema in the age of streaming.
Scala’s Post-screening Q&A and Panel
Perspectives Film Festival is proud to invite Ananta Thitanat, the director of Scala; Chew Tee Pao, the lead archivist at the Asian Film Archive; Ben Slater, script editor and writer for features like Camera (2014) and Malam (2020); and Wong Han Min, a philatelist and reputable collector of film memorabilia with extensive knowledge of Singapore's social history, in a panel discussion on the death of cinema and its spaces. The panel will happen immediately after the screening of Scala, and will run for an hour beginning with a short Q&A session with director Thitanat. The topics covered are an extension of the themes in Scala, and include: cinema as an institution, cinema as a physical and spiritual entity, and cinema in the age of streaming.
Dying Landmarks in the City
At 9pm on June 26 2022, the Cathay Cineplex at 2 Handy Road screened its last movie—Top Gun: Maverick—before shuttering its doors forever.1...
Can Love Endure Through the Ages?
Imagine entering a time portal. You can rewind time to encounter your partner before you were together or seek out a future version of them...
No, my therapy won’t fix things
We should celebrate going to therapy. For the longest time and for some sub-cultures today, to declare that we go for therapy sessions might...
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