FILM CLUB RECAP: THE SHADES OF LOVE
The second Objectifs Film Club session of 2021, presented in collaboration with Freedomfilmfest Singapore, featured Singaporean filmmaker Jessica Lee discussing her short documentary The Shades of Love, on the loves, lives …
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OBJECTIFS FILM CLUB: Shireen Seno and Yosep Anggi Noen
Objectifs Film Club: Shireen Seno and Yosep Anggi Noen Held in conjunction with the Objectifs Short Film Incubator 2021 Sat 3 Jul, 2pm – 3pm (SGT) This event will be …
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OBJECTIFS FILM CLUB: THE SHADES OF LOVE
Objectifs Film Club: The Shades of Love by Jessica Lee In collaboration with FreedomFilmFest Sg. Thu 29 Apr 2021, 7.30pm to 8.30pm (Singapore Time) This event will be held online, via Zoom. …
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FILM CLUB RECAP: THE DRAWING ROOM AND EPISODES FROM ART STUDIO
The first Objectifs Film Club session of 2021 featured Singaporean filmmaker Liao Jiekai in conversation with artist Yanyun Chen about their collaboration on The Drawing Room & Episodes from Art …
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Xin Ke – Singapore and Malaya’s First Feature Film
In 1926, an enterprising young man enthusiastically brought into Singapore the idea of showcasing the life of the people in British Malaya – by way of a movie. His name was Liu Beijin. The uncle of the eminent local artist Liu Kang, the former Muar resident set up an office in Chinatown and a film studio in Katong, hired his crew and cast members, and began production. The result was Xin Ke, a full-length silent film, released in 1927, about a young Chinese immigrant who seeks his fortunes in Malaya. Assisted by his wealthy Peranakan relatives, he eventually finds a job in Singapore – and a girl he loves. In this bilingual book, film researchers Jan Uhde, Yvonne Ng Uhde and Toh Hun Ping travel back in time to the beginning of film production in Singapore. Reproducing the original movie script in full, accompanied by finely drawn illustrations by Dan Wong, this book is a much-needed addition to our film industry’s collective memory.
About Yvonne Ng Uhde
Yvonne Ng Uhde is an independent film researcher. She has contributed numerous essays and opinion pieces to books and periodicals in Canada, the United States, Europe, and Singapore. She is the co-author of Latent Images: Film in Singapore.
About Jan Uhde
Jan Uhde is Professor Emeritus (Film Studies) at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. He founded a Bachelor’s programme in Film Studies at the Department of Fine Arts, where he taught for over four decades. He wrote Vision and Persistence: Twenty Years of the Ontario Film Institute and co-wrote Latent Images: Film in Singapore.
About Toh Hun PIng
Toh Hun PIng is a visual artist, filmmaker and film researcher. He has developed video works and short films involving various forms of image manipulation. His works have been screened at international experimental film festivals. He also runs the Singapore Film Locations Archive, a video collection of films made in Singapore.
About Lucien Low
Lucien Low is a bilingual translation editor with postgraduate qualifications in both publishing and English/Chinese translation. He recently edited the Chinese translation in The Little Red Dot and co-edited Great Lengths: Singapore’s Swimming Pools.
About Jocelyn Lau
Jocelyn Lau is an editor with postgraduate qualifications in publishing. She draws on 20 years’ experience in managing and editing a broad range of genres, including academic texts, coffee table books, travel guides, fiction titles and magazines. She edited Latent Images: Film in Singapore (Oxford University Press) in 2000.
About Dan Wong
Dan Wong is a commercial illustrator and digital artist. His personal art is centred heavily on social, political and cultural affairs. He heads the art collective A Good Citizen. Together with fellow illustrators Brenna Tan, Kimberly Teo, Su Qin and Melinda Chong, Wong produced the drawings in this book.
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OBJECTIFS SHORT FILM INCUBATOR 2021: SHORT FILM FORUM
The Objectifs Short Film Incubator is an initiative presented by Objectifs that focuses on developing short film scripts. The programme is open to Southeast Asian filmmakers working with moving images, …
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Prints by Richard W J Koh – East Coast (2014), 40 cm x 27 cm
Helicopter aerial photo of East Coast.
Published in Over Singapore by Richard Koh.
About Richard Koh
Richard W J Koh is a Singaporean photographer who for most of his lifetime considers photography a mystical art where one harvests light which comes from Above. Formerly an R&D engineer in a tech MNC, since switching career in 2003 to professional photography, he has received several awards from global photography competitions, exhibited internationally, some representing Singapore and photographed for a range of clients from government to private sectors.
Taking photography literally to new heights, Richard photographed the ends of Singapore from the air by helicopter, for the book Over Singapore (launched in 2015, by Editions Didier Millet). In one of the most extensive aerial photography projects in Singapore, shots were taken from as high as 10000 feet above sea level, from both military and civilian helicopters. Rare aerial photos of surreal and unusual scenes of the extremities of Singapore are presented. Quaint illusionary faces can also be seen in the myriad of industrial and urban development interlaced with gardens and naturescapes. The blend of old and new in the city core, outlying islands with coral reefs and even the Red Lions in action, are also all seen from a new perspective.
OBJECTIFS FILM CLUB: THE DRAWING ROOM & EPISODES FROM ART STUDIO
Objectifs Film Club: The Drawing Room & Episodes from Art Studio by Liao Jiekai Thu 25 Feb 2021, 8pm to 9pm (Singapore Time) This event will be held online, via Zoom. …
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When Cooking was a Crime – Masak in the Singapore Prisons, 1970s–80s by Sheere Ng and Don Wong
Cooking supper was the favourite pastime of many inmates in Singapore’s prisons and Drug Rehabilitation Centres (DRCs) during the 1970s and 1980s. It was carried out illegally, inside their cells or dormitories, and carefully timed to avoid the warders’ scheduled patrols. Chamber pot and mugs were used as cooking pots, plastic bags and blankets turned into fuel. The inmates, mostly male and Chinese, called this elaborate operation “masak”, which means “to cook” in Malay.
When Cooking Was A Crime offers a rare glimpse into the flavours of prison life based on the memories of eight former inmates. It explores how food took on new meanings and tastes for those behind bars through interviews and texts by Sheere Ng and photographic recreations of 35 objects and dishes by Don Wong.
Press
The Straits Times: New book offers a glimpse of illegal prison cooking culture in the 70s and 80s
About Sheere Ng
Sheere Ng writes and researches about food and its intersections with identity and immigration. She is also part of the writing studio In Plain Words.
About Don Wong
Don Wong is a former photojournalist who surveys and photographs changes in the built environments. He approaches his subjects with an unsentimental eye, paying closer attention instead, to their form, details and presence.
About In Practice Theory
Practice Theory is a design studio based in Singapore. We designed brand identities, campaigns, publications, digital and environmental spaces for clients who value the communicative and discursive power of design.
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RECAP: How to Get Your Short Film Seen by Greta Fornari
The inaugural Objectifs Short Film Incubator presented by Objectifs in partnership with Momo Film Co took place online in Sept 2020 and comprised a month-long mentorship for five projects from …
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