International Competition: We seize only a bit of the curtain that hides the infinite from us. (Repeat Screening)
Tuesday, 18 January 2022
Image: A Man Trembles, Mark Chua, Lam Li Shuen, 2021
The haunting past reassembles itself, sometimes with permission, at times without. A former student, a father, a young woman and a young man wrangled with a history that intend to reveal and expose lingering dilemmas. Sometimes to seek the unknown, at times, in rediscovering the familiar.
Curated by Qila Gill
An Ode To A Time I Loved Bread
Neema Ngelime
11'
2021
Tanzania,United Republic of
A recollection of incomplete feelings about Neema, the filmmaker’s, time at a colonial legacy boarding school.
Listen To the Beat of our Images
Audrey Jean-Baptiste, Maxime JEAN-BAPTISTE
15'
2021
French Guiana
Sixty years ago, the French government decided to establish its space center in Kourou (French Guiana, South America). 600 guyanese people were expropriated to allow France to realize its dream of space conquest.
Combining field investigation and video-editing processes on archives, Listen To the Beat of our Images gives a voice to an invisibilized and silenced population.
Umbilical
Elpida Stathatou
13'
2021
Greece
The story of a young woman's struggle to separate from her religious and superstitious upbringing. As she battles her traumatic past she discovers exactly how far she will go to reconcile her internalised doubts.
A Man Trembles
Mark Chua, Lam Li Shuen
23'
2021
Singapore
In 1998 Singapore, at the peak of the Asian Financial Crisis, a man and his family spend their final day on Earth at Sentosa island. There, he comes to confront the peculiar closeness between salvation and terror.
as if nothing happened
JT Trinidad
13'
2021
Philippines
A journey to someone's personal gallery and an unsent letter.