Diminishing Memories I & II

The Substation and the Asian Film Archive are glad to share with you a Singapore film that will open at The Arts House next week - Dimishing Memories I & II by Eng Yee Peng.

Diminishing Memories is an intimate and thought-provoking documentary about what Lim Chu Kang and kampongs mean to younger generation of Singaporeans like the filmmaker. If you have not caught it at the Singapore International Film Festival yet, you may want to check it out.

If you have already seen it and enjoyed it much like I do, I am sure the filmmaker would appreciate if you can help to get your friends to come watch it too. Eng Yee Peng, the director of Dimishing Memories I & II will also be graciously donating her proceeds from the premiere to The Substation and the Asian Film Archive.

Thirty-one-year-old filmmaker Eng Yee Peng is a former resident of Lim Chu Kang before this rural community was uprooted to give way to redevelopment. Gone are the good, old kampong days; and her childhood memories, once fresh, are fading. Diminishing Memories I & II are two thought-provoking and intimate documentaries, a tribute to Yee Peng's indelible memories of Lim Chu Kang. Follow Yee Peng's personal journey in her attempt to re-capture her lost childhood and her struggle in letting her beloved kampong go. Both films are narrated in Mandarin and subtitled in English, with interviews conducted in Mandarin, English and the Teochew dialect.

Synopsis
Diminishing Memories I (50mins)
takes you on a personal journey with Eng Yee Peng, the filmmaker, to recollect her childhood memories of living in Lim Chu Kang, a village that has already died and its spirit dispersed. Find out more about the former Lim Chu Kang community and landscape; with the use of archival photographs, old 16-mm film footage, interviews of former residents, and an animation that will piece together memories of kampong life that is almost unheard of today.

Diminishing Memories II (49mins)
Prompted by the Singapore government's recent announcement of a plan to turn Lim Chu Kang into an agriculture-cum-entertainment attraction, Yee Peng sets out to revisit vestiges of her haunting childhood for the second time. A new film with fresh content on interviews with the new investors and current tenants of Lim Chu Kang, Yee Peng is forced to face the deepest fear in her heart. Find out how she learns to accept the much-changed Lim Chu Kang community and how the evolving times have also altered its spirit.

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Film Screenings:
Fridays (19th September & 3rd October)- 7:30pm
Saturdays (20th September & 4th October)- 4pm, 7:30pm

Screenings will be followed by the director's Q&A sessions

Venue:
The Arts House, Screening Room
1 Old Parliament Lane, Singapore 179429
(Nearest MRT- Raffles Place)

Ticket Prices:
S$8.50 Full S$6.50
Concession (Students & Senior Citizens)

Tickets are available at The Arts House Box Office Only 75 tickets per screening, book early to avoid disappointment!

Ticket Bookings: The Arts House
Ticketing Hotline: 6332 6919 or email tickets@toph.com.sg
Bulk Bookings: 6332 6912 or email martini@toph.com.sg
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