3 Cents A Kilo
Singapore | Documentary | English, Mandarin, Cantonese | 2020 | 23 min 41 sec
3 Cents A Kilo documents the day-to-day lives of three cardboard collectors. It takes us through their routines and ruminations, showing us how they meet unremitting hardship with grit, humour, and back-breaking hard work.
Featuring John Gomez, Yi Mei, Kan Weng Yip
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44th Asian American International Film Festival
Jakarta Independent Film Festival 2021
Press Asian American International Film Festival 2021: Short Film Picks in Narrative & Documentary
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One After Another
Singapore | Experimental | No dialogue | 2021 | 5 min 33 sec
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Painting with Light: Special Focus
One After Another is a reading of the works in the exhibition Goh Beng Kwan: Nervous City. The film draws from paintings in Goh’s Urban Renewal series: Minaret (1973), In The Clouds There Are Dwellings (1985) and Advertisements (1962–1966). Director Chew Chia Shao Min interprets the nervousness referenced in the exhibition title as a state of longing and anxiety. She uses images of waiting, simmering and engulfment to convey the tension that arises from suppressing charged emotions. In the film, the city becomes a fever dream of discontent as the protagonist and viewer alike are trapped in transitory states—always coming or going, but never arriving.
Chew Chia amplifies the frenetic pace of the urban environment by contrasting images of the city with depictions of stillness in nature. The juxtaposition of these images also highlights the difference between natural shifts such as the onset of decay and changes in weather, and man-made ones experienced in the city. Atmospheric, sensorial and intuitive, One After Another’s exploration of the spiritual overtones infused in textures around us suggests that it is in accepting our insignificance that we can transcend the changes in our environments.
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Figments
New York | Experimental | English | 2019 | 7 min 51 sec
Haunted by her husband’s infidelity, Andy wounds herself searching for the capacity to forgive.
Featuring Rachel Brun, Ronald Emile, and Grace Porter
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Nightmares Film Festival 2020
Melbourne Film Festival 2021, Finalist
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May and June
Singapore | Narrative | English | 2018 | 13 min 41 sec
In the lead up to fencing nationals, 16 year old May is burdened by complex feelings for her coach. She struggles to reciprocate her teammate June’s bids for friendship.
Featuring Wong Ye Han, Lauren Lai, and Pierre Png
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Singapore International Film Festival 2018
San Francisco International Festival of Short Films 2019
Oslo Independent Film Festival 2019
Maverick Movie Awards Winner and Nominee 2019
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Bright Blue Sky
New York | Narrative | No Dialogue | 2016 | 4 min
A woman in distress discovers the gift of failure.
Featuring Hana Chamoun
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Select Screenings Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente de La Plata Festi-Freak