Undercurrent - SGIFF 2022

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Undercurrent

Charting exciting directions and bold expressions in cinema today, affirming imaginative treatments of the moving image. With five double bills and three single features, audiences are encouraged to take a deep dive and revel in the wide range of filmic approaches.

Featured Films

Coma

Phantasms and screens—enter the burrows of a teenager’s psyche in this bracingly original hybrid film by French auteur Bertrand Bonello.

Bertrand BONELLO France 80 mins M18 (Sexual Scene) Southeast Asian Premiere

The Plains

The repetitive nature of a middle-aged man’s daily commute home proves to be quietly revelatory.

David EASTEAL Australia 180 mins PG Southeast Asian Premiere

De Humani Corporis Fabrica

An immersive, visceral journey through the structures and pathologies of human and medical bodies in the 21st century.

Véréna PARAVEL and Lucien CASTAING-TAYLOR France, USA, Switzerland 115 mins R21 (Mature Content) Southeast Asian Premiere

Double Bill

02 Dec 2022, Fri, 7:00 PM / Filmgarde Kallang, Hall 3 / 78 mins / PG13 (Some Mature Content)

All The Things You Leave Behind

A layered take on how society and politics in present-day Thailand are haunted by Cold War politics and American military activity in mainland Southeast Asia.

Chanasorn CHAIKITIPORN Thailand 18 mins PG13 (Some Mature Content) Singapore Premiere

The Unburied Sounds of a Troubled Horizon

A scrapyard owner, whose family and community are still dealing with the legacy of the Vietnam War, comes across an unexpected chance at healing and rebirth.

Tuan Andrew NGUYEN Vietnam, USA 60 mins PG13 (Some Mature Content) Asian Premiere

Double Bill

25 Nov 2022, Fri, 9:30 PM / Filmgarde Kallang, Hall 2 / 110 mins / PG13
(Some Coarse Language)

Unidentified

A hilarious, moving and whimsical speculative fiction about our yearning for belonging and connection in a world that looks increasingly less like home.

Jude CHUN South Korea 80 mins PG13 (Some Coarse Language) Asian Premiere

Eventide

This single-shot landscape film experiments with the rich sonic and visual resources of the night to evoke both wonder and mourning.

Sharon LOCKHART Sweden 30 mins G Asian Premiere

Double Bill

03 Dec 2022, Sat, 3:30 PM / Oldham Theatre / 69 mins / PG

In the Future, They Ate from the Finest Porcelain

A resistance group buries porcelain to support future claims to their vanishing lands in this futuristic take on archaeology as historical intervention.

Larissa SANSOUR, Søren LIND Palestine, United Kingdom, Denmark, Qatar 29 mins PG Southeast Asian Premiere

Quarries

Photographic transparencies and documentary footage tell overlooked stories of labour, from prehistoric tools to Portuguese stonemasonry.

Ellie GA Portugal, Sweden, France 40 mins PG Asian Premiere

Double Bill

26 Nov 2022, Sat, 1:30 PM / Filmgarde Kallang, Hall 2 / 111 mins / PG13 (Some Violence)

Nazarbazi

A playful collage of images, words, sounds and texts that deconstructs female desire in post-revolution Iranian cinema.

Maryam TAFAKORY Iran, UK 19 mins PG13 (Some Disturbing Scenes) Southeast Asian Premiere

The Myriad of Faces of the Future Challengers

An essayistic film exploring the legacies of cinema in New Order Indonesia and what it means to be inheritors of its filmic language.

I Gde SUARDIATMIKA, Yuki ADITYA Indonesia 92 mins PG13 (Some Violence) Singapore Premiere

Double Bill

27 Nov 2022, Sun, 6:30 PM / Carnival / 109 mins / TBA

Life on the CAPS

Teleporting migrants and US troopers are segregated on the CAPS, an island of metamorphosing bodies and virtual realities.

Meriem BENNANI Morocco, USA 34 mins PG13 (Some Coarse Language) Singapore Premiere

MOBY DICK; or, The Whale

An adaptation of Moby Dick as a silent film and theatre piece with a postcolonial and queer reading that highlights its marginal characters.

Wu TSANG Switzerland, USA 75 mins M18 (Nudity) Asian Premiere