2006

The film is about Karolina, an 18-year old girl with advanced osteoporosis. She had responded to an appeal by the artist for someone willing to share her pain. Her devastated skeletal system means that each movement causes unbearable pain as flesh presses on and rubs against fragments of bone. Karolina decided to go on morphine, taking ever larger doses...

Mysterious Object at noon is part fiction, part documentary, and part pseudo documentary about several unrelated lives in Thailand. The film emphasizes a documentary approach that presents people with different professions rather than looking for a perfect and unbroken narrative of the fiction's storyline. After the journey, the crew set back for Bangkok, where the collaborated story is shot in a fiction-drama style with non-professional actors.

Indonesia has been disturbed in the last few years by terrorist attacks of Muslim fundamentalists. The confusion in the country is an inspiration source for many Indonesian artists. In Promised Paradise we follow the troubadour-puppeteer Agus who criticizes the turbulence in his country in his performances.

Rumidjah, a 62-year-old widow, lives in Jakarta/Indonesia with her son Bakti and her 11-year-old granddaughter Tari. Since the fall of dictator Suharto seven years ago, she has witnessed the country passing through a tumultuous period of socio-political chaos. Director Leonard Retel Helmrich again visits Indonesia through three generations of the Sjamsuddin family. In this way the film continually connects small issues with large ones.

Singapore GaGa is an essay film, a 55-minute paean to the quirkiness of the Singaporean aural landscape. It zooms in on our aural gems and reveals hidden faces of our past and present with a delight and humour makes it a necessary film for all Singaporeans. “GaGa” means being crazy over something in English, anger in Malay and a yearning for a time past.