Screening
The Arts House
1, Old Parliament Lane
March 11, 2006 to April 16, 2006
$8, $6 (Students)

To be seen to be heard and to belong. Through musical interludes and verite vignettes, we heard buskers, street vendors and cheerleaders sing hymns to themselves and to their communities and a sense of what it means to bea modern Singaporean emerges.

Singapore GaGa is a 55-minute paean to the quirkiness of the Singaporean aural landscape. It reveals Singapore's past and present with a delight and humour that makes it a necessary film for all Singaporeans. We hear buskers, street vendors, school cheerleaders sing hymns to themselves and to their communities. From these vocabularies (including Arabic, Latin, Hainanese), a sense of what it might mean to be a modern Singaporean emerges. This is Singapore's first documentary to have a cinema release. With English and Chinese subtitles.

For more information, visit www.singaporegaga.com.

Singapore GaGa is represented by Objectifs Films. To bring Singapore GaGa to your school for a screening and talk, or to enquire about the film, please email info@objectifs.com.sg or call +65 6339 3068.

About Tan Pin Pin

Singaporean Tan Pin Pin's works have won multiple awards, amongst them a Student Academy Award for Moving House and an Asian TV Award for television series Afterlife. Her shorts Rogers Park, microwave, lurve me now and 80kmh have screened in festivals and museums worldwide.