Pera Film takes the audience on a cinematographic journey to discover the insights of the territory featured in Pera Museum’s Singapore Unseen exhibition.
Dreaming Singapore presents: a poignant yet darkly humorous story which follows the lives of six individuals as they navigate the rapidly changing conditions experienced in today’s modern South-East Asian citiesin Singapore Dreaming; the growing pains of Tan Boon Huat, the middle son of a pawn farmer in an island town in Becoming Royston; described as “a small gem” by Screen Daily magazine and the first Singaporean feature film to win at the Cannes Film Festival in Ilo Ilo; how the breaking of a man on the brisk of bankruptcy leads to a major international crisis in Unlucky Plaza; uncovering the processes and motivations behind internationally renowned photographers from Singapore through interviews in Image Makers; the new life of Siva, who has nobody to welcome him at home after he gets released from prison after serving eight years for smuggling in A Yellow Bird; the story of a correctional officer whose ethical notion about promotion is disrupted after he gets transferred to a maximum security prison in Apprentice; and director Kirsten Tan takes full advantage of the beautiful scenery and a charismatic elephant to tell a story about our drift from fundamental human needs and values in Pop Aye.
Free admissions. Drop in, no reservations.
May 4
19:00 Singapore Dreaming
May 5
14:00 Becoming Royston
16:00 A Yellow Bird
18:00 Unlucky Plaza
May 6
14:00 Image Makers: Singapore Photographers
Pop Aye
16:00 Image Makers: Singapore Photographers
18:00 Apprentice
May 9
19:00 Ilo Ilo
May 11
21:00 Pop Aye
May 13
16:00 Singapore Dreaming
18:00 Unlucky Plaza
May 17
19:00 Image Makers: Singapore Photographers
May 19
18:00 Ilo Ilo
May 4
19:00 Singapore Dreaming
May 5
14:00 Becoming Royston
16:00 A Yellow Bird
18:00 Unlucky Plaza
May 6
14:00 Pop Aye
16:00 Image Makers: Singapore Photographers
18:00 Apprentice
May 9
19:00 Ilo Ilo
May 11
21:00 Pop Aye
May 13
16:00 Singapore Dreaming
18:00 Unlucky Plaza
May 17
19:00 Image Makers: Singapore Photographers
May 19
18:00 Ilo Ilo
May 20
14:00 Apprentice
16:00 A Yellow Bird
18:00 Becoming Royston
Program Trailer
Each memory tells an intimate story; each collection presents us with the reality of containing an intimate story as well. The collection is akin to a whole in which many memories and stories of the artist, the viewer, and the collector are brought together. At the heart of a collection is memory, nurtured from the past and projecting into the future.
Following the opening of his studio, “El Chark Societe Photographic,” on Beyoğlu’s Postacılar Caddesi in 1857, the Levantine-descent Pascal Sébah moves to yet another studio next to the Russian Embassy in 1860 with a Frenchman named A. Laroche, who, apart from having worked in Paris previously, is also quite familiar with photographic techniques.
Tuesday - Saturday 10:00 - 19:00
Friday 10:00 - 22:00
Sunday 12:00 - 18:00
The museum is closed on Mondays.
On Wednesdays, the students can
visit the museum free of admission.
Full ticket: 100 TL
Discounted: 50 TL
Groups: 80 TL (minimum 10 people)