Undercurrent
Undercurrent explores the boldest corners of cinematic art, celebrating the restive spirit of contemporary artist-filmmakers.
Featuring eleven moving-image works and screen-based performances, this dynamic selection charts new waters across multidisciplinary forms. By subverting conventional narrative structures, these works invite audiences to stretch their imagination and redefine what the filmic medium can achieve.
Live Performance
Corporeal Forms: Four Stories
A puppeteer’s hand resurrects the missing and lost bodies of history through four stories in this lecture performance.
Chen Wan-Yin, Hsu Che-Yu / Germany, Taiwan / 2026 / 45 min / Rating To Be Advised / Asian Premiere
The Compression Zone
A video game descends into a pixel dungeon where demons demand a sacrifice for your data.
Shaheer Tarar / United Kingdom / 2026 / 45 min / Rating To Be Advised / Asian Premiere
Imagination + The Rest Is My Ghost
Film grain, spectral beams and low-frequency murmurs: two artists converse in light and sound, channelling the sublime.
Takashi Makino, Lawrence English / Japan, Australia / 2026 / 75 min / G / Southeast Asian Premiere
Feature Films
Hanabi
Hanabi depicts the people, flora and fauna, and natural and urban landscapes affected by the invisible dangers of radioactivity. Intricate imagery, sound design, narration and text form a polyphonic narrative about the relationship between civilisation, change and catastrophe.
Ana Vaz / France, Brazil / 2026 / 107 min / NC16 (Some Coarse Language) / Asian Premiere
On Memories of Countless Days Away
Two friends recall their childhoods in Singapore, revisit their earlier films and perform a dance for which no recording remains. Their musings and archives are woven together in a meditation on how memories are not recovered, but composed anew.
Elysa Wendi, Liao Jiekai / Singapore, Japan, Hong Kong / 2026 / 102 min / PG / World Premiere
Double Bill
23 Oct, Fri 9:00PM / 77 min / PG13 / Oldham Theatre
You Dreamt You Saw Yourself But Couldn’t See Your Face
Fluid reflections in water and the haunting sound of wind become metaphors for loss, mourning and the passage of time in this personal work featuring three generations of a family.
Shireen Seno / Philippines, United States / 2026 / 7 min / PG / Singapore Premiere
September Afternoon
As summertime ends, a couple, their young child and an acquaintance visit the beach, but are beset by strong winds and a slowly encroaching calamity. This strange film uses colour, mise-en-scène and sound design to suggest another way of experiencing the emptiness and dread of time.
Nicolaas Schmidt / Germany / 2026 / 70 min / PG13 (Some Mature Content) / Asian Premiere
Triple Bill
1 Nov, Sun 1:30PM / 84 min / R21 / Oldham Theatre
In Sum
Glitchy fragments shot by an obsolete digital camera overlay archival films about rural development in Thailand during the Cold War, presenting competing perspectives about national stability and regional security.
Komtouch Napattaloong / Thailand / 2026 / 17 min / PG13 (Some Mature Content) / Singapore Premiere
Fruits of Despair
While making a documentary about the Israel-Palestine conflict, an Iranian filmmaker finds himself in a warzone when Israel and the US attack Iran in early 2026. This hybrid film connects displacement, loss and mortality that span decades across borders.
Nima Nassaj / Iran / 2026 / 29 min / R21 (Mature Content) / Asian Premiere
Compact Disc
A filmmaker meets with his friends who were imprisoned after the 2019–20 protests in Hong Kong to talk about their fragmented memories from those years. The audiovisual materials and devices they examine suggest the challenges of finding truth and resolution through documentation.
Rico Wong / Hong Kong, UK / 2026 / 38 min / NC16 (Mature Content and Coarse Language) / Southeast Asian Premiere