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Conversation about The Singapore Film Industry
Date: Wed 26 Nov
Time: 5.15pm – 7pm
Type: Talk
Venue: F201, LASALLE College of the Arts
Admission: Free. Seats on first-come, first-serve basis.
In this talk, Professor Uhde will discuss Puppet Animation, specifically on The Puppet Animation by Kihachiro Kawamoto and his inspiration by the puppet animation of Jiri Trnka. Kawamoto studied and worked with him in Prague. This is a good illustration of the East-West ties and the border-crossing subject in general. Professor Uhde will show two shorts by Kawamoto and one to two shorts (or excerpts) from Trnka.
This will be followed by a dialogue with the audience members about the Singapore Film Industry. Latent Images (2000) remains one of the first academic texts published about the Singapore Film Industry. Several changes have taken place in the past nine years since Latent Images’ first publication; a second edition of Latent Images is slated to be published 2009. Prof Uhde will share with us his observations about the local film industry in recent years.
About the speaker
Jan Uhde, Professor of Film Studies at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, writings include Latent Images: Film in Singapore OUP 2000, (co-author with Yvonne Ng Uhde), Latent Images: Film in Singapore CD-ROM (2003) and Vision and Persistence, a history of the Ontario Film Institute. He has contributed to periodicals in Canada, the United States, Singapore, Germany, the Netherlands and the Czech Republic. He is the founding editor of Kinema, a journal for film and audiovisual media published at the University of Waterloo since 1993.
This lecture is presented by LASALLE’s Faculty of Media Arts.
