03-FLATS Trailer 2 Busan International Film Festival 2014 (Wide Angle Documentary Competition) Seoul International Architecture Film Festival 2014 Singapore International Film Festival 2014 Housing, Heartland, Home. Three Women and Singapores public housing. Housing, heartland, home. Amidst the backdrop of Singapore’s celebrated and politicized public housing intended for families, 03-Flats follows the domestic existence of three single women who are striving for independence at different stages of their lives. It juxtaposes the nationalistic ambitions of a state-driven housing program against the occupants’ struggles to preserve personal routines, traditions and aspirations. 03-Flats embodies prosaic domesticity wherein existence becomes spontaneous and life ironically escapes formulation. Singapore’s public housing—the outcome of a national initiative to combat housing shortage and poor living conditions in the 1960s through modernized mass housing—is today a ubiquitous feature of its built environment. The high-rise housing blocks accommodate almost 85% of the island’s population. With its utopian leanings, the project promises better quality of life, security for the family, closer communal and filial ties, spatially- engineered inter-racial tolerance, and fair provisions for all. Unprecedented in its successful implementation and uptake, this statistically inclusive space is also paradoxically exclusive. In line with broader economic developmental plans to increase fertility levels and encourage intergenerational living, family units are markedly prioritized in the housing selection process. Thus, if one is not part of this prioritized group then choices are considerably limited, and the drive to set up a place to call one’s own becomes significantly more challenging. Set amidst this backdrop, 03-FLATS negotiates the perceptions and meanings associated with this politicized national project. It follows the domestic existence of three single women who strive for independence at different stages of their lives. Recalibrating the focus from the without to the within, the film moves between the ordered public spaces outside these flats, and the well-meaningly spare or cluttered, and at times flamboyant, lived spaces of its occupants. Combining the documentary genre with formal attention to the spatial nuances in each flat and its occupant’s routines, 03-FLATS is part of a research initiative by Dr Lilian Chee at the Department of Architecture, National University of Singapore to probe how domesticity—a key component wherein home is produced—could be viscerally represented and experientially encountered. Filmed over 9 months and edited from 200 hours of original footage, the film juxtaposes nationalistic ambitions against struggles to maintain personal routines, preserve traditions and create space for individual identities. By overlaying routinized time and space with customized domestic practices that inevitably challenge spatial and temporal norms—preparing to receive a village-full of visitors, sewing a child’s pyjamas, or making a room-size drawing—difference, resilience and resistance are multiply manifested in these flats. 03-FLATS shows how, within the domestic realm, resistance is enacted through incremental micro-changes that are opportunistic rather than oppositional. These actions counteract the spatio-temporal ennui of mass housing. The film’s primary audiences are Singapore residents who will be offered a counter-narrative of public housing that supplements what they are accustomed to. It will also appeal to an international audience interested in contemporary Singaporean domesticity. Credits: Direction/Cinematography/Editing/Sound Lei Yuan Bin Executive Producer Lilian Chee Producers Tan Bee Thiam & Lei Yuan Bin Title Design Oh Wen Xin Research Assistants Serene Ng Xiao Qian Felicia Lin Yanle Phoaw Yen Shan Kenneth Koh Qibao Lee Ling Wei Jan Lim Hui Min Lin Derong Special Thanks Sim Boon Ngoh Amy Tashiana Tang Ling Nah Peter Sim & Joan Sim The families & friends of Tang Ling Nah & Amy Tashiana Ailian Chee Willie Koh Lin Derong Jessica Yeo Tan Hui Cheng Ahmad Mashadi Wong Yunn Chii Heng Chye Kiang Fu Yuming Lee Chatametikool Archival footage provided by Ministry of Culture, Courtesy of National Archives of Singapore Supported by 13 Little Pictures Department of Architecture, School of Design and Environment, National University of Singapore Ministry of Education, Singapore Media Development Authority (MDA) FARM In Association with White Light 90 mins DCP Colour, Black & White 5.1 Surround, English, Mandarin & Malay English Subtitles 03-FLATS facebook/03Flats 13littlepictures Contact: 03flats@gmail _______ FOLLOW LIPSapp Classic Radio _______ FB: r-js/1vz7Pcz / TW: r-js/1kHd2Qt / Listen to LIPSapp Classic Radio r-js/1dOIQ18 #classicrock #rollingstones #ledzeppelin #santana #eagles #zztop #thewho #beatles #elvis #jimihendrix #dylan #acdc #michaeljackson #pinkfloyd #madonna #u2
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