Come down to Casual Poet

This is a series of photographs that Weidong has been working on,

largely involving me and alvin leeeee also

THIS IS SO FUNNY

northern light

on alvin lee, 2008

surpressing light

koo chia meng, 2008

我提供太陽。/ i provide the sun

Been working on series of promotional videos for the Singapore Theatre Festival with Weidong and Shuming. Apart from the ones for Swordfish, angel-ism and Tree/House, there are some others coming up and will be posted once they're done.

Support The Singapore Theatre Festival 2008

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Apocalypse: LIVE!

Video shot and Edited by He Shu-ming

The Lunar Interviews: Part of Blood Binds

Video shot and edited by He Shu-ming

Sperm: Part of Blood Binds

Video shot and edited by Lin Weidong

The Last Temptation of Stamford Raffles

video shot by ellen/charlotte/chia meng. Edited by chia meng

Tree / House

Video shot by He Shu-ming / Edited by Lin Weidong

Part of the Singapore Theatre Festival

http://www.singaporetheatrefestival.com/

angel-ism

video shot and edited by koo chia meng

part of the Singapore Theatre Festival.

www.singaporetheatrefestival.com

The Swordfish, then the Concubine

video shot by koo chia meng and edited by lin weidong

Videos shot and edited by He Shu-ming

Part of the Singapore Theatre Festival

http://www.singaporetheatrefestival.com/

Still

為棟, 2008

Caught Unaware

Alvin Lee, 2008

shot on MUJI disposable

When you see this picture

what do you see?

哈哈。
偶爾回想起往事也十分有趣。
我折斷淑貞的娃娃頭。
曾被鄰居小孩打。
學滑輪跌得屁股流血。
和佩珊牽手。
五年級課室外的雞被殺。
燿榮。雨天。
聖中的萬里長城和雞翅膀。
學生軍的親兄弟。
岱容。
淡濱泥車站大罵丑妹。
等朋友。等朋友。等朋友。
智勤。錦榮。康立。偉康。世維。
麗玲。育賢。跳舞。考試。
馬來西亞越野騎單車。
學校非法過夜被老師罵。
偉文。伊玲。牽施蔚的手。
爬東攀西。屢次考試不及格。
卡拉OK釀豆腐。吸煙。
每天巴士踫到的賤貨。
當兵。
如果我也有時光機，
我會捨棄什麽，重獲什麽？
我————後悔了。

Recent Notable Films

1. Ten Promises To My Dog

Caught one of the last cinema screenings of this film. There has been a surge of this genre of family films coming from Japan in the past few years. The films obviously is targetted towards the movie going families primarily with kids or pet lovers. This series of 'pet' genre films usually bring audiences through the joy of having a pet, living with one and dealing with the death of one. At once cheery and later on teary, these kind of films does remind us that there is after all a little bit of humanity inside these creatures or vice versa. This film is the first film to make me cry uncontrollably in years, after Ice Age (please forgive me, the death of the mammoth's family is very sad) and 1996's Good Will Hunting. Although this is not the first film of its sort, I am supremely amazed at the narrative structure in how it is able to reduce grown men to tears. I must really try to understand how this film is able to allow audiences to connect to the relationship between the girl and her pet and successfully lets individual audiences sink in and relate our own lives to their connection. When I was crying, I was thinking of everyone important in my life and my immense fear of regret. Damn dog.

2. Help Me Eros
This is the second feature of Li Kang-Sheng (Tsai Ming Liang's muse), following The Missing. This story, sadly for the horn-dogs and Yang Tze 'umbrellas', is not really about eroticism. Yes, sex scenes a couple but they make up less than 20% of the film and I would prefer to think of them as neurotic sex that exists in an almost imagined space. Firstly, let's give LKS some credit by not assuming this film is a TML rip-off. This film is by my own standard not 'slow' cinema. The pacing picks up pretty well actually (either that I've learn to appreciate TML better) and is jammed packed with subtle visual puns and symbolisms. All in all the character developments I would say is not extremely spot-on believable but is 3D enough to understand their motivations. What I would think really works in this film by LKS is the storyline and the visual elements. We all should give LKS a chance. This is seriously not bad!

3. Red Cliff
Massive production costs just makes it harder for me to stomach this. I would expect a lot of cheesy but still expensive CGI which I imagine someone saying 'My God That's Awesome' to be quite prevalent throughout but actually, their choice of CGI inputs were by far quite tasteful for me. I guess most money went to the cast and extras which is pretty impressive in terms of performance and quantity respectively. Romance of Three Kingdoms brought on screen by John Woo brought out the skeptic in me for I, never liked Three Kingdoms as literature and never really think John Woo is capable beyond what he does previously. However, I sat through the 2.5 hours films without once feeling bored and the film caught my attention every second. The deployment of tactics and the executions were enthralling to watch and Zhu Ge Liang was the most memorable character of all so far, for the first of two installments. I just wasn't so ok with the ending dove scenes (I told myself Aska Yang is gonna appear and start singing) and the very low class text zooming out to alert us to watch Part II. Other than that, went beyond my expectations.

Waiting to catch

• Summer Rain
• The Dark Knight
• Wall.e
• The Mummy III
• 12 Lotus
• The Go Master
• The Book of Revelation

偷窺：別人的私生活。

This picture is not mine.

It's supposed to be Alvin's but

its not his as well.

Somehow these photographs found its way into

our possession.

We hope that the owner who got Alvin's photos

are not mutilating his images.

But some of these images, taken by secondary school girls

are quite inspiring.

SALON

red cliff

michelangelo antonioni

Master of visual language. He is.