In a world where originality in horror films has long since died, The Vault is perhaps one of the most fun films of late to mash it up with the heist film to create a truly unique love child that’s both weird and provides enough scares to make this one strange B-movie to catch in cinemas. Two sisters and their brother rob a bank to … Continue reading Review: The Vault dir. Dan Bush
Earlier this year during the annual M1 Fringe Festival, Singaporean artist Ming Poon was thrust into the spotlight when his work Undressing Room was removed from the lineup due to the sensitive nature of the work. Undressing Room felt like the perfect fit for this year’s theme of Art and Skin. After all, one would literally bare all during the work itself, undressing the artist from top to toe and … Continue reading Naked and Unafraid: Stripping Down Ming Poon’s Controversial Undressing Room
What would filmmaker Tan Pin Pin put in a time capsule? The answer is simple; all you have to do is watch her new film In Time To Come.The latest documentary from the director of Singapore GaGa (2005), Invisible City (2007) and the controversial To Singapore, With Love (2013), In Time To Come continues to chart Tan’s ongoing fascination with memory, documenting the undocumented and national identity, this time zooming in … Continue reading Review: In Time To Come dir. Tan Pin Pin
This September, get ready for a truly unique theatrical experience with Hot Pot Talk: Theatre and the Arts. Conceptualized by Chong Gua Kee, and facilitated by arts practitioners Chang Ting Wei, Adib Kosnan and Shaiful Risan, Hot Pot Talk takes the form of interactive theatre and seeks to bridge the gap between arts practitioners and everyday, non-theatre going folk. In Hot Pot Talk, worlds will collide as artists meet … Continue reading Preview: Hot Pot Talk – Theatre and the Arts
South African choreographer Robyn Orlin is known in her home country as ‘a permanent irritation’. The incredibly inventive Johannesburg-born artist has constantly pushed boundaries and bent genres in her multimedia dance work, often favourably compared to the idea of ‘photo collages’, or colourful visual masterpieces that carefully and certainly uniquely address some of the most difficult and complex issues that surround her country’s history and … Continue reading SIFA 2017: And So You See… Our Honourable Blue Sky And Ever Enduring Sun… Can Only Be Consumed Slice By Slice… By Robyn Orlin (Review)
Whether you were lucky enough to be a part of the film itself at the O.P.E.N. earlier this year or are just hearing about it now, come down for the Red Carpet premiere of esteemed local director K. Rajagopal’s (A Yellow Bird) latest short film! Lizard on The Wall is hot off the editing suite, having been freshly shot and fully edited into a complete short … Continue reading SIFA 2017: Lizard on the Wall by K. Rajagopal – SIFA Closing Film (Red Carpet Gala)
The Singapore Fighting Championship returns with its 6th instalment this September at the all new, refurbished Juggernaut Fight Club at 10 Seng Poh Road! Marking the second championship in 2017, SFC 6 will feature three title championship belts up for grabs for the winners, including Singapore’s first-time duo title belts. In a return to form, this edition of the SFC will feature the most number of … Continue reading Preview: SFC 6 – Rise of Legends
After the marvel that was Sandaime Richard in last year’s edition of SIFA, Ong Keng Sen rounds off his stint as Festival Director with one final hurrah in the form of Trojan Women, a contemporary Asian musical combining K-pop and the Korean traditional genre of musical storytelling – pansori. Taking Seoul by storm at the end of 2016, Trojan Women at SIFA will mark the work’s premiere outside of Korea, and … Continue reading SIFA 2017: Trojan Women by Ong Keng Sen and the National Theater of Korea (Preview)
“There must be poetry in what is horrible.” This September, the Intercultural Theatre Institute presents the Singapore premiere of Mexican playwright David Gaitán’s Leakage(s) and Anticoagulants in the graduating batch’s second show of 2017. Itself an adaptation of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s classic novel Crime and Punishment, the darkly comic Leakage(s) and Anticoagulants takes audiences down a dark journey into the mind of a murderer. Raskolnikov has just killed an old woman, … Continue reading Preview: Leakage(s) and Anticoagulants by ITI
Glasgow-based Singaporean physical theatre master Ramesh Meyyappan makes a hotly anticipated return to the local theatre scene this October with his latest work: Off Kilter. Off Kilter follows Joe Kilter, hiding away in his own happy routine and preferring anonymity over fame. But as a change knocks his routine completely off track (and his house sideways), Joe Kilter’s life becomes, quite frankly, off kilter. As he closes … Continue reading Preview: Off Kilter by Theatreworks (+Interview with Ramesh Meyyappan!)
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