A Guide for Green Little Beings: How to See Plants embarks on an exploration of the Singaporean relationship with nature through the perspective of a fictional space programme, SPARC. As SPARC documents its discoveries of alien exploration on Earth, it uncovers intriguing insights by the aliens into the various aspects of humanity’s eroding relationship and behaviours towards terrestrial nature.
Through the narrative of SPARC’s discoveries, it offers a commentary on the urgent need to reconstruct our bond with nature, urging for a redefinition, relearning, and appreciation of our natural world.
When young working mother Amelia is notified that her 3 month old son is underweight, she has to decide what’s best for her son while battling her own insecurities of motherhood.
Book of Reminiscence is a historical role-playing game about a scholar helping the ghosts of his ancestors to rest. It is a 3rd person PC game about self-discovery and reminiscing about the past.
Set during the Song Dynasty, Song Shu, a scholar, finds himself inheriting his family’s bookstore, which was passed down from his late parents, and a magical engraved stone. After entering the bookstore, he discovers the presence of ghosts – ghosts of his ancestors. A long lost childhood friend, a once-close relative, a mysterious stranger… Song Shu seeks to fulfil the wishes of his ancestors together with the stone’s power.
Film Synopsis:
Arul (15), is forced into becoming a runner. Ah Song (60), comes home from his son’s funeral to find out that his house is being harassed by loan sharks. Amidst the predicament of unsettled debts and unfulfilled relationships, the stories of two different individuals meet at the ramshackle corridors of Geylang.
Entrapped in the world of relentless debtors and runners, Arul is forced into a situation to help Ah Song unravel the truth. As they embark on their journey, both characters begin to understand the depth of each other’s situation and accept their differences to work together to finish what they started. WRITINGS ON THE WALL is a crime thriller-drama that takes place over the course of one night. The film explores themes such as money, race and fatherhood to show how two broken characters from different walks of life meet and find kinship with each other.
Singapore is well-known around the world for its multi-racialism which consists of a few main races such as Indians, Chinese and Malay. It is known that the Chinese race can be broken down into further groups such as Hokkien, Cantonese, Teochew, and Hakka. Though this knowledge is common in Singapore, not many know that the Malay race can be broken down to different groups too, like the Chinese. Majority of the Malay race consists of Singaporeans whose ancestry comes from Indonesia such as the Javanese, Boyanese, Bugis and Minangkabaus.
This project aims to tell a narrative of a family of Javanese heritage living in modern Singapore through the medium of Batik. Its designs are filled with different motifs and colour to represent the stories that were shared during the interviews with the chosen individuals from 4 different generations. A zine book will also assist in describing the information of the Batik and the video interview will aid with the understanding of the stories shared.
