Post-Screening Discussion
23 April 2010, Friday
7pm – 9pm
Singapore Art Museum, Gallery 3.10
Free, for registration email Masitah at masitah_ismail@nhb.gov.sg.

Held in conjunction with the exhibition, Visions: Realism in Asia is a showcase of short films that exhort the lyricism of everyday life in Southeast Asia, providing humorous and thought-provoking insights. Join us for a post-screening discussion with the film programmer and art curator of Realism in Asian Art.

Bangkok in the Evening กรุงเทพฯตอนเย็นๆ
(Krung Thep Ton Yen Yen)
16:00/Thailand/2005
Direction: Sompot Chidgasornpongse

Bangkok, the city where everything moves and changes fast, where all activities happen concurrently and continuously, there's still a time, in the evening, when people and everything seem to stop, when the forward motion comes to a pause and everyone seems to leave the world behind. This film can be seen as a requiem or a love serenade for the director’s beloved Bangkok.

Imelda goes to Singapore
2:30/Singapore/2006
Direction: Brian Gothong Tan

A comic reverie that features the likeness of former First Lady Imelda Marcos as a household maid in Singapore performing her favourite song Dahil sa iyo. This satire on the musical genre is also a darkly political allegory of the Marcos regime.

Rhythm of a Day
9:00/Indonesia/2008
Direction: Steve Pillar Setiabudi

The variety of food offered in Jakarta’s alleys doesn’t come on silent wheels. A strange sound composition based on a hard day’s work. It is dedicated to the people who bring the true sound to the capital.

Utama – Every Name in History is I
23:00/Singapore/2003
Direction: Ho Tzu Nyen

In the indigenous Malay tongue, 'Singa' means lion, while 'pore' is derived from the word 'pura', or city. In official accounts of its history, Singapore was founded in 1819 by Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles as part of the British colonial empire. Little is known about the precolonial founder Sang Nila Utama, this “first” king of the Malays, who gave Singapore its name after encountering a lion along its shores.

Bongseng
5:00/Indonesia/2006
Direction: Patrick, Armando, Andri, Yuwono, Triyono

Bars, walls, distances don’t really exist for us. Behind the bars, we communicate in silence, secretly.

Two Planet Series
17:00/Thailand/2008
Direction: Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook

Moving from Chiang Mai city to its suburbs, the director found herself surrounded by two things:- art, which is forever; and the lives of others, naturally born, pained, and easily ended.