I am a filmmaker in Singapore. This blog plugs my stuff, other peoples’ stuff, random stuff I find of interest to you. Please contact me at keble at lycos dot com.

My works include essay films screened in cinemas/festivals, programmes for TV, and experimental video installations. I love the moving image in any form though I watch TV sparingly. My films include Invisible City, Singapore GaGa, Moving House and its follow-up Gravedigger’s Luck, both of which they re-play on TV during the Hungry Ghosts’ month, a biography of John Woo for Discovery Channel, Building Dreams, an architecture TV series and 80kmh. Recently I completed 9th August, a permanent exhibit for the National Museum which consists of 40 years of National Day Parades squeezed into 7 minutes.

Invisible City won awards at Cinema du Reel as well as Taiwan International Documentary Festival. Singapore GaGa was voted the Best Film of 2006 by the Straits Times and it ran for a sold out 7 weeks. It also screened on Singapore Airlines inflight service. Other works won two Asian TV Awards, a Student Academy Award, an Eastman Scholarship as well as the Elle Magazine Filmmaker of the Year award.

I am glad that I have been able to make films in Singapore.

I am the board member of Substation, the Centre for the Arts, the National Archives of Singapore and I co-organise the annual Fly by Night Video Challenge. I was an Artist in Residence at University of Technology Sydney, at Singapore’s Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Institute of Policy Studies and at NUS’ Asia Research Institute.

In my free time, I listen to the radio, learn Mandarin, swim and cook.

- Buy a box set of my films (Singapore GaGa, Moving House, invisible City) here. If you live in Singapore, they are for sale at Kinokuniya, Gramophone, Objectifs

-Buy Moving House (in the Singapore Shorts Compilation) here

-Buy Singapore GaGa here.

Or you can view them in Singapore’s National Library or at the National University of Singapore Library. Search under Tan Pin Pin

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