Finally, I'm stealing a few minutes to post something. It was a busy 2006 for me, and I've been doing projects non-stop. Right now, I'm editing Pleasure Factory, my first feature with Ekachai, and at the same time creating my last installation for the year "Signs, Omens and Relics of Faith" which will open next Wed at 72-13 in Mohd Sultan (yes, I'm moving on until I'm rich enough to create something that I need not compromise on). I'm collaborating with Miss Izzy (Isabella aka Sarong Party Girl blogger, who I met on the Pleasure Factory film shoot) on that...she's an amazing girl who is not only a talented animator, but also intelligent and reminds me very much of Nahsie Pooh when I first met her in NYP Yishun Campus a thousand years ago.
I also just came back from Hong Kong with Joe and my family. We went there to celebrate Xmas and New Year with my sis and Karnan, my bro-in-law, who now live and work there. HK is beautiful, and I'm very tempted to re-locate there if I can. I was so bloody inspired the whole time, the city pulses with so much life and energy. Now I know how Nicholas, my missing hamster, felt every time he raved about the Pearl of the Orient. HK...I MISS YOU!
I am also working on another feature film called the Lucky 7 project initiated by Sun Koh, and I haven't started planning for that. I've been studying Fassbinder and Ozon through the DVDs I bought in HK... I'm so tempted to copy them cuz they are such geniuses. All I need now are actors who can give emotional truth to any ridiculous situation I throw at them.
Anyway, I need to go off again to create my publicity flyers for my exhibition at 72-13. Here are some videos I just uploaded to youtube. Enjoy! I will write a more detailed entry the next time!
Waking the Fluorescent Lion (Latest work at the National Museum of S'pore. WARNING: 7 min Long and Silent and meant to be seen in the gallery space)
The Ephemeral Body
A Psychoanalytical Neo-Feminist Film
Sublime Monsters and Virtual Children
Imelda Goes to Singapore
Virgo (collaboration with Ng Yi-Sheng)
kami/kaze: a correspondence (collaboration with Ng Yi-Sheng)