Shelter

A meditation on obsolesence, this film personifies a soon-to-be-demolished bus-stop as a protagonist who observes the transient human relationships and conditions that are enacted under the temporary shelter it provides.

  • Director: Tan Bee Thiam
  • Runtime: 13m25s
  • Genre: Drama
  • Rating: PG
  • Availability: library@esplanade
  • Accession No: 2005-D-0071
  • Subtitles: English
  • Release Year: 2002
  • Producer: Agnes Ng
  • Language: English, Hokkien
  • Production Country: Singapore

Cast List:

  • Shen Ye, Rajeshwari Asokaraj, Ng Tzer Huei, Lim Chian Sing, Jace Lee, A/P Ban Kah Choon

Crew:

  • Screenplay - Tan Bee Thiam ;
  • Editors - Pan Lexin, Tan Bee Thiam
  • Cinematography - Hoong Sze Wei
  • Sound Design and Music Composition - Ng Tzer Huei
  • Art Director - Pan Lexin
  • Props Mistress - Lee Pei Yee
  • Wardrobe Mistress - Ho Bin Jin
  • Cameraman - Toh Eu Jin, Pan Lexin, Tan Bee Thiam
  • Continuity Supervisor - Lee Pei Yee, Ho Bin Jin
  • Storyboard Artist - Robert Tan
  • Still Photographer - Pan Lexin
  • Casting Manager - Delvin Lee, Lee Pei Yee, Pan Lexin

Keywords:

  • Location - Bus stop
  • People - Old Lady, Elderly, Gangster
  • Subject matter -Inter-racial love, Inter-racial romance
  • Themes - Obsolescence, Transience, Temporality, Impermanence, Loss, Age, Change, Endings

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