Surname Viet Given Name Nam, Trinh T. Minh-ha, 1989 16mm film transferred to digital, colour, sound, 108 min Rating: PG13 (This film contains some disturbing scenes from the archival footage of the Vietnam War) This film is Trinh’s complex deep dive…
13 Jun 2015, Sat 4:00pm - 6:00pm Yee I-Lann and Ise are Artists-in-Residence who have a material based approach through the use of photography, drawing, printing and food in their work and use research methods of oral history and storytelling in…
23 Aug 2017, Wed 07:30 PM - 09:00 PM Chia-Wei Hsu’s ten-year long engagement with the moving image and the forgotten stories of the Cold War in Southeast Asia resulted in a complex body of works which address major historical events through the lens…
11 Aug 2017, Fri 07:30 PM - 09:00 PM Ulrike Ottinger’s work translates a powerful research into a portrait of the world in images. These investigations, in Ottinger’s case often referred as travelogues, result in films that take time to encounter. By…
In "Grandma's Story," the last chapter of Women, Native, Other (1989), Trinh T. Minh-ha writes that, "The story depends upon every one of us to come into being. It needs us all, needs our remembering, understanding, and creating what we have heard…
31 May 2017, Wed 07:30 PM - 09:00 PM Studio #01-06, Block 38 Malan Road In the context of Matthias Sohr’s Studio Session, pianist Christina CL Tan and collaborators perform “Quiet”, a song taken from Leonard Bernstein’s operetta Candide (1956), based…
In Trinh T. Minh-ha’s newest work What About China? (Part I of II, 2020–2021), Xiaolu Guo reads from her memoir Nine Continents: A Memoir In and Out of China (2017) as a voice-over. Reflecting on her childhood, her early career in the Beijing art…
Conference: "There is no such thing as documentary"Session 1: Speaking NearbyChaired by Dr Erika Balsom (Canada/United Kingdom), Reader, Film Studies, King’s College London (KCL) Speakers: Prof Chris Berry (United Kingdom), Professor, Film Studies,…
Session 2: Filmic Interferences Chaired by Dr Marc Glöde (Germany/Singapore), Assistant Professor, NTU School of Art, Design and Media (ADM)Speakers:Tan Pin Pin (Singapore), film directorNguyên Trinh Thi (Vietnam), artist and filmmakerRespondent:Dr…
Free Jazz III. Sound. Walks. Presented in collaboration with The Arts House’s Poetry with Music series, the 4th edition of Sollum Swaramum, brings together musicians Ramesh Krishnan, Mohamed Noor and Munir Alsagoff in exploration of the synergies…