This double-bill screening will be followed by a conversation with guest programmer Aishah Abu Bakar in conversation with AFA programmer Alex Lee.

Pain (1994)
Director: Eric Khoo
Runtime: 31 mins
Country: Singapore
Language: English
Rating: R21

Synopsis

In this visceral and raw sadomasochistic portrait of a young man, Eric Khoo offers spectators a glimpse into a character’s imploding psyche. Moving through derelict and abandoned buildings, the young man resorts to increasing acts of self-mutilation and enacts a violent and savage murder.

Eric Khoo won Best Director (Singapore Short Film) and a Special Achievement award (Singapore Short Film) for Pain at the 1994 Singapore International Film Festival (SGIFF).

Zombie Dogs (2004)
Original Title: Eat Shit, Fuck and Die
Director: Toh Hai Leong
Runtime: 63 mins
Country: Singapore
Language: English
Rating: R21

Synopsis

A cult filmmaker is looking for actors for a snuff film. He keeps rattling monologues about film and anything and everything. Living in a squalid flat with his older brother, they denounce the material and sterile life in Singapore, without making a better case for the alternative.

Conceived and produced with Eric Khoo and Chew Tze Chuan with an estimated budget of SGD500, Toh Hai Leong’s Zombie Dogs is equal parts a grungy, raw mockumentary about filmmaking, as it is a confrontation with all manners of authority and conformity by the marginalised in this ‘fine’ country.

This screening is part of the programme Reel Singapore. For more screenings of this programme. Please click here. 

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