NOTES FROM SERANGOON ROAD

And you can buy one too! Where to buy it? It will be sold at the world premiere on 19th July. Details here

Yesterday, I went to visit Ivan Polunin who is in Invisible City, and he had a present for me. He wanted to give me the ambient sound of Sago Lane (in Chinatown) that he recorded in the 1950’s so that I could hear what that street in Singapore sounded like. At the expense of sounding like I am a sound fetish, I can’t wait to hear it. Problem is, the tape is on quarter inch format and I don’t have the machine to play it. I’ll find a way and include it onto the Invisible City DVD as a special feature. I am dying of curiousity.

The end of the production of Invisible City marks the beginning of another phase, the publicising of its run next month at The Arts House. This new phase is more fun. You get to meet people rather than sweat in the edit room agonising about how to subtitle “immortal” in Chinese. In this phase, I feel a like a politician at election time, shaking hands, kissing babies and in between, telling people about the film. But this is necessary. For without a marketing budget, how else are people going to find out about this if not through the horses mouth herself? So yesterday, Rojak was kind enough to let me gatecrash their swell party at National Stadium to play the trailer (world premiere!). Today, I find myself at another gathering to introduce the film. And so it will be for the next two months. I am fortunately helped by Mindwasabi and Teng Qian Xi. If you’d like to help help us publicise, link Invisible’s site to yours or even better, hang a film still which you can download from http://invisiblecity.sg. Thank you!

Friend from my TV days, Wee Li Lin’s latest film opens in July. Its called Gone Shopping. To commemorate the Great Singapore Sale that has just begun here in Singapore, here’s a still from the movie

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