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In: | New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film, 8, 2011, 3, S. 213-223 |
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Intellect
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Medientyp: | Artikel, E-Artikel |
Umfang: | 213-223 |
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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) |
<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> |