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This online film screening is presented as part of the Worlding Through Cinema film programme. For more information about the film programme, please head to: museum.nus.edu.sg/worldingthroughcinema
About the films
Lost World (2018) | PG | Dir. Kalyanee Mam
As Singapore dredges sand out from beneath Cambodia’s mangrove forests, an ecosystem, a communal way of life, and one woman’s relationship to her beloved home are faced with the threat of erasure.
Notes From the Periphery (2021) | PG | Dir. Tulapop Saenjaroen
Shot in the peripheral areas of Laem Chabang port this film interrogates the notion of territoriality, globalised networks, and ownership through fragmented relations of the affected sites and communities nearby, shipping containers that become a policing tool, and barnacles.
Lemongrass Girl (2021) | PG | Dir. Pom Bunsermvicha
An ancient, yet still-common Thai superstition is the basis for this subtle reflection on power relations and sexism. Fiction and making-of are joined virtually seamlessly: Thai filmset as an allegory for society.
About the series
Worlding Through Cinema
10 – 23 September 2022
Triangulating three exhibition projects Yang tidak lupa, Intimate Landscapes, and a third one at the NUS Baba House, Worlding Through Cinema is a film programme focusing on subjectivities that encounter worlds both immediate and imaginative. The series of feature and short films, conversations, and other discursive elements are intimations of lived experiences and worlds aspired for in a precarious time of ecological disaster, human rights crises, contested bodies and identities, forgotten rituals and heritage, and overlooked labour.
Through the porous boundaries between ‘self’ and ‘other’, ethical and political questions on how we treat the ‘other’ further emerge within this world-building. How do we examine kinship, care and labour within these stories of worlding? What knowledges can we glean when we encounter different spaces? What does a privileging of the non-human show us? Where do bodies belong to? In a time of great environmental change, how is this lived and felt in this place we call home?