Bani Haykal

A young man is working as a housekeeper in an empty mansion. When its owner returns to start his mayoral election campaign, the young man bonds with him and defends him when his campaign is vandalized, setting off a chain of violence.

Over a year after a highly anticipated album launch was thwarted by a pandemic, dark pop duo .gif finally brings HAIL NOTHING to the big screen. In this first-ever live presentation of all the songs from their acclaimed 2020 record, Chew Wei Shan and Nurudin Sadali are joined by music stalwarts Charlie Lim, Sarah Teh and Bani Haykal. Recorded at Snakeweed Studios and produced by Very Crafty Films, the special set features lush new vocal arrangements, riveting performances, transformative design, and a ton of raw emotion.

What constitutes the unity of Southeast Asia—a region never unified by language, religion or political power? With The Critical Dictionary of Southeast Asia—a collaborative platform that facilitates ongoing research, a matrix for generating future projects, and an oracular montage machine—Ho Tzu Nyen proposes 26 terms (one for each letter of the latin alphabet) that question, problematise, and address the complex definition of the territories under this nomenclature.

In the forest of copper columns, a man performs a ritual of cleansing.

Using the visual thesaurus, this animation ponders upon the word “Remember” to see where the word trail leads to if we take things to its natural conclusion. “Remember” leads to “Commemorate”, leads to… there are no wrong turns. Explore and see where we take you.

Debbie Ding has been documenting survey markings and graffiti in Singapore. One particular set of graffiti catches her attention. Found in the back stairwell in Pearl Centre, Chinatown, the anonymous drawer roughly sketches a man and a woman beside a series of three numbers. Several of these same scribbles are found in different parts of the stairwell. What does it mean? What is the writer trying to communicate? Debbie, like a detective tries to decipher the meaning of these scribbles and she talks also of graffiti in general. Are these acts of vandals or are they notes from people seeking to communicate with others? Or are they acts of memorialisation by the writers themselves? Perhaps it is all three. Recently, Debbie excitedly reports, in the Bugis area near NLB, the same scribble. Has the Yangtze Scribbler moved?