Presented by Asian Film Archive
DOUBLE BILL: Pain & Zombie Dogs
Film ScreeningDiscussionAFA: Reel Singapore
Event Description
This double-bill screening will be followed by a conversation with guest programmer Aishah Abu Bakar.
Pain (1994)
Director: Eric Khoo
Runtime: 31 mins
Country: Singapore
Language: English
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).
Synopsis
Zombie Dogs (2004)
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.