Eclipses

︎︎︎Trailer 

︎SYNOPSIS
A woman begins to come to terms with society after having withdrawn into her own world to mourn her late husband.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.

︎CAST

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


︎CREW

Photographed and Directed by

Daniel Hui

Written by

Daniel Hui,
Lim Lung Chieh,
Vel Ng

Produced by

Tan Bee Thiam


︎TECHNICAL INFORMATION

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


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


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