SINGULAR SCREENS Curated by Asian Film Archive 14 — 30 May Various Timings Oldham Theatre, National Archives of Singapore Tickets at $15 Bundle of 4: $50 FILM
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Curated by the Asian Film Archive (AFA) for the Singapore International Festival of Arts 2021 (SIFA), Singular Screens celebrates diverse, independent and singular visions from Singapore and around the world. Discover a bold palette of cinematic adventures, featuring the ingenious and risk-taking in film. Screenings will be held at Oldham Theatre, with selected films also available on Video on Demand (VOD). Ratings for all films to be advised.
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LIGHT OF A BURNING MOTH / 蛾の光
N.P.
A dancer stops speaking to be a “voice” for silent people. Meeting an old artist, she faces her trauma of her mother’s disappearance.
Lisa Spilliaert’s feature debut is a silent film translation of the Banana Yoshimoto’s novel into a cinematic scenario.
THE MOLE AGENT / EL AGENTE TOPO
LOVE POEM / 情诗
When a family becomes concerned about their mother’s well-being in a retirement home, private investigator Romulo hires Sergio, an 83-year-old man who becomes a mole.
What feels like an ordinary weekend outing a young couple gets into a heated argument, exposing many secrets. But have they told each other everything?
BLOODY NOSE, EMPTY POCKETS
THE HUMAN VOICE & LUX ÆTERNA
A mosaic of disparate lives, teetering between dignity and debauchery, reckoning with the past as they face an uncertain future.
In The Human Voice, a woman watches time passing by and goes though all sorts of moods over three days; in Lux Æterna, a shoot gets thrown into a chaos of pure light.
