Singular Screens

Curated by Asian Film Archive

14 — 30 May Various Timings Oldham Theatre, National Archives of Singapore

Tickets at $15 Bundle of 4: $50

FILM

Curated by the Asian Film Archive (AFA) for the Singapore International Festival of Arts 2021 (SIFA), Singular Screens celebrates diverse, independent and singular visions from Singapore and around the world. Discover a bold palette of cinematic adventures, featuring the ingenious and risk-taking in film. Screenings will be held at Oldham Theatre, with selected films also available on Video on Demand (VOD).

Ratings for all films to be advised.

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LIGHT OF A BURNING MOTH / 蛾の光

A dancer stops speaking to be a “voice” for silent people. Meeting an old artist, she faces her trauma of her mother’s disappearance.

N.P.

Lisa Spilliaert’s feature debut is a silent film translation of the Banana Yoshimoto’s novel into a cinematic scenario.

THE MOLE AGENT / EL AGENTE TOPO

When a family becomes concerned about their mother’s well-being in a retirement home, private investigator Romulo hires Sergio, an 83-year-old man who becomes a mole. LOVE POEM / 情诗

What feels like an ordinary weekend outing a young couple gets into a heated argument, exposing many secrets. But have they told each other everything?

BLOODY NOSE, EMPTY POCKETS

A mosaic of disparate lives, teetering between dignity and debauchery, reckoning with the past as they face an uncertain future.

THE HUMAN VOICE & LUX ÆTERNA

In The Human Voice, a woman watches time passing by and goes though all sorts of moods over three days; in Lux Æterna, a shoot gets thrown into a chaos of pure light.

OUVERTURES

Ouvertures brings the Haitian revolutionary Toussaint Louverture back to life.

A LOVE UNKNOWN

A woman in New York and her abandoned daughter in Singapore pursue a change in their lives. Over four days, their inner demons unravel an interconnectedness between mother and child.

THERE ARE NO FALSE UNDERTAKINGS / IL N’Y A PAS DE FAUX MÉTIER

THE YEAR OF THE DISCOVERY / EL AÑO DEL DESCUBRIMIENTO IF IT WERE LOVE / SI C’ÉTAIT DE L’AMOUR

Theatre, burlesque, detective, sitcom, cineme: Oliver Godin’s new film is a playful and delirious tale with unexpected twists.

GUNDA

Experiential cinema in its purest form, GUNDA chronicles the unfiltered lives of a mother pig, a flock of chickens, and a herd of cows with masterful intimacy.

As the day goes on in a bar in Cartagena, the riots from the industrial crisis of 1992 are heard more and more closely. Fifteen young dancers are on tour with Crowd, Gisèle Vienne’s epic dance piece. From theatre to theatre, the work mutates into strange, intimate relationships.

SÁTÁNTANGÓ

Based on the book by László Krasznahorkai, Sátántangó follows members of a small, defunct agricultural collective living in a post-apocalyptic landscape after the fall of Communism.

LANDSCAPES OF RESISTANCE

Landscapes of Resistance traces a journey through the memories of antifascist fighter Sonja, one of the first female partisans in Yugoslavia.