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Beteiligte: Tan, Kenneth Paul
In: New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film, 8, 2011, 3, S. 213-223
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Intellect
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Umfang: 213-223
ISSN: 2040-0578
1474-2756
DOI: 10.1386/ncin.8.3.213_1
veröffentlicht in: New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film
Sprache: Englisch
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Kollektion: Intellect (CrossRef)
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<jats:p>This article surveys the approach of two important film-makers to the experience of redevelopment projects and the spatial reconfigurations of the urban landscape in Singapore. Tan Pin Pin's documentary <jats:italic>Moving House</jats:italic> depicts the violent collision of modern development with traditional rituals, showing the mass exhumation and transfer of graves to apartment-like style blocks to accommodate public housing construction. The ghosts of the dead return to such public housing estates in Eric Khoo's fiction film <jats:italic>12 Storeys</jats:italic> (1997) to pass through the claustrophobic spaces of alienation containing the struggles of upward mobility. In such examples, the supernatural and fantastic provide a violent reconstruction of the social memory of postcolonial Singapore.</jats:p>