by Ashley Tham | Oct 23, 2021 | Opinion (2021)
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. ...
by Kelly Leow | Oct 22, 2021 | Guest Feature (2021)
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. *This article was...
by Leticia Sim | Oct 21, 2021 | BEHIND THE SCENES (2021)
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...
by Nicki Chan | Oct 20, 2021 | Opinion (2021)
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...
by Info PFF | Oct 18, 2021 | Visual Response (2021)
“All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability…Images transfix. Images anaesthetize.” – Susan Sontag, On Photography In Shooting the Mafia, the...
