The Impossibility of Knowing

Tan Pin Pin
  • Singapore
  • 2010
  • 12min
  • HD
  • Color
DMZ Docs Project 2009-2010

Synopsis

Can a video camera capture the aura of a place that has experienced trauma? The director made a list of places where accidents happened and filmed those places. But the camera did not “capture” anything. It could be due to the limitations of physics, but the canal remained a canal, the house, a house.... Maybe the aura she sought doesn’t exist or maybe we don’t have the requisite gift to see the aura. Maybe you can see better than us.

Director

  • Tan Pin Pin
    Tan Pin Pin is one of Singapore's best known filmmakers and hold san MFA from North western University, USA. Her works have won numerous awards and nominations. Her film (2001) was the first documentary conceived and produced by a Singaporean that was shown on Discovery Channel in Asia. Meanwhile, (2005), a documentary about sounds of Singapore is the first Singapore documentary to have a theatrical release screening to sell out audiences. It was also invited to International Film Festival of Rotterdam and the Berlin House of World Cultures. Her second feature documentary (2007) screened at Berlin Film Festival and Pusan International Film Festival and won Taiwan International Documentary Festival.

    Invisible City (2007)
    Singapore GaGa (2005)

Credits

  • Director  Tan pin pin
  • Producer  Tan pin pin
  • Cinematographer  David Shiyang Liu
  • Editor  Grace Xiao
  • Sound  Jerry TEO

Production Company

  • Production Company  BFG Media

Distributor/World Sales

  • Distributor/World Sales  BFG Media
  • Address  51 Kent Rd 02-27 Singapore 210051
  • Tel  65 9851 5227
  • E-mail  pin@tanpinpin.com