Eclipses
︎︎︎Trailer︎SYNOPSIS
A woman begins to come to terms with society after having withdrawn into her own world to mourn her late husband. The film splinters away to document the characters surrounding her – people from different classes, including the director’s own family. An investigation of the landscapes in which we live, work, and play, this is Singapore seen through the prisms of family, class and race.
Vel Ng
Hey Mun Cheok
Violet Goh
Chia Pong Heng
David Ee
Goh Kim Han
Endah Priyatin
Yeang Ah See
Lim Lung Chieh
Mohammad Mubarak Hussain
Photographed and Directed by
Daniel Hui
Written by
Daniel Hui,
Lim Lung Chieh,
Vel Ng
Produced by
Tan Bee Thiam
Original title
Eclipses
International Title
Eclipses
Duration
103 min / Colour
Aspect Ratio
1.33:1
Shooting Format
16mm
Screening Format
DCP
Sound
Mono
Year of Release
2011
Language
English, Teochew, Mandarin, Bahasa Indonesia, Bengali
Subtitles
English
Country of production
Singapore
Production Company
13 Little Pictures
PRESS
“Eclipses [is] extraordinary, because what [it presents] is not only the information, but the souls of the persons.” – Jit Prokeaw
“Never before has cinema spoken to me in ways as such, and the experience from having two characters speak straight to you is both liberating and intimate.” – Sindie
“Never before has cinema spoken to me in ways as such, and the experience from having two characters speak straight to you is both liberating and intimate.” – Sindie
DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT
Eclipses was conceived at the juncture of the personal and the political, the individual and the collective, the particular and the universal. It will attempt to navigate the uncertain territory between Heidegger and Marx, taking as its starting point an amalgamation of Europa ’51 and The Man With A Movie Camera. It is a film about absence (hence, the title) – the absence of the husband that ignites the story, the absence of the world that the woman denies, and later the absence of the woman itself as she is subsumed into the world. It will be a sociological document that describes society at every level of production; at the same time, it will be an emotional document about the different stages of grieving, about realizing one’s place in the world around us.
FESTIVALS
Pixel Bunker Award for International New Talent, DocLisboa International Film Festival 2013
World Film Festival Bangkok 2013
Reggio Emilia Asian Film Festival 2012
Singapore International Film Festival 2011
