“Face Your Demons” brings us into the emotional mindscape of recently fired Sampath. With mixed mediums and techniques, the film follows the twists and turns of his struggle to process this failure. This film encompasses our generation’s fears— surviving in the corporate world, defeating your inner critic, and healing the child inside you that never stopped crying.
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Sinister Worlds studies how an uneasy mental state manifests into a vivid and surreal environment. The state of uneasiness shares similar characteristics inspired by overwhelming environments like amusement parks.
While such environments brim with wonder and thrill, they are also built on manufactured and artificial technology, and this reality starts to crumble once we start to pry its hidden mechanics. Just like feelings of uneasiness, it manipulates us into perceiving hidden threats, leading to constant cycles of anxious habits and vivid imagination.
Hence, this project explores the medium of illustration and symbolism to design a fictitious world manifested from the uneasy mind. Through a surreal illustrated interactive web platform, it aims to provoke a sense of wonder and introspection, yet also establish an unsettling atmosphere using the paradox of dark subject matter in a utopia setting. Sinister World represents the hidden alternate ego of human nature, revealing where fears and uneasiness are usually obscured, and aims to be a space of comfort for visitors to understand and relate their uneasiness, and reminds that no one is alone in an uncertain world.
Singapore is known to be a fast-paced and competitive society and rest is often associated with unproductivity. To challenge this norm, this project presents a paradoxical idea – to view ‘rest’ as an activity that boosts productivity. It aims to encourage working adults to take their minds off work and enjoy the sweetness of ‘doing nothing’, no matter how brief that moment may be.
Located at The Promontory@Marina Bay, the space is designed to be easily accessible to working adults. Taking inspiration from water ripples, people will be reminded of the ripple effect of rest – a short rest can go a long way. Rest helps clear our minds so that we will not be overwhelmed by life’s stresses. Serving as spaces of refuge, one can be alone to recharge and take on life’s bigger challenges.
Letting Go is a 2D animated short film about a teen struggling to get on with his life in school as reminders of the past trigger memories of his late sister. At the peak of his struggles, he managed to face his sister’s death and seeks help from his friend.
Parents very often want the best for their children. However, these good intentions may not necessarily translate well into how they raise their children. What these parents deem to be well-intentioned may actually be harmful to the development of the child, be it in terms of their mental health or interactions. In more extreme cases, this behaviour may be termed as toxic parenting. In such a case, the implications on the child may even last well into adulthood. This project, titled ‘Excess Baggage’, intends to investigate why and how toxic parenting behaviours are executed, and to analyse the impact it has on children and society at large.
Having experienced toxic parenting, this project also seeks to document the author’s personal journey of confrontation, self-reflection, revision, and recovery through significant milestones and events in her life. In so doing, the author hopes to bring the viewer along in her journey as she comes to terms with the impact of toxic parenting in her life, and as she begins to heal from her experiences.