10 Dutch and Singaporean animated shorts, featuring an array of colours, imagination, and emotions, are paired in response to one another.

 

1) Chicago Footwarmers (1967)
Director: Ton van Saane
Runtime: 2 mins
Country: Netherlands
Language: No dialogue
Rating: PG

Synopsis
The movement of colourful dots, streaks and scratches embellished on a film roll synchronise with the cheerful jazz music by Johnny Dodds and the Chicago Footwarmers.

 

2) Dance of Water (2009)
Director: Teo Chia Kai
Runtime: 2 mins
Country: Singapore
Language: No dialogue
Rating: PG

Synopsis
Hand drawn water effects is set to the music “Danse Espagnole” by Manuel de Falla.

 

3) I move, so I am (1997) 
Director: Gerrit van Dijk
Runtime: 8 mins
Country: Netherlands
Language: No dialogue
Rating: PG13

Synopsis
The artist draws his self-portraits in uninterrupted lines, interweaving images and soundscapes from his personal memories and artistic influences.

 

4) Study of a Singaporean Face (2015)
Director: Kan Lume and Megan Wonowidjoyo
Runtime: 4 mins
Country: Singapore
Language: No dialogue
Rating: PG

Synopsis
Over 1,000 hand drawn portraits of real-life MRT commuters were used to create a tapestry of faces, casting a multi-dimensional and reflective gaze on the Singaporean identity.

 

5) Get Real! (2010)
Director: Evert de Beijer
Runtime: 11 mins
Country: Netherlands
Language: No dialogue
Rating: NC16

Synopsis
High schooler Spotty is addicted to his video game. He exchanges his grey reality for a virtual world and assumes the role of bodyguard to an Eastern European techno singer, where he lives out his heroic and sexual fantasies.

 

6) The Tiger of 142B (2016)
Director: Harry Zhuang Weifu & Henry Zhuang Weiguo
Runtime: 11 mins
Country: Singapore
Language: English
Rating: PG13

Synopsis
A young unemployed man has difficulty communicating with his girlfriend. As he struggles to cope with his fragile state of mind, a series of mysterious killings unsettles the residents of Block 142B. Some claimed to have seen a tiger roaming in the estate. Adapted from Dave Chua’s ‘The Tiger of 142B’, from the book ‘The Beating and Other Stories’.

 

7) T.R.A.N.S.I.T. (1998)
Director: Piet Kroon
Runtime: 12 mins
Country: Netherlands
Language: No dialogue
Rating: M18

Synopsis
Set in the 1920s, T.R.A.N.S.I.T tells the story of a passionate and exploitative love affair. Presented in seven sequences and animation styles, the nature of the couple’s relationship is unveiled as they journey through Europe.

 

8) Piece of Meat (2019)
Director: Huang Junxiang and Jerrold Chong
Runtime: 11 mins
Country: Singapore
Language: No dialogue
Rating: PG13

Synopsis
Enslaved in a surreal world of living objects, a lamb chop does whatever it can to survive and make ends meet.

 

9) Father and Daughter (2000)
Director: Michaël Dudok de Wit
Runtime: 8 mins
Country: Netherlands
Language: No dialogue
Rating: Exempted

Synopsis
A father bids farewell to his young daughter at the dock and sets sail for the sea. The girl returns to the dock at different years and stages of her life, but the father does not return.

 

10) Between Us Two (2017)
Director: Tan Wei Keong
Runtime: 5 mins
Country: Singapore
Language: English
Rating: R21

Synopsis
A son conveys his unspoken feelings to his dead mother.

 

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Reciprocal 2023 runs from 2 – 25 June 2023. See the full programme here.

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