History and Its Currency Talk Series | The Pinterest Instinct by Tan Pin Pin
Date: 6 March 2014, Thursday
Time: 8.00pm - 10.00pm
Tan Pin Pin reveals her process that resulted in two
recent films Snow City (2011) and The Impossibility of Knowing (2010).
The first grew from her huge and random archive of Singapore scenes shot
for another film (that were never used) and the second, from her 10
year collection of Straits Times news clippings detailing crimes of passion. She hopes to show how the Pinterest Instinct can be used as a vital creative resource.
Tan Pin Pin is an award-winning director who is known for her body of work on Singapore and her histories. Her films have screened in Berlinale, Busan, Vision du Reel and the Flaherty Seminar. In Singapore, the films have received sold out theatrical screenings and toured schools. She has won awards from Cinema du Reel, Taiwan International Documentary Festival, as well as a Student Academy Award for Moving House. To Singapore with Love, about Singapore exiles, was awarded Best Director at the Dubai International Film Festival.
Tan Pin Pin is an award-winning director who is known for her body of work on Singapore and her histories. Her films have screened in Berlinale, Busan, Vision du Reel and the Flaherty Seminar. In Singapore, the films have received sold out theatrical screenings and toured schools. She has won awards from Cinema du Reel, Taiwan International Documentary Festival, as well as a Student Academy Award for Moving House. To Singapore with Love, about Singapore exiles, was awarded Best Director at the Dubai International Film Festival.
About History and Its Currency Talk Series
Every
glimpse of history is a merely freeze-frame in transit. History, in other
words, is constantly on the move, always caught in a state of perpetual
becoming. What would it mean for us to write history then? The flow of ink on
paper, the flickering of words on screen; both suggest the myriad ways in which
history moves us. But perhaps the inverse is just as valid: it is us who
continue to animate, perform and simulate history as such. Presented
as part of the Writing Lab 2014
programme, the talk series History and
its Currency: Archives, Anecdotes, Contemporary Practice will gather
together practitioners such as Paul Rae, Tan Pin Pin, Heman Chong, Lilian Chee
and Looi Wang Ping, whose projects often entail a thinking of history as
contested, imagined, and always open to a future still to come.
Writing Lab 2014 is a seven-week script-writing mentorship programme, running from 13 Feb-27 Mar 2014 facilitated by Huzir Sulaiman of Checkpoint Theatre, and organised by NUS Museum for the NUS Arts Festival 2014. Under Huzir's guidance, students will write short plays that draw from, refer to, or intersect with the collections of NUS Museum. The programme will consist of one mentoring session and one public talk per week, culminating in a public script reading session on 27 March 2014 during the NUS Arts Festival 2014.
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