Fonzi

Fonzi is a complex and multilayered examination of determinism versus free will, the nature of storytelling, and the nature of cinema itself. Fonzi takes the viewer into her seemingly happy pliant world where she meets her doppelganger on the television and has her nature as a character trapped in a frame revealed to her. As she tries to evade the doppelganger and escape the confines of a reality that has dummies for other humans playing out the plot of the viewer’s fancy, she makes a plea to the viewer to let her go and stop watching her. Eventually, she is set free to run off into the horizon out of the viewer’s sight.

Cast List:

Teo Min Bi, Charis Lee, Frankie Kwok, Doris Chua, Looi Wan Ping, Joshua Tan, Andrea Chee

Crew:

Director of Photography - Alex John Tan
Editor/Production & Sound Designer - Enny Tan
Assistant Director - Jessica Tan, Tascha Fipe
Camera Assistant - Nikhil Pase
Key Grip - Andre Rolando Cardoso
Grip - Looi Wan Ping, Asfar Jalil, Edwin Cheng, Derek Wee, Eugene Tan
Sound Recordist - Melvin Lee
Boom Operator - Daniel Koh, Wong Mun Lai
Production Assistant/Vehicle Operator - Andrea Chee

Keywords:

People: Family
Places: Theater, Cinema
Objects- Family Portraits, Television, Piano, Dummies, Film Reel, Trumpets, Car
Brands- Volkswagon
Relationships- Mother/Daughter, Mother/Child, Family
References- Charlie Chaplin
Themes- Surrealism, Doppelganger, Trapped, Captivity, Friendship, Authority, Metacinema, Isolation, Irony