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Tan Pin Pin's film To Singapore, With Love not to be shown in public

CloneHunter

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Tan Pin Pin...born 1969... i think Victoria Junior College Humanities student. Great intellect. Committed. Had a mind of her own and doesnt believe in PAP bullshit. Well done.
 

THE_CHANSTER

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Such is the power of the Internet these days, once it gets posted on Youtube and into the public domain, banning it will make no difference.
 

yellowarse

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Tan Pin Pin's filmography:

Films[edit]

To Singapore, With Love (2014)[edit]

In 2013, Tan released To Singapore, With Love, which revolves around political exiles, some of whom have not been home for as long as 50 years. The documentary won Tan the best director award in the Muhr AsiaAfrica Documentary section at 10th Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF). It was made with the support of the Asian Cinema Fund and the Busan International Film Festival, where it had its world premiere in competition.[SUP][3][/SUP] The film was banned in Singapore, with the Media Development Authority claiming that it undermined national security.[SUP][4][/SUP]

Snow City (2011)[edit]


In 2011, Tan released Snow City. Snow City had its international premiere at the Singapore Biennale[SUP][5][/SUP] and was invited to screen in competition atCinéma du Réel.[SUP][6][/SUP][SUP][7][/SUP]

The Impossibility of Knowing (2010)[edit]



Still from The Impossibility of Knowing

The Impossibility of Knowing documents Tan's attempt to capture the aura of spaces in Singapore that have experienced trauma. Tan was among four Asian directors who were commissioned by the DMZ Korean International Documentary Film Festival[SUP][8][/SUP] to make a short film on the theme of "peace, life, and communication". The Impossibility of Knowing premiered on 11 September 2010.
The film also screened at Visions du Réel[SUP][9][/SUP] and the Oberhausen International Short Film Festival[SUP][10][/SUP]

Invisible City (2007)[edit]



Ivan Polunin in Invisible City

The 2007 documentary Invisible City, chronicles the ways people attempt to leave a mark before they and their histories disappear. Tan interviews people – photographers, journalists and archaeologists – who are propelled by curiosity to find a City for themselves.
The film enjoyed a five-week sold out run at The Arts House in Singapore and screened at Berlinale, Pusan.[SUP][11][/SUP]Invisible City also won the Prix de la Scam at Cinéma du Réel, and the Asian Vision Award, Merit Award, at the Taiwan International Documentary Festival.

Singapore GaGa (2005)[edit]


Singapore GaGa, a survey of Singaporean life as expressed in sounds, is Tan's best-known film yet. The film is Singapore's first documentary to have a cinema release and it enjoyed a seven-week sold out run at The Arts House. Apart from being acquired for screening on board Singapore Airlines, it has also played in film festivals around the world.[SUP][12][/SUP][SUP][13][/SUP] Singapore GaGa was voted Best Film in 2006 by The Straits Times.

Crossings: John Woo (2004)[edit]


In 2004, Tan released Crossings: John Woo, a film showing the history and life of one of Hollywood’s most celebrated directors John Woo. The film showcased rarely seen clips from Woo's earlier works. Crossings: John Woo premiered on Discovery.

80km/h (2003)[edit]


80km/h is a single continuous take of the 38-minute long drive across the island of Singapore on the Pan Island Expressway, and the view along the way.

Gravedigger's Luck (part of Afterlife Series) (2003)[edit]


Tan released Gravedigger's Luck, part of Discovery Network's Afterlife series. It documents a man who tries multiple luck-enhancing methods to counter the curse of bad luck he believes he has because of his job as a grave exhumer. Gravedigger's Luck was the runner up for Best Documentary at the Asian TV Awards, and the runner up for Best Infotainment Programme. She was the series consultant for the Afterlife series.

Building Dreams (2002)[edit]


The 8-part series on the history of Singapore architecture Building Dreams featured two episodes Tan directed – Dawn of a New Era and Spaces of Memory. The pieces showed a rare look inside the dome of the Old Supreme Court Building, Singapore, as well as a house designed by renowned Singaporean architect Ho Kwong Yew. Building Dreams was produced for Arts Central by Xtreme Productions.

Moving House (2001)[edit]



Still from Moving House

Moving House gives an insight into what it is like for one of the 55,000 families in Singapore forced to relocate the remains of their relatives from a cemetery to a columbarium. The film was one of six documentary ideas commissioned by Discovery Networks Asia and is the first documentary it funded that was entirely conceptualised, initiated and directed by a Singaporean.
Moving House won the Student Academy Award for Best Documentary,[SUP][14][/SUP] Best Documentary at the USA-Asean Film Festival,[SUP][15][/SUP] an award for Discovery Channel's Asia First Time Filmmaker Award, a Certificate of Merit at the Chicago International Film Festival, and the Documentary Prize at Nextframe.

Rogers Park (2001)[edit]


The 2001 short Rogers Park gives audiences a snapshot of the lives of three people – a man, a woman, and a boy. They live under one roof and yet in emotionally separate spaces in Chicago's Rogers Park.
Rogers Park was a Student Academy Awards Regional Finalist, won the Golden Reel Award and the Chicago Filmmaker Award. It also screened at the Clermont Film Festival in France.[SUP][16][/SUP]

microwave (2000)[edit]


Tan's microwave takes a humorous jab at the world's obsession with everybody's favourite plastic doll. The film was done in a single shot and has screened in multiple festivals around the world.[SUP][17][/SUP][SUP][18][/SUP][SUP][19][/SUP]

Moving House (1997)[edit]


Moving House (1997) was about the exhumation of Tan's great-grandparents' grave in 1995. The site was off Sixth Avenue in Singapore. This was the first of three documentaries about grave exhumations.
 

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i feel that pap is trying to protect and dignify their own, they want sinkies to think that pap is the best under old fart and forever remain this way. this show is like a documentary, i think too much dirt on pap and the leeder. and they want us to believe that the portrayers in the film are communists, made to believed. pap is hindering the last words of those who fought them, now the next generation can't see or decide for themselves whether if old fart did wrong... the motive is clear, pro-pap...!

Ouch ! Ouch ! Why censored ?:confused:
 

xingguy

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Source: To Singapore, with Love 星国恋 Facebook Page

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Here are some views from Singaporeans and programmers who have seen it at overseas festivals

“Expertly crafted, enormously moving” - Film Society, Lincoln Center

“The only Singaporean film that truly deserves to be called a “must see”. A brave, intelligent, sensitive, heartbreaking and humbling work that left my head spinning” - Colin Goh

“All of Tan Pin Pin’s previous work has been moving towards this courageous point.” –Tony Rayns, Head, Jury, Dubai International Film Festival

“This moved me to tears. Every young Singaporean of my generation should see this, in fact all Singaporeans should see this. It’s a slice of our history that shouldn’t be forgotten, and hopefully properly acknowledged in the near future.” – Anthony Chen

“The most important Singaporean film I have ever seen.” - Woo Yen Yen

"Vital" - Jeremy Tiang

“Tender and searching, deserves to be watched by the largest Singaporean audience possible, and more than once.” – Chan Cheow-Thia

“”To Singapore, With Love” is a necessary film. That it is very well made is a bonus. Extremely moving and thought-provoking.” - Koh Jee Leong

“Stylistically concise, with so much heart.” – Kirsten Tan

“A moving, heartbreaking work on unrequited love for one’s country” - Traslin Ong

“A very delicate and intimate gaze into the lives of Singaporean political exiles and their families.” – Paolo Bertolin, Venice International Film Festival delegate

“If you feel touched, it may be because of the production’s impressive ability to weave sentiment from small details, food, poetry, songs, and photos.” - Cine21 (Korean cinema magazine)


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For those who are keen, you can still view it in JB :biggrin:

Freedom Film Festival 2014 presents "To Singapore, with Love" in Johor Baru! Not too far from the Woodlands Causeway.
Director Pin Pin in attendance
70min, 2013
With English and Malay subtitles
Tickets: RM10, Free Seating
To reserve: email organiser [email protected]
Full schedule for Friday 19 Sept
http://freedomfilmfest.komas.org/schedule-3/?yr=2014
Official film website
www.tosingaporewithlove.com

Synopsis
Scattered about the globe, in London, Thailand, and neighboring Malaysia, the subjects of this expertly crafted, enormously moving documentary are Singaporean political exiles who fled their country decades ago to escape detention or worse for their beliefs and activism. Most will never be permitted to return in their lifetime, but all have created an extraordinary second life for themselves in an adopted homeland. The latest from leading Singaporean documentarian Tan Pin Pin (Singapore GaGa, Invisible City) doubles as a tender group portrait of these brave individuals, and of Singapore itself, as seen from afar by its harshest critics and most utopian defenders.- Lincoln Center
 

laksaboy

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i feel that pap is trying to protect and dignify their own, they want sinkies to think that pap is the best under old fart and forever remain this way. this show is like a documentary, i think too much dirt on pap and the leeder. and they want us to believe that the portrayers in the film are communists, made to believed. pap is hindering the last words of those who fought them, now the next generation can't see or decide for themselves whether if old fart did wrong... the motive is clear, pro-pap...!

The PAP regime only loves Jack Neo's crappy films, they're used as to distract the sheeple with crass slapstick.

Occasionally films such as Ilo Ilo get a mention because they very subtly promulgate the pro-FT stance.
 

xingguy

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Source: To Singapore, with Love 星国恋

STATEMENT BY TAN PIN PIN
Director and Producer of “To Singapore, with Love”

To Singapore with Love (2013) was slated to screen with my other films Invisible City (2007) and Singapore GaGa (2005) at the end of September 2014, in a triple-bill presented by National University of Singapore (NUS) Museum, an institution that I have had a long working relationship with in relation to my previous films.

Now the screenings will not take place.

I am very disappointed by the MDA decision to ban it -- for myself, and also what it means for Singapore. Like many of my other films, To Singapore, with Love took shape organically. I was making a video about Singapore’s coastline from afar. In the process of researching the idea of being outside, I stumbled upon Escape from the Lion’s Paw (2012), a book of first-person accounts by Singapore political exiles, people who remain outside the country, but not by choice. I decided to interview one of them in Malaysia. I was so moved by her account that I decided to change focus and To Singapore, with Love was born. Like my other films mentioned above, this film is a portrait of Singapore; unlike the others, this film is shot entirely outside the country, in the belief that we can learn something about ourselves by adopting, both literally and figuratively, an external view.

For this film, I traveled to England, Malaysia and Thailand to interview the exiles to find out how they have lived their lives away from Singapore. Some have not been back for more than 50 years. They talk about why they left, but they mostly talk about their lives today and their relationship with Singapore. They show us the new lives they have created for themselves. One shows us around his noodle-making factory, we visit the law firm of another and play with the children of yet another exile. We also attend the funeral of one of them. Finally, we observe a family reunion that takes place in Johor Baru, the twinkling lights of Singapore a short distance away. The focus is on their everyday lives. These exiles all have different ideological positions and are of different ages; some are communists, others are activists from the Christian Left, yet others are socialist politicians or former student activists. But their feelings for Singapore is intense and heartfelt, albeit sometimes ambivalent, even after so long away. Those feelings (more than the circumstances of their exile, or even the historical "truth" that led to such exile) are what my film predominantly focuses on, because I feel that many viewers might relate to those feelings.

I made this film because I myself wanted to better understand Singapore. I wanted to understand how we became who we are by addressing what was banished and unspoken for. Perhaps what remains could be the essence of us today. I was also hoping that the film would open up a national conversation to allow us to understand ourselves as a nation better too.

I am therefore very disappointed that my film is banned. By doing this, MDA is taking away an opportunity for us Singaporeans see it and to have a conversation about it and our past that this film could have started or contributed to. It is vital for us to have that conversation on our own terms, especially on the eve of our 50th birthday. We need to be trusted to be able to find the answers about ourselves, for ourselves.

It is my deepest regret that we cannot have such a conversation here today. That conversation did start when some Singaporeans saw it at film festivals overseas. Some of the reactions include; “Tender and searching” “Extremely moving and thought-provoking” and “A Must see”. Now, the irony that a film about Singapore exiles is now exiled from Singapore as well - this is not something I ever wanted or hoped for.

I hope to be able to show it in Singapore one day, and may re-submit for a rating in the future.

Tan Pin Pin
10 September 2014
[email protected]

More information
Film’s official site
http://www.tosingaporewithlove.com/
Film’s Facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/tosingaporewithlove
Director’s filmography
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2566810/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
 

laksaboy

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The news called the movie a 'national security threat'... LOL.

Incidents such as this remind me why I absolutely hate the PAP.
 

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The news called the movie a 'national security threat'... LOL.

Incidents such as this remind me why I absolutely hate the PAP.

PAP need to look in the mirror and see the real 'national security threat'.

In selling out the country, we need to vote out this bunch of self-serving scums in white.
 

yellowarse

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Tan Pin Pin is a class act, one of our best film-makers. The sad thing is the really good films get banned if their social or political themes are not aligned with PAP's fairytale social narrative.

That's why our indigenous movie industry is in the doldrums. The nail that stands out has to be hammered in. That's why we have to be content with dumbed down, brain-dead productions by Jackass and his ilk.
 
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