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Film Review: Hell Bank Presents Running Ghost
To grow up watching Singaporean films entails growing up watching Mark Lee, and most will recognise Lee for his slapstick humour and jokes that wear its punchline on his sleeve. His name has been...
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Film Review: Last Days at Sea
The unfortunate thing about documentaries as a genre is that it gets a bad reputation amongst the general Netflix-watching populace (like me) for being either outdated (see: ancient people/things),...
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Short Film Review: Gunam-Gunam X Guni-Guni
Gunam-Gunam X Guni-Guni, directed by Khavn de la Cruz, is a Filipino film that follows the adventures of two children named Gunam and Guni. In a disorientating 10 minutes, the experimental film...
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A School Imagined: 'The Wandering' takes us on a wet ride
There is a lot a narrative film cannot achieve that a dance film can - a long hard gaze at physical space and dimension. The real star of The Wandering, a dance film co-directed by Yeo Siew Hua who...
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You and I, The Power of Humanity: An Interview with Fanny Chotimah
Recently awarded the Best Feature-length Documentary prize at the Festival Film Indonesia 2020, Fanny Chotimah's You and I also screened at the Singapore International Film Festival, was the closing...
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Film Review: People Power Bombshell: The Diary of Vietnam Rose
At first glance, People Power Bombshell: The Diary of Vietnam Roseseems to operate on a fairly straightforward premise: it is a documentary that covers the arduous filming process of an unfinished...
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Film Review: Dreamy Eyes (2019)
Dreamy Eyes (2019) or Mắt biếc, directed by Victor Wu, is a poetic portrayal of childhood, and a love that spans through decades. The film tells the story of Ngan and Ha Lan, childhood friends from a...
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Film Review: No Love For The Young // Tiada Cinta Selama Muda (2020)
For one and a half hours, a group of performance artists interpret words through dance, movement and a great deal of posturing in the film Tiada Cinta Selama Muda. The group of artists differ in their...
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ShoutOUT! Cannes Announces L'Atelier 2021 Lineup, Includes 2 Southeast Asian...
The Festival de Cannes has unveiled the lineup for this year's Cinefoundation Atelier, the co-production forum where in-development projects will try and secure funding at this year's Cannes festival,...
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Film Review: Faraway My Shadow Wandered (2020)
Faraway My Shadow Wandered is a hybrid documentary combining elements of dance and docu-fiction that coalesce to form an enigmatic exploration of one’s family history. The film follows Junya, who...
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Film Review: Fan Girl (2020)
In the post 2010s information age, the barrier between the personal lives of celebrities and their fans has become more transparent than ever. The pressure on celebrities from management, advertisers,...
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Film Review: IRUL: Ghost Hotel (2021)
[Contains Spoilers]The third film to come out of KUMAN Pictures’ first batch of feature films is none other than IRUL: Ghost Hotel by Prem Nath, a Tamil film about an abandoned haunted hotel in Penang....
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ShoutOUT! Singapore International Film Festival Appoints Thong Kay Wee as New...
Singapore - The Singapore International Film Festival (SGIFF) has appointed Singapore film programmer and moving image curator Thong Kay Wee as its new Programme Director. Taking over from incumbent...
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Film Review: Sementara
“Sementara” is Malay for temporary, or as the filmmakers, Joant Ubeda and Chew Chia Shao Min, more poetically put it, “transient”. Its title is reminiscent of Ron Fricke’s Baraka or Godfrey Reggio’s...
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Short Film Review: People on Sunday (2019)
Stylistic human poses in this short are very much in the style of "art films".Work and leisure have always shared an entangled relationship. Before the 20th century, the majority of working space and...
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ShoutOUT! Bangkok ASEAN Film Festival 2021 Calling for Entries!
Photo credit: BAFF FacebookThe 2021 Bangkok ASEAN Film Festival (BAFF), organised by Thailand’s Ministry of Culture, returns with the 7th Edition that will take place from 1 September 1 2021 to 6...
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Crossing Natural Boundaries: An Interview with Remi M Sali
Singapore filmmaker Remi M Sali wants to take audiences, especially those too used to the traditional pontianak movies, away from its familiar environment, into a more contemporary world with a...
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Short Film Review: Random People
Lacking a distinct narrative, Random People, a Filipino short film directed by Arden Rod Condez,is a curious work. It opens with the striking sound of wind and waves hitting the shore, and the image of...
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Short Film Review: Underground Cemetery (2020)
Suspense is often what is unknown, intensified. There is perhaps no golden rule for how much uncertainty builds suspense, but too much or too little and the feeling doesn’t hold. Wisarut...
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Short Film Review: Bangkok Department (2020)
In the midst of looming structures and dimly lit alleys, the film follows two individuals in their attempts at finding connections whilst struggling with feelings of alienation amidst the cold and...
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