SINdie: Class of 2008 – See Who’s There!

I propose to you a different way to look back at the Singapore films of 2008. Our memories of films may fade faster than we like to but unforgettable characters tend to stay with us in our minds. Instead of dishing out the stories all over again, I prefer to take a second look at the characters from the Singapore-made films that were hard to erase. And what a bunch of boys, women, uncles, ah mas and cross-dressers we’ve got on our plate, oops, my plate, to be exact.

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Additional Screenings for Diminishing Memories

The Arts House has added 10 screenings to their initial six screenings for the film Diminishing Memories I & II after receiving overwhelming response from it’s debut public screening at The Art House.

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SIFF Review: Diminishing Memories II

Remember how Chinatown has been kneaded through years of `reinvention’ to its present state of a mildly bustling gathering point for various people. It sure lacks the spontaneity of yesteryears but it is very slowly taking on a new identity. If they keep working at it, it could grow to become gloriously busy… in another 50 years.

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Updated SIFF Screening Schedule

The 21st Singapore International Film Festival kicks off in two week’s time on 4 April 2008 with The Princess of Nebraska (directed by Wayne Wang, co-starring Singaporean female actress Pamelyn Chee) at Lido, 9.15pm and continues on for the next ten days.

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SIFF Singapore Panorama at Sinema Old School

The 21st Singapore International Film Festival kicks off in about a month’s time on 4 April 2008 with The Princess of Nebraska (directed by Wayne Wang, co-starring Singaporean female actor Pamelyn Chee) at Lido, 9.15pm and continues on for the next ten days.

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Diminishing Memories & Singapore Standard Time @ Sinema at Timbré

Sinema presents its second bimonthly screening of Singapore films at Timbré at the Substation. The doublebill features two documentaries that received good responses at Cine.SG in October:

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Truth, objectivity and the Singapore way

At the Q & A session at last week’s Cine.SG screening of Diminishing Memories and Singapore Standard Time, a member of the audience got up and praised Eng Yee Peng, the director of the former film, for having made a film was “very objective and shows all sides of the story.”

I suppose this was referring to the fact that Yee Peng had interviewed not only her own parents, who were still clearly disgruntled with the government decision to evict them from their kampung home twenty years ago, but also former neighbours and acquaintances, some of whom held a completely opposing view.

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Diminishing Memories

Directed by Eng Yee Peng
Running time: 50 minutes

In a nutshell
This is filmmaker Eng Yee Peng’s personal story of growing up and moving away from the village of Lim Chu Kang, as told through interviews with family members, former neighbours and a former Member of Parliament, and narrated by Yee Peng herself.

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Diminishing Memories/SST

Cine.SG’s ongoing screenings of Singapore films features a doublebill tonight: Diminishing Memories by Eng Yee Peng and Singapore Standard Time by Joycelyn Khoo and Serene Ng. In a way, they seem to be polar opposites: the first seems to promise a trip down the kampung memory lane, while the second is about “how speed has taken root in Singaporean culture”. It should be an interesting ride.