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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...
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...
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...
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 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....