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	<title>NOTES FROM SERANGOON ROAD</title>
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		<title>&#8220;Local&#8221;?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[= taken for granted?


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		<title>On Community</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am speaking in a conference organised by the British Council called Making Community, in a panel with Noor Effendy Ibrahim and Hong Lysa! More details here . In this clip, I speak about how film can create a community. Its shot by Victric Thng in the kitchen 
Part of Making Community takes place in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Evergreen students strike a pose</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Professor Julia Zay all the way from Evergreen College, Olympia, Washington USA screened Singapore GaGa alongside Jem Cohen&#8217;s Lost Book Found for her class Non/Fictional Cities, Countries, Worlds. She also screened Mysterious Object at Noon. She sent pictures of her students scribbling furiously after the screening, Here, they strike a pose. Thanks Julia

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		<title>Singapore Cinephile in Criticine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Written for Criticine &#8211; a love letter on a topic related to S.E. Asian film for an issue dedicated to Alexis and Nika. I wrote about Hai Leong&#8217;s love for Cinema.
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Singapore film culture and community cannot be written about without mentioning Toh Hai Leong. He seemed to be at every major Singapore film [...]]]></description>
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		<title>1 in a million</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What are the chances of stumbling on an archaeological dig, in in the heart of town, at City Hall, no less?
In Singapore, not too difficult as these German tourists have found. They found Lim Chen Sian and his merry men and women  excavating the City Hall and the Padang. The archaeologists are peaking under to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Latent Images, Film in Singapore, Book Launch 28 Dec</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A comprehensive primer on Singapore films and film culture. This 2009 edition is thoroughly updated from the previous 2000 edition. Latent Images isn&#8217;t only about films themselves, it is also about Singapore film culture beyond the box office. There are chapters on non-commercial film culture, with coverage on SIFF,  SFS, Goethe Institute, Substation, National Museum, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mission Statements Galore</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A random survey of mission statements of different schools. Fun reading!
From Doon School, India
&#8220;Each boy must train himself to think clearly so that he will be willing to come to conclusions that may be different from what he has expected and may point to something different from what we were brought up to believe to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spectacular Failure</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What is the point of making a work if it doesn&#8217;t have the smell of failure in its broil. Few people realise that its that teetering on the brink of&#8230;nonsense/silliness/anger/WTF feeling that gives a work its heartbeat and human-ness. And to that end, I love the idea of a failure, and a spectacular one at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>38th Parallel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am leaving for Paju the Korean city nearest the North-South Korean border soon to visit the DMZ (the contested no man&#8217;s land between the two states). In the itinerary, we will be going on a cycling trip along the border. Yes, this is part of a shoot for my next film. I have always [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Persistent Visions, 11 Sep Fri, 6pm</title>
		<description><![CDATA[London based, Singapore-born artist Erika Tan&#8217;s 3-screen installation Persistent Visions is opening at NUS Museum on Friday Night, 11/9/09. Persistent Visions is counter programmed against I, Polunin, about the films and photographs of Ivan Polunin. In her piece, she draws upon the &#8220;visual materials collected individuals on various colonising missions and deposited in the archive [...]]]></description>
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