Friday, 25 June 2010

Eating Air @ China Square Central
1999| Singapore | English, Mandarin, Hokkien
Color 100 min | Comedy, Romance
Directors: Kelvin Tong, Jasmine Ng
Cast: Benjamin Heng, Alvina Toh, Michelle Chong, Mark Lee

A romance between opposites, Eating Air follows the lives of two teenagers during one of the hottest months in Singapore. For Boy breaking into bridal shops under moonlight is as wildly exicting as taking Girl on her first motrocycle spin. For Girl, hurtling down the the highway faster than the speed of sound is as intoxicatingly frightening as wondering where Boy rushes off to everytime he receives a page. Eating Air is about the joys and pangs of teenage love…

Time: 7:30pm

Venue: China Square Central, Fountain Square, 18 Cross Street Singapore 048423

Admission: FREE! – This is a rain or shine event. Screenings will be shifted indoors if we encounter bad weather.

source: Singapore Film Festival

Mon Oncle / My Uncle
Dir: Jacques Tati
1958 | France | 110 min | 35mm | PG

Jacques Tati, one of cinema’s greatest comedians, reprises his role as the lovable and accident-prone Mr Hulot in the film Mon Oncle, a follow-up to the hugely popular Mr. Hulot’s Holiday. Mon Oncle proves to be equally successful, becoming a big international hit and winner of the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 1958.

In Mon Oncle, Mr Hulot grapples with the absurdities of modern living with hilarious results when he visits his brother-in-law who lives in a futuristic house full of mechanised gadgets. Filled with inventive and delightful sight gags, the nearly dialogue-free film is a comic masterpiece, and at the same time, a sly dig at American-style consumerism and our obsession with modern efficiency.

A joy to watch from beginning to end, the highlight of Mon Oncle is Tati’s playful and distinctive brand of visual humour, which has been a huge influence on the style of comedians from Monty Python to Peter Sellers and Rowan Atkinson.

Time: 2000H

Venue: Stamford Garden, Open-air screening

Admission: FREE!

source: National Museum

A Cage Goes In Search Of A Bird

A coffee stain on your table top. The wretched howling of a ambulance siren passes your window. Inside the ambulance, the last moments of an unknown unknowable soul shares the consciousness of this last deafening sound with you. Can these disparate things connect and possibly find meaning?

Drawing inspiration from plays such as No Exit and Waiting For Godot: an attempt to claim the things we cannot have, and an attempt to recover the things we used to have and have lost. A Cage Goes In Search of A Bird navigates people’s quiet struggle with belonging and the meaning/ lessness of life.

Time: 2000H

Venue: LASALLE Flexible Performance Space

Tickets: S$25 – BUY

source: GateCrash