The series of feature and short films, conversations, and other discursive elements are intimations of lived experiences and worlds aspired.

About the films

Nervous Translation (2017) | PG | Dir. Shireen Seno​
Date: Tuesday, 13 Sep
Time: 7pm – 8.30pm

The sparkling Nervous Translation is set in 1987, not long after the People Power Revolution that led to the fall of president Marcos. Seno depicts this precarious time purely through Yael’s childish eyes, which understandably reduce the threats to manageable proportions.

Memories of My Body (2018) | M18 | Dir. Garin Nugroho​
Date: Wednesday,14 Sep
Time: 7pm – 8.50pm

Modern politics and traditional Indonesian dance, masculinity and femininity merge in this new film from Garin Nugroho. Inspired by the life of choreographer and dancer Rianto, who himself acts as a narrator through mini-performances and poignant recollections: “My body is my home.”​

Dearest Sister (2016) | PG13 | Dir. Mattie Do​
Date: Tuesday, 20 September​
Time: 7pm – 8.40pm

A village girl travels to the Lao capital, Vientiane, to care for her rich cousin who has lost her sight and gained the ability to communicate with the dead.​

Island of the Hungry Ghosts (2018) | PG | Dir. Gabrielle Brady​
Date: Wednesday, 21 September​
Time: 7pm – 8.30pm

While the yearly crab migration takes place and locals perform rituals for ghosts, a therapist works in Christmas Island’s asylum seeker detention center. Both the non-human and human form a larger community of displaced beings in their shared vulnerability and eco-precarity.​

About the series

Worlding Through Cinema
10 – 23 September 2022

Triangulating three exhibition projects Yang tidak lupa, Intimate Landscapes, and a third one at the NUS Baba House, Worlding Through Cinema is a film programme focusing on subjectivities that encounter worlds both immediate and imaginative. The series of feature and short films, conversations, and other discursive elements are intimations of lived experiences and worlds aspired for in a precarious time of ecological disaster, human rights crises, contested bodies and identities, forgotten rituals and heritage, and overlooked labour. ​​

Through the porous boundaries between ‘self’ and ‘other’, ethical and political questions on how we treat the ‘other’ further emerge within this world-building. How do we examine kinship, care and labour within these stories of worlding? What knowledges can we glean when we encounter different spaces? What does a privileging of the non-human show us? Where do bodies belong to? In a time of great environmental change, how is this lived and felt in this place we call home?

These screenings are presented as part of the Worlding Through Cinema film programme. For more information about the film programme, please head to: museum.nus.edu.sg/worldingthroughcinema