From worm fetishists to a son helping bring food home for his vampire stepmum, 13 Little Pictures is proud to present a selection of 4 short films that are being screened at the 10th Singapore Short Cuts.

 

WORMHOLE
by Yeo Siew Hua and Nelson Yeo | 2012 | 3 mins | Rating TBC

Gallery Theatre, Basement, National Museum of Singapore
03 Aug 2013, 2pm
(Free tickets can be collected at The Stamford Visitors Services Counter)

While one might hear the vastness of the ocean when holding up a conch shell to one’s ear, the gentle whispers from an earthworm’s orifice offers the sounds of events past and present. Wormhole showcases a community of earthworm fetishists in search of time travel in a fertile earthworm space below a bridge.

 

KOPI JULIA
by Tan Bee Thiam 2013 | 7 mins | Rating TBC

Gallery Theatre, Basement, National Museum of Singapore
03 Aug 2013, 2pm
The Stamford Visitors Services Counter (Free tickets to be collected a week before each screening)

Ikram brings home his classmates to feed Julia, his blood-sucking stepmum. When Julia starts flirting with a classmate, Ikram has been secretly admiring, he flies into a rage of jealousy. An adaptation from a short story by Faizal Sulaiman, Kopi Julia pays tribute to the Malay horror films made in the 50s in Singapore.

 

TADPOLES
by Ivan Tan | 2013 | 12 mins | Rating TBC

Gallery Theatre, Basement, National Museum of Singapore
03 Aug 2013, 2pm
(Free tickets can be collected at The Stamford Visitors Services Counter)

While an unusual monsoon threatens to flood the Eastern part of Singapore, two families are stranded indoors. A young couple on the verge of divorce discovers the sole reason for them to stay together. Next door, a young boy brings his estranged parents together with his love of tadpoles. Ultimately, their efforts seem futile in the face of the relentless rain outside.

 

 

ANIMAL SPIRITS

by Daniel Hui
2013 | 9 mins | Rating TBC

Gallery Theatre, Basement, National Museum of Singapore
04 Aug 2013, 2pm
The Stamford Visitors Services Counter (Free tickets to be collected a week before each screening)
3 & 4 August screening (Ticket collection from 27 July)

*World premiere
Structured as a diary entry, a documentary and perhaps, under the guise of a self-help video, Animal Spirits provides two testimonies of students living in Los Angeles: Mara Otero who left her management job and partner behind in Pennsylvania, and Hyesung Moon who is dependent on her mother’s financial support.

As an inquiry into the role of emotions and instincts within the global economy, Animal Spirits is a perceptive and personal look at how the human psyche is shaped by the movement of capital. The confessional dialogue and images from these two testimonies offer frank examples of how human desires and connections can co-exist.