Toronto: Eric Khoo’s “˜In the Room’ Draws From Personal Experience1 min read
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSingapore’s best-known auteur returns to the festival circuit with erotic drama “In the Room,” premiering in Toronto.
The film is a peep through the keyhole of a once-grand hotel that has fallen on hard times, and is constructed as eight scenes, each telling the stories of the sexual escapades over seven decades in in the same room.
As well as being a concept that was firmed up while Eric Khoo was jury president at the Bucheon fantasy fest when he stayed in a seedy hotel, the director says the film plays tribute to Damien Sin, a larger-than-life Singaporean artist who died in 2006. Khoo got to know him through shared interests in comic books, horror stories and rock music. Sin features in the film as a recurring character.
“Damien wrote the screenplay for “˜Mee Pok Man,’ my first feature movie. And without him, who knows where I would be today,” Khoo says.
“Room” went to the soundstages of Mike Wiluan’s Infinite Frameworks where production designer Arthur Chua built two identical hotel rooms. That structure enabled Khoo to shoot an episode in one suite, while Chua readied the other room for shooting of the next segment. That system, and a lot of planning, enabled the film to be lensed in just 10 days and the budget to be kept under $1 million.
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