Hello. I am a filmmaker born and raised in Singapore. Friends call me “Pin”. This blog plugs mainly my stuff. You can contact me at tanpinpin at gmail dot com. I am sometimes found on facebook and on twitter. My 3-min showreel can be found here.
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How to see, where to buy the films
If you are looking to buy the 3 DVD box set, I am sorry it is sold out. However, copies of Singapore GaGa are still available at Kinokuniya, Takashimaya, Singapore (tel: 6737 5021). If you are abroad, buy online from Objectifs films. Copies of my films including those from the box set and hard to find ones like 80km/h can be borrowed from the National Library or the National University of Singapore Library. I also have a youtube and a vimeo channel showing excerpts of my films. Thank you for your interest.
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BIO
Tan Pin Pin’s films, explorations of Singapore, her histories, contexts and limits have found loyal followers in different contexts. They have screened at notable festivals like Berlin, Pusan, Cinema du Reel, Visions du Reel, Rotterdam and at the Flaherty Seminar. They have also screened internationally on Discovery Channel. In Singapore, they have received sold out theatrical screenings, toured schools and was acquired by Singapore Airlines for their in-flight entertainment services. Meanwhile, her video installations were shown in the President’s Young Talent Show, Singapore Art Show, p-10, Aedes Gallery, Berlin.
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She has won or been nominated for more than 20 awards, most recently for Invisible City. The citation from Cinema du Reel describes it as “A witty, intellectually challenging essay on history and memory as tools of civil resistance”. Singapore GaGa, voted the Best Film, 2006, Straits Times, is described as “One of the best films about Singapore”. Pin Pin won a scholarship to study for an MFA at Northwestern University, USA. Moving House, her thesis film won the Student Academy Award for Best Documentary.
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Pin Pin is a co-founding member of filmcommunitysg, a community of independent filmmakers. She worked with colleagues to have documentaries and films with artistic and cultural merit specifically included in the Singapore Film Commission’s New Talent Feature Grant Scheme. She was until recently on the Board of The Substation where she worked with her colleagues to search for its new Artistic Director. She was also on the Board of the National Archives of Singapore. She with Yuni Hadi co-founded the Fly by Night Video Challenge which has seen several hundred short films made in the eight years it has been run. She has been on film juries of Cinemanila, Jiffest and DMZDocs amongst others.
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Her most recent works are The Impossibility of Knowing, a commission from DMZDocs and Snow City, both of which were shown at the Singapore Biennale 2011.
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Latest! Yangtze Scribbler and thesaurus were recently completed can be viewed online at the Singapore Memory Project Portal
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Thank you for visiting. Peace!