Dive into the captivating world of dance film, where cinematography and movements intertwine to create a unique cinematic experience. Five dance films will be presented in this upcoming exhibition.
Location: *SCAPE Level 3, #03-02
Exhibition Dates: 11 January to 26 January 2025
Time: 1pm to 9pm
Admission Type: Free (registration not required)
Films presented:
Title: SOUTHWEST CORNER
Director: Zachary Yap
Producer: Andre Chong
On a windy day leading to Chinese New Year, a divorced mother-turned-feng shui master blends movement, songs, and rituals to help her hopeless 30-year-old son find a wife.
Title: Latex Labyrinth
Director: Wey Yinn Teo
Cinematographer: Jeff Yong Yan Hee
Dancer: Austin Goh
Behind the sleepy Broga Town, known for weekend hikes up Bukit Lalang, the famous “Boyfriend’s Coconut Milkshake,” and the 140-year-old Sak Dato temple, lies a forgotten past. Latex Labyrinth explores memory, labour, and resilience through the history of Malaysian rubber plantations and the Hakka diaspora. Intertwining ancestral routines with moments of defiance and transformation, the surreal imagery and archival elements blur the lines between past and present, reflecting the endurance and fragility of those who shaped this legacy. A lament for loss and a tribute to our ancestors who toiled, the film examines the invisible scars of labour, and invites viewers to reflect on inherited stories and the connections between identity, history, and the human spirit.
Title: Uneven Steps
Artist: Xue
Director: Toh Jia Jun
Cinematographer: Wei Zhong
Point Cloud Artist: Chi-Han Feng
Music/Sound Artist: Zachary
The Butoh body is on its way somewhere, traversing a pathway with uneven stones imbedded. Pains along the way debilitate the body. The body’s senses of its parts are heightened even as it gains rigidity. The body is one that struggles, convulses in order to connect with the environment. It is a process to catharsis. The body paints its body white as a means of dissolving the self, becoming nothing. It yearns to erase pain.
Feeling its pains, the body continues moving.
Title: KEMBOJA
Director: Ow Hong Xu
Producer, Line Producer: Ong Jun Wen Andrew
Creative Producer, Associate Producer: Nadhirah Shapudin
Cinematographer and Dancer: Sofea Khan
Unfurling like a frangipani flower, Kemboja weaves a surreal narrative in which the Self finds herself entangled in a delicate struggle with her own Shadow—a spectral force that has slipped free, untethered and alive. Cast adrift in a dreamscape of disembodiment, the Self is propelled toward an inevitable metamorphosis. As the boundaries between Shadow and Self blur and refocus, Kemboja asks- what does it mean to become whole?
Title: SING ME A SONG WHILE I SLEEP
Director: Zachary Yap
Producer: Aloysius Ong
Movement Artist: Michelle Ang
Inspired by the myth of Chang’e, a woman with a disability seeks immortality. Caught between the realm of stories and real life, she subverts the raw energy of krumping — a street dance born from resistance — into something transcendent, weaving it into a ritual of personal transformation.
