Singapore Memories
Posted on Feb 23, 2010 under Culture, Entertainment, Films, Travel, dining | No CommentSingapore is a barrage of sensations, where sounds, colors, and smells are constantly coming at you, offering you new ways to turn your attention outward, and find new ways to chase your thoughts. It’s a splendid city to get lost in, if you have the time, and one of the wonderful things about vacations is that funny thing they do to time. You can enjoy all the sights that the guidebooks recommend, see the local shows, enjoy a Chinese restaurant, and find yourself distracted by the show of everyday life that’s going on in the streets.
There are plenty of entertainments in town, and all art forms, too. With theatre, performance art, experimental music, installation art, and more, there are always lots of things to choose from. There are also local filmmakers, too, and the indie scene is not necessarily at a level to compete with the big movie making cities, but with filmmakers like Eng Wee Pen, it is certainly alive.
She has two documentaries, Diminishing Memories 1 & 2, and they’ve both been earning her a lot of attention, and her reputation is growing as a young artist to watch. Both of these films are about her family from her perspective, the first one constructed of her own memories as a nine-year old, and the second from her point of view today as a 20-something. This is a very honest family portrait, framed in a way to make you constantly aware of the framing. This is a rather brilliant touch, so that while we’re watching her memories, we think about how we construct our own.
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