In celebration of selling out our only physical screening of the year, the Singaporean premiere of Leos Carax’s absolutely bonkers Annette, we invited animator and illustrator @mere.space to draw a suitably cryptic but succinct visual response to a crucial scene in the film. And no, it isn’t that scene with Adam Driver. Get your head out of the gutter!
Being an arts practitioner in a conservative city-state is exhausting. What do you do when your own rulers ban your hard work?Before Disney’s Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker hit Singapore cinemas, a scene was cut from the movie in order for the movie to be rated PG13 instead of being restricted to those 18 and older. The scene in question? A brief, blink-or-you’ll-miss-it kissing scene between two minor female characters in the background.
In an attempt to join a local alien-worshipping religion—central to The Prophet and the Space Aliens—I attempted to infiltrate the movement and talked to the head of the Singapore branch to get a better picture of Raëlism and debunk some myths. When I first heard about a cult that worshipped aliens, I immediately marked it off as just a bunch of crazy people and didn’t really bother looking it up.
No, this isn’t clickbait. Our new algorithmic overlords churn out their artistic take on our festival’s line-up. The result? An AI-generated mish mash of equally bizarre yet oddly compelling graphics. OK, Computer. Many of our films, especially the exciting new indie features, We’re All Going To The World’s Fair and Strawberry Mansion, feature the cohesion of technology and basically everything else.
Strawberry Mansion directors Albert Birney and Kentucker Audley reflect on their nostalgic influences, the patchwork magic of collaboration, and the shared erratic keys of filmmaking. In the 90s, Doug Martsch of Built to Spill somehow distilled a whole ineffable feeling of concentrated yearning, wonder, and youthful grandiosity when he belted
This year’s lineup was never meant to scare, but to be an entry point to a bizarre, inexplicable world for everyone to make their own. *This article was originally published in our 2021 Programme Booklet. It has been adapted and reformatted for the web.
Of rabbit holes, algorithms, and symbols. Our guest writer Kelly Leow delves into a formal exploration of how Jane Schoenbrun portrays the darkness of the internet with surprising tenderness.
Warning: Brief spoilers Ahead! Best read after watching.
In the fantastical world of Strawberry Mansion, humans and anthropomorphic creatures co-exist in absurdist fashion. It’s only fitting, then, for the animals—both inside and outside the film—to tell the story of the movie’s conception. *This article was originally published in our 2021 Programme Booklet. It has been
There’s almost always a violent horror film showing in local mainstream theatres, but here’s why I don’t care—and neither should you. In one film, a woman is carelessly rend into two halves, red spilling outwards and cleaving her apart from the crotch up as an animated depiction of
In Shooting the Mafia, the images that photographer Letizia Battaglia captured in the streets of Sicily took aim at the heart of the Mafia—the aftermath of senseless murders, the spontaneous portraits of crusading anti-Mafia political figures, and the striking faces of grieving families.
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