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Singapore Panorama, Singapore International Film Festival 2022
Absent Smile
World Premiere at Singapore Panorama, Singapore International Film Festival 2022
Ten years after an elderly couple takes a special portrait with their absent son who lives overseas, their sense of yearning grows into a habit where long distance phone calls and mundane repetitions are temporary remedies to a complex longing.
Screening: Thursday, December 1, 2022
Time: 6:30pm
Tickets on sale on November 2, 2022
Venue: Golden Village Plaza, Hall 9
Address: 68 Orchard Road, Plaza Singapura, Singapore 238839
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The Singapore International Film Festival (SGIFF) is the longest-running film festival in Singapore. The festival has a focus on showcasing international films and providing a global platform for the best of Singapore and Southeast Asian cinema.
Singapore Panorama: Presenting the latest feature and short films that showcase talents in local filmmaking, with its finger on the pulse of the most exciting developments in Singapore cinema.
Thursday Cinema "What is normal, anyway?"
The program reflects upon shared concerns of our current time, while accentuating emerging possibilities of the ways we relate to the world. Posed as a rhetorical question, What is normal, anyway? tackles the idea of social constructs through unique settings of diverse cultures, and examines how established ways affect the complex and vast systems we live in. Bringing the notion of normality into question through individual and collective narratives, the selection also highlights the potential of storytelling in envisioning the future.
A Love Unknown
Screening: Thursday, June 30, 2022
Time: 7pm
Venue: SALT Beyoğlu Walk-in Cinema
Online: Friday - Sunday, July 1 - 3, 2022
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The Natural History of an Island
The Natural History of an Island, a group exhibition curated by Gwen Lee
Exhibition Date: November 26, 2021 - January 3, 2022
Venue: Jimei x Arles International Photo Festival, Xiamen, China
Artists: Ang Song Nian, Marvin Tang, Geraldine Kang, Chow & Lin, Zhao Renhui, Syahrul Anuar, John Clang, Kevin W Y Lee
https://www.rencontres-arles.com/en/jimei-x-arles-2021international-photo-festival/
Asian Film Festival Barcelona
A Love Unknown
Asian Film Festival Barcelona 2021
Two distant strangers, a woman in New York and her abandoned daughter she has never met in Singapore, try to break their endless fall into depression towards a better life. Elsewhere in a parallel universe, they live different fates.
Date: October 28 - November 10, 2021
Watch it on FILMIN (online), click HERE
https://asianfilmfestival.barcelona/2021/film-item/a-love-unknown/
5th Passage: In Search of Lost Time
5th Passage: In Search of Lost Time, a group exhibition curated by John Tung
Exhibition Date: September 24 - October 17, 2021
Venue: Gajah Gallery Singapore
Artists: Chu Chu Yuan, Eve Tan, Jason Lim, John Clang, Kai Lam, Ray Langebach, Siew Kee Liong, Susie Lingham, Susie Wong, Suzann Victor
In 1991, 5th Passage was founded by a small group of emerging Singaporean artists who strived to bring the arts to the public. Setting up their space in the fifth-floor passageway of Parkway Parade, Singapore’s first major suburban mall, 5th Passage situated itself within the ‘ready-made public’ of civic centres, and became Singapore’s first corporate-sponsored artist-run initiative. A number of substantial exhibitions, events, and activities were realised while the collective operated between 1991 and 1996. They experimented with varied site-specific, contemporary mediums, such as performance art and installation, and addressed a wide range of social concerns, from race, gender and sexuality, to the environment. In doing so, they sparked urgent conversations that spoke to the lived realities of their public.
Yet, the historicisation of 5th Passage remains conspicuously absent from dominant narratives of the country’s art history. Recognising that the remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were, 5𝙩𝙝 𝙋𝙖𝙨𝙨𝙖𝙜𝙚: 𝙄𝙣 𝙎𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙘𝙝 𝙤𝙛 𝙇𝙤𝙨𝙩 𝙏𝙞𝙢𝙚 looks to memories of the collective’s existence to reconstitute a basis for establishing the initiative’s significance within the wider arc of the country’s arts and cultural development. Bringing together artists who had presented works under its auspices, this exhibition revives in the wider public consciousness the plethora of programmes that articulated the initiative’s ideals and aspirations, while intimating the passage of time that has since elapsed. As a consequence, the exhibition begs the question: to what extent did the delay in historicisation result in material harm to the corpus of 5th Passage?
Singular Screens, Singapore International Festival of Arts 2021
A Love Unknown
Singular Screens, Singapore International Festival of Arts 2021
First screening: Friday, May 21, 2021
Time: 8pm
Second screening: Saturday, May 29, 2021
Time: 2pm
Venue: Oldham Theatre
Address: 1 Canning Rise, Singapore 179868
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Curated by the Asian Film Archive (AFA) for the Singapore International Festival of Arts 2020 (SIFA), Singular Screens celebrates diverse, independent and singular visions from Singapore and around the world. Discover a bold palette of cinematic adventures, featuring the ingenious and risk-taking in film.
DECK x Artists Limited Edition Totebags
Buy a Totebag and Help Build a Space
In collaboration with 15 local and international Artists to support DECK Building Fund is a series of totebags of 15 selected works.
With the vision for a permanent building for photography arts and the community, the DECK building contributes to the development of our future visual voices. The arrival of an alternative arts space signals the coming of age in Singapore embracing diversities in the arts ecosystem.
The preorder of these beautiful totebags will commence from now till 31 March 2021, your purchase will contribute 100% to the ongoing Building Fund - every contribution counts! We thank you from the bottom of our hearts. Pick your choice of artist totebag while stocks last. Limited edition of 30 per artist.
https://deck.sg/product/deck-x-artists-limited-edition-totebags/
Participating Artists: Aik Beng Chia, Ang Song Nian, Angki Purbandono, Chow and Lin, Feng Li, Hu Qiren, John Clang, Lavender Chang, Liana Yang, Manit Sriwanichpoom, Miti Ruangkritya, Robert Zhao, Sherman Ong, Theseus Chan, Yukari Chikura
FAMILY AFFAIRS. FAMILY IN CURRENT PHOTOGRAPHY
FAMILY AFFAIRS. FAMILY IN CURRENT PHOTOGRAPHY, a group exhibition curated by Ingo Taubhorn
Exhibition Date: April 2 – July 11, 2021 postponed due to Covid-19, new date: April 20 - July 4, 2021 *opens May 18 and extended through July 18, 2021
Venue: House of Photography, Deichtorhallen Hamburg
Artists: Nancy Borowick, Katharina Bosse, Elinor Carucci, John Clang, Daniel W. Coburn, Neil DaCosta, Siân Davey, Jaimie Diamond, Vincent Ferrané, Gustavo Germano, Eric Gyamfi, Lucia Herrero, Lebohang Kganye, Grégoire Korganow, Katharina Meyer, Dario Mitidieri, Lee-Ann Olwage, Trent Parke, Linn Schröder, Daniel Schumann, and Akihito Yoshida.
Exhibition preview here
Support Objectifs: 20 for 2020
Objectifs is a non-profit arts space dedicated to photography and film. Covid-19 has deeply affected their operation and they’ve just launched their first ever fundraiser. Please support generously. Donate and get a print gift! 🎁
Participating Artists: Darren Soh, John Clang, Robert Zhao Renhui, Kirsten Tan, Lenne Chai, Bryan van der Beek, ila, Ng Hui Hsien, nor, Shubigi Rao, Mindy Tan, Boo Junfeng, Amrita Chandradas, Lui Hock Seng, Lim Kwong Ling, Wee Li Lin, Deanna Ng, Kevin WY Lee, Ivan Tan and Dylan Chan
More info here: www.objectifs.com.sg/support-objectifs2020/