1. Trinh. T. Minh-ha. Films.
What The NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore has something for everyone this month. As part of the centre's ongoing exhibition Trinh. T. Minh-ha. Films., January's line-up kicks off with an online screening of Nervous Translation by filmmaker Shireen Seno. The 90-minute film traces the life of an eight-year-old girl, where audiences get to witness first hand the perception of the child through various day-to-day sounds, during the time of the People Power Revolution in the Philippines.
The screening is followed by a reading and artist conversation with novelist and filmmaker Xiaolu Guo. The event, titled Exhibition (de)Tour: The Life of Memory: Xiaolu Guo on her writing and filmmaking, sees Guo reading an excerpt from her memoir Nine Continents: A Memoir In and Out of China, included in Trinh T. Minh-ha's newest work,What About China?
Lastly, Trinh T. Minh-ha's film Reassemblage will be screened as part of the festival. It explores how documentary and ethnographic tradition can manipulate the ways of which audiences perceive different cultures, and hence, their active role in watching a film.
When January 6 to 19 | January 12 | January 20 to 31