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Nelson Yeo

Nelson Yeo

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Biography

Nelson Yeo is a Singaporean filmmaker. He graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Digital Filmmaking from Nanyang Technological University in 2011. He participated in Berlinale Talents Tokyo in 2014, BiFan Fantastic Film School in 2015 and Locarno Filmmakers Academy in 2018. He is currently working on his debut feature film which was selected to participate in SGIFF Southeast Asian Film Lab 2017.

Known For

#LookAtMe
8.5

A Youtuber posts an irreverent video trolling a megachurch pastor, in defence of his gay twin brother. He is vilified by society, tried in court, and pitted against a culture that threatens to destroy his family.

#LookAtMe

2022
Glorious Ashes
7.0

Set in the poor Mekong Delta coastal village of Thơm Rơm, the film follows the lives of three women, whose love lives are unusual and unique to their nature. The film is narrated from Hau's perspective, as she experiences life with a husband who only has eyes for another woman, and develops her growing friendship with her rival.

Glorious Ashes

2022
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Uncovers the remarkable story of how this small nation has made an indelible mark on Asian cinema in the past five years. Through exclusive interviews and captivating scenes across seven countries, we learn the rich diversity of Singaporean stories, and cast a forward-looking gaze towards an exciting cinematic future. A documentary commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Singapore Film Commission.

Singapore Films: To The World & Back

2024
Dreaming & Dying
8.0

Three middle aged friends reunite for the first time in years. Each of them sets out to confess unexpressed feelings but their vacation takes a surprising turn when the undercurrent of their past lives threaten to resurface.

Dreaming & Dying

2023
Dreaming
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Three former schoolmates—a married couple and a carefree bachelor—now middle-aged, reunite at a chalet. Hazy memories of the past are stirred up, leading to the resurfacing of a long-buried love triangle. The trio are left to confront their repressed feelings.

Dreaming

2021
Through Your Eyes
3.0

In a discotheque stuck in the 80s, four lives intertwine as each searches for connection and meaning amidst the pulsating beats and timeless allure of an era that refuses to fade.

Through Your Eyes

2025
Durian, Durian
8.0

An absurdist film in which two lost souls find each other underneath a durian tree. Both fed up with life, and in search of some kind of salvation. Eventually, it arrives, but in a different form than expected. A short and vibrant work which captures the transience of life on sultry Super 8.

Durian, Durian

2025
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In the middle of the night, a woman drags a huge heavy bag on the street. The content of her bag is a mystery.

Bagasi

2023
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A building in Singapore. Inside it, three people seemingly disconnected not only from each other but from the world as a whole. Social distancing is not just a WHO health protocol, it is a state of being among people within a society that, instead of living, performs life. An audiovisual work that manages to think of the pandemic as an aesthetic experience, an atmosphere, and not as a “theme”.

Plastic Sonata

2022
Mary, Mary, So Contrary
5.0

Repurposing and manipulating classic film footage and the filmmaker’s personal footage, the film weaves a phantasmagoric narrative of a Chinese lady named Ma Li who dreams she is a Caucasian named Mary.

Mary, Mary, So Contrary

2019
A Hole in the Bed
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Struggling with the memory of a past love, Andrew discovers that letting go is not as straightforward as it seems.

A Hole in the Bed

2009
Where the Light Shines Through
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Where The Light Shines Through documents the genesis and evolution of Rirkrit Tiravanija’s untitled 2018 (the infinite dimensions of smallness) for National Gallery Singapore’s Ng Teng Fong Roof Garden Commission. From the sourcing and transformation of bamboo in Chiang Mai, to its installation in Singapore, the documentary gives rare insights into the making of the artwork. By tracing Rirkrit's thoughts and portraying his cultural and spiritual environment, it offers broader understanding of his artistic practice. Structured around three meals, from day to night, the film meditates on the differences and similarities between two cities where the work was developed.

Where the Light Shines Through

2018
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Chang Er, a fairy maiden, embarks on a journey to the dark side of the moon to search for her lover Ho Yi, a sun-shooting archer who vanished on his quest to save the dying sun.

The House On The Moon

Here is Not There
5.0

Xun, a Chinese migrant worker, falls in love with Chong, a Malaysian colleague at her warehouse job. Their relationship is like an endless dance of two jellyfish in the ocean, making ends meet with no end in sight. Until one day, Xun announces she is pregnant, which is a deportable offense, and the fates of Xun and Chong are altered forever.

Here is Not There

2020
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A son witnesses a confrontation between his father and an assassin sent by his longtime arch-rival. Filmed in sepia tones and seeping with sleepy suspense, this Singapore-style HDB Western in the vein of Sergio Leone was first screened at The Substation’s First Take in 2008.

Fistful of Yusof Ishaks

2008
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Two young children traverse an empty urban landscape and eventually meet in an abandoned building to watch a film.

Myths

2015
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A young man in a cowboy hat delivers rolls of money received from his agent to other people with whom he has an unexplained and estranged relationship with: his friend, father, and “someone”, before having his last meal.

Nobody's Home

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In a quiet HDB void deck, one chinese man rants and raves. Believing himself to be the colonial administrator William Farquhar, the man preaches of the contributions he has made to Singapore, in comparison to his superior Stamford Raffles. Oblivious and bored, everyone ignores him. But the man continues his tirade towards the camera. Who is he even talking to?

What About Farquhar?

2022
Five Trees
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A chance encounter led a pair of old ex-lovers to unite again under the Five Trees.

Five Trees

2018
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The earthworm is a tunnel with openings on each end where the Earth is consumed and excreted. Shot in the tunnel of the now defunct KTM railway – the tracks that once connected Singapore and Malaysia, Wormhole is a penetrating meditation on Man and orifices.

Wormhole

2012