NOMINATED FOR MAGNOLIA AWARD
May 18, 2009
at the Shanghai Television Festival June 12 2009. I will be making my first trip to China in 18 years for the screening!
Their blurb “After Invisible city’s is released to the public in Singapore, it is regarded as a film that every Singaporeans should see, because “Singaporeans have gradually lost the real and indigenous collective memory, being replaced by the memory of a global world.” It is not only a picture of urban characteristics, but also a mix of diverse nations and rich life deposits. The direct guides the audience to the ordinary people’s life in Singapore through the exquisite decoration of modernization by means of talk and follow shots. Tan Pin Pin’s InvisibleCity shows the almost forgotten past of Singapore: the gradually lost memories of the elders, the old film which is going to be wiped out and those self-reflections under the political power. It intellectually includes different historical scenes, letting the history cross between easiness and seriousness. It has some new inspiration to the historical narration in Asia.”
Taiwan Festival Award
February 23, 2009
Having previously won the Prix Internationale de la SCAM at Cinema du Reel, we are pleased to inform you that we won Asian Vision Award Merit Prize at the Taiwan International Documentary Festival in Nov 2008
The Citation
“以知性的影像讓不同的歷史場景進行對望，讓歷史記憶得以穿梭於輕鬆與嚴肅之間，本片對亞洲整體的歷史敘事來說，有著新的啟示與激發。”
“Facilitated dialogues among different historical locales through intellectually rich images, enabling memories to travel between lightness and gravity. This film brings new inspiration and stimulation to the telling of Asian histories as a whole.”
More Invisible City screenings
February 23, 2009
Toronto Singapore Film Festival, 4 April 2009 (Saturday) in Innis Town Hall , 2 Sussex Avenue , Toronto
>> Singapore, Media Fiesta, 7pm 20 March, Cineleisure, (Director present for Q&A)
Mexico City, Ambulante, 12 February (Director present for Q&A)
Cinemanila October, 18 Oct 2008 (Director present for Q&A)
DVD on sale now
August 24, 2008
The Invisible City DVD is on sale as part of a 3-DVD box set of Tan Pin Pin’s films. In Singapore you can buy it now at Kinokuniya, HMV, Books Actually, Objectifs, National Museum shop. Its US$36. If you are overseas, buy it here
Distributed by Objectifs Films. DVD extras include audio commentary with Tan Pin Pin and script consultant Tan Siok Siok,
(possibly a first for a Singapore film to provide that) a filmlet made with
Ivan Polunin’s sound archives, and the trailer. The DVD liner notes are
by Alfian Sa’at. More info about the box set is available here
Design by Mindwasabi/Martin Ong
SCREENINGS
August 24, 2008
Smithsonian Museum, Freer & Sackler Gallery Washington DC, USA 14 Sep
Taiwan International Documentary Festival 1-9 Nov
Perth, Singapore Western Australian Network National Day Screening 10 Aug
Rome Asian Film Festival 28 July
Women’s Film festival of Brussels 18-21 Sep
Humanities Conference, National Institute of Education, Singapore 18 Nov
Invisible City & Singapore GaGa at Sinema
July 5, 2008
Invisible City and Singapore GaGa are screening back to back at Sinema Old School next week onwards. Its part of a documentary festival featuring Boomtown Beijing and Feet Unbound. Just buy a ticket!
I will be at the Q&A on 10 July for both films
Ticket Hotline 6336-9707. Here are the times. Thurs and Sats only. Short run only
Invisible City Jul 10, 12, 17 & 26
Thu & Sat: 9.15pm – 10.15pm
Jul 19
Sat: 3pm – 4pm
Singapore GaGa
Jul 10, 12, 17 & 26
Thu & Sat: 8pm – 9pm
ISEAS Screening
March 25, 2008
From ISEAS’ programme notes for the screening
“As its name implies, this documentary is about a Singapore that remains invisible, pointing to national consciousness as a fragmented reality with critical bits ignored or demonised. Turning a sharp eye on the subject of memory, the film takes its audience to meet some engaging people struggling to leave a mark before they and their histories disappear: an aging film maker fighting valiantly against time and fading memory to catalogue his treasure trove of rare old footage of the island; an aggrieved student activist from the 1950s wanting to set the record straight for history; etc. In turn poignant, indignant and thought-provoking, the film invites debate about how the past can be remembered and history written, objectively, without fear or favour.”Invisible City is the second film funded by the ISEAS
A Q&A with the film-maker will follow the screening chaired by ISEAS Fellow Dr Hui Yew-Foong.
Date: Wednesday, 26 March 2008
Time: 3.00 pm to 5.00 pm
Venue: ISEAS Seminar Room II
email: betty@iseas.edu.sg or call Betty at Tel: 6870-2472/6778-0955.
Caption: “Hey who gives you the right to take our picture?’
INVISIBLE CITY WINS
March 17, 2008
le Prix international de la Scam at the Cinema du Reel
A witty, intellectually challenging essay on history and memory as tools of civil resistance
Scam?? société civile des auteurs multimédia, en dehors de son rôle de gestion, a pour mission de défendre la création audiovisuelle ex aequo
Berlinale 2008
January 17, 2008
08.02.08 17:45 CinemaxX5 (press screening)
09.02.08 20:00 Arsenal (sold out)
10.02.08 15:00 Cubix 7 (sold out)
11.02.08 15:00 CineStar 8 (sold out)
taz.de review in German
Director Tan Pin Pin and Script Consultant Tan Siok Siok will be attending the European premiere of Invisible City at the Berlinale Forum
Forum Blog entry here
Press: Contact Tan Pin Pin directly at tanpinpin at gmail.com if you need more information
“… there’s no memory without purpose: it is capital, duty, compensation, it is usually self-serving and always biased. ” – Berlinale programme notes
JIFFEST’s Jakarta’s four screenings went successfully. Upcoming festivals include Berlinale (Feb, Forum) Punto de Vista (Spain, Feb, In competition) and Cinema du Reel (France, April, In Competition). The Punto email reminded me that it was one of 24 selected out of 804 entries. So Thank you, Happy New Year.
