What happens when you ask a group of filmmakers to imagine what life would be like in the future, ten years later? If they’re from Hong Kong, you’d probably end up with Ten Years, a collection of five dystopic short films set in 2025. We’ll be doing a short writeup on each short film below. Check it out: Extras dir. Zune Kwok We begin our journey … Continue reading London Film Festival 2016: Ten Years
Teachers beware: This show will probably trigger all kinds of PTSD relating to your worklife. Directed by Christopher Fok and written by Marcia Vanderstraaten, Micromanage. Overwork. Exasperate. (conveniently shortened to MOE) takes the form of a teaching seminar facilitated by Lian Sutton, where you the audience will be subject to learning about the ups and downs of being a member of the Ministry of Education. Vignesh Singh, … Continue reading Review: Micromanage. Overwork. Exasperate. by Dark Matter Theatrics [1/10/16]
Siblings can be the light or bane of your life. But imagine being attached to yours, literally. Italian film Indivisible features a pair of twins conjoined at the hip – the spunky Daisy and more reserved Viola. The twins live in a small beach town and spend their days as singers, revered as symbols of hope and religious significance by the folks. They’re joined by their dysfunctional family, … Continue reading London Film Festival 2016: Indivisible dir. Edoardo De Angelis
Studio Ghibli of Totoro fame presents their first ever film collaboration, and boy is it a sight to behold. The Red Turtle, or La Tort Rouge, contains absolutely no dialogue, yet manages to dazzle and impress with its gorgeous animation over the course of its 80 minute run. London-based Dutch director Michael Dudok de Wit begins the film with with a bang, placing the unnamed protagonist struggling for … Continue reading London Film Festival 2016: The Red Turtle dir. Michael Dudok de Wit
Mimosas is a strange piece of cinema, disorienting in both its presentation of the sprawling, awe-inspiring landscape and the various settings it introduces us to. Perhaps this is appropriate, given that French-Spanish director Oliver Laxe based it on his travels with actor Saïd Aagli in the Atlas mountains. The film is split into three parts, titled after different elements in Islam prayer, although the distinction and … Continue reading London Film Festival 2016: Mimosas dir. Oliver Laxe
Micromanage. Overwork. Exasperate. (conveniently abbreviated as MOE) is the latest production from Dark Matter Theatrics, comprising playwright-director Christopher Fok, actor Lian Sutton and playwright Marcia Ven Der Straaten (who co-wrote Life! Theatre award winning play Hotel with Alfian Sa’at). MOE touches on the hot topic of education, which everyone loves commenting on and feel they can do better. Using text and information obtained from interviews with teachers from … Continue reading Preview: Micromanage. Overwork. Exasperate. By Dark Matter Theatrics
“You’re not always the most approachable person.” “Maybe you’re just not approaching me in the right way.” We’re going to spoiler you right from the start: things do not end well for Christine. But you’d already have guessed that if you knew the film was based on the true case of a newswoman who in the 70s, who committed suicide live on television. What purpose … Continue reading London Film Festival 2016: Christine dir. Antonio Campos
How do you get a hold of some of the best upcoming new films (and potential Oscar fodder)? You attend the London Film Festival of course. The annual London Film Festival returns this October with a slew of all new feature films, some of which will be receiving their world premiere. Highlights include festival opening and closing galas Amma Asante’s A United Kingdom and Ben Wheatley’s Free Fire, … Continue reading Preview: BFI London Film Festival 2016
“Five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred minutes/how do you measure a year in the life?” Pangdemonium ends off their 2016 season of love with none other than the musical origin of its theme – Jonathan Larson’s 1996 musical Rent! Last staged in Singapore by the Singapore Repertory Theatre back in 2001, Rent gives Puccini’s opera La Boheme an update to its setting, surrounding a … Continue reading Preview: RENT by Pangdemonium
The creative team behind the show. From left: Albert Tay, Darrell Ang, Glen Goei and Chong Tze Chien. Wagner’s classic opera The Flying Dutchman will be getting its very first full staging here in Singapore this October! And if that wasn’t exciting enough, it will also receive a creative twist, in that it will move away from its classic Nordic setting to that of an Asian fishing … Continue reading Preview: The Flying Dutchman by The Wagner Association
