16th Jul 07
Tan Pin Pin's New Documentary Opens 22 July 2007
Invisible City Opens in Singapore for a three week run at The Arts House. Please visit the official website. To buy tickets, call 63326919. Thank you for your support

17th Jun 07
Singapore Film Society Takes Singapore GaGa to Italy
Every year SFS screens a Singaporean film at an annual gathering of film clubs in Italy. This year, they screen Singapore GaGa! Cineclubfilmfestivals

19th Mar 07
Screening at University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
Singapore Film Festival 2007, Illinois Union Courtyard Cafe, March 28th 2007, 7pm to 10pm

30th Dec 06
VOTED BEST FILM 2006
-Straits Times in their annual survey
We are ecstatic. Thank you for your support.
Look out for Invisible City

6th Nov 06
Where is Labuan?
We are showing in Labuan, Borneo, East Malaysia at The Labuan Mini Arts Festival, 20-30 November. Dear Labuanians, please enjoy Singapore GaGa!

7th Nov 06
Christmas Presents?
BUY GAGA HERE S$23 (Home Use only)

In Singapore
HMV, Heeren, CitiLink

Kinokuniya Main Store
391 Orchard Rd #03-09/10/15
Takashimaya Shopping Centre
Tel: 6737-5021

Earshot Cafe
The Arts House
1 Old Parliament Lane
Tel: 6332 6900

Earshot @ Esplanade
1 Esplanade Drive #01-01/03
Tel: 6884 5658

Books Actually
125A Telok Ayer St
Tel: 6221 1170

Objectifs
12A Liang Seah St (opp Bugis Junction)
Tel 63393068

7th Oct 06
Finally, GaGa's DVD release on 30 Oct.
At Kinokuniya @Takashimaya, Earshot @Arts House, Objectifs @Liang Seah St (tel 63393068) and Objectifs' website (if you are overseas). A most suitable Christmas present for all ages.

7th Oct 06
Asian Film Festival in Lyon, France
9 Nov, 1830hr at University of Lyon. I wish I could go, but I am in production for Invisible City. If you are there, please tell me how it goes. Same for the MOMA screenings as well as Toronto screenings.

28th Sep 06
Open Air screening in Taichung (Taiwan)
2 Nov 7pm Taiwan International Documentary festival.

28th Sep 06
USA Premiere at MOMA, New York!
Screening at Museum of Modern Art with locust, Lost Soul
Thursday, October 12, 6:00
Friday, October 13, 8:00

Link

22nd Sep 06
Festivals Ahoy
Taiwan International Documentary Festival, Taichung, 1 Nov
ReelAsian, Toronto
USA-Asean Film Festival, Washington DC 4 Nov

12th Sep 06
Singapore GaGa tours Malaysia
Screening in Kuala Lumpur, 2.30pm, Sat 30 Sept Taylors College in Subang Jaya and in Penang 6-8 Oct as part of Freedom Film Festival. Come one come all. I will be in KL to present the film.
Link

15th Aug 06
Singapore GaGa is on SIngapore Airlines
If you are one of the 20,000 flying on SIA every day, you can catch Singapore GaGa on board. The screening is part of SIA's attempt to showcase Singaporean films. Thank you SIA! If you enjoyed it, let them know and they may be encouraged to show more local films. Krisflyer feedback,

4th Aug 06
Cine.sg 2 August 2006, National Museum Cinematheque
Thank you for your support for this sold out screening

18th Jul 06
ASEAN Film Festival
GaGa is Singapore's entry to the ASEAN Film Festival celebrating the 35th Anniversary of ASEAN. 9-15 August, Manila.

14th Jul 06
Australian Premiere
Brisbane International Film Festival is screening GaGa on 5 and 13 August. Details

"Singapore GaGa is an engaging addition to the 'city film', which goes back to the 'silent' city symphonies, of which Berlin Symphony of a City (1927) is the best known. Other influential films in this style include the portraits of Tokyo contained in Chris Marker's Sunless (1983), Wim Wenders's Tokyo-Ga (1985), and Thom Anderson's assembly of 'found' footage in Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003, BIFF 2004). What links these otherwise disparate films, located on the boundary between experimental film and documentary, is the foregrounding of the city and its inhabitants as the primary subject and not merely as backdrops for the playing out of individual stories.In place of the rhythmic montage of the city symphonies, Tan Pin Pin has constructed a form of aural montage in an affectionately whimsical portrait of Singapore through its music and sounds, including announcements on public transport, eccentric street musicians, Madrash school cheer squads, and avant-garde pianist Margaret Long Tan, who plays on a toy piano. Singapore GaGa continues Tan Pin Pin's fascination with Singapore's daily life, also evident in earlier award-winning films such as Moving House (2001), about compulsory exhumation of grave sites; Building Dreams(2002), about Singapore's architectural history; and 80kmh (2003), which establishes the time it takes to drive across the city at 80 kilometres per hour." - BIFF programme notes

14th Jul 06
Malaysian travelling Road Show
Singapore GaGa screens at a special Presentation at Freedom Film Festival (KL & Penang, Malaysia) on 29 September. Screened together with Moving House, watch this space for more details

1st Jun 06
RaRa National Day
cine.sg screens GaGa on 2 Aug @ Singapore History Museum, 7.30pm Ticket info
Moving House and Gravedigger's Luck will also be screened too. Please come

25th May 06
Screening in Toronto at Congress 2006
The largest Humanities Event in CanadaClick on York Playbill

10th May 06
Singapore GaGa is represented by Focus Films at Cannes Film Market May 2006
Focus Films

26th Apr 06
Pin Pin will be fielding Q&A during screenings on 6 & 7 May

18th Apr 06
Singapore GaGa's run is extended 4 - 14 May
If you missed it the Arts House is extending the run
Wed (7.30pm & 9pm)
Sat & Sun (3pm & 4.30pm)
Tickets: 6332 6919
Thank you for your support!

20th Mar 06
By Popular Demand: 15 More screenings added
Thank you for your support. We are sorry if you had trouble getting tickets. Every screening has been sold out so far so we added 15 more shows to the orignal 16 extending the run twice. Still, please book early: tel 63326919 to guarantee a place

14th Mar 06
Our 15 minutes on the mr brown show with Margaret Leng Tan
listen to podcast

12th Mar 06
Go "listen" to Singapore GaGa
and take everyone with you
-Lianhe Zaobao

10th Mar 06
If you watch only one local film in your life, let this be it.
TODAY
"+ + + +"

7th Mar 06
Blogs on GaGa
Tym Blogs Too
Miyagi
Yawning Bread
mr brown
popagandhi
nutshellreview
singabloodypore

7th Mar 06
MTVasia.com digs GaGa
Link

27th Feb 06
Hear Pin Pin talk about making Singapore GaGa
Radio Singapore International

21st Feb 06
Bangkok Post chooses SIngapore GaGa as a Bangkok Film Festival Pick.
Link

4th Jan 06
Singapore GaGa Selected for Bangkok International Film Festival Feb 2006

29th Dec 05
Rotterdam Film Festival Here We Come
Ingenious, warm and ironic documentary about the rough edges of the most manicured city in the world. A documentary with character and real protagonists. With music as the main thread, the documentary maker crosses her home city. With a sensitive ear and a sharp eye, she records what often is not heard or seen. The absurd in everyday life. Despite its light tone, the film has a lot to tell us about modern life, especially in Singapore. An essay in verses. And maybe even a political pamphlet about the city that just has to be a country and wants to make rules for the unruleable.
- Rotterdam Festival Programme notes
Fri, Jan 27, 12h15, Cinerama
Sat Jan 28, 14h00, Venster 1

12th Dec 05
Singapore GaGa presents a brilliant alternative ga-ga view of the go-go Lion City.
The Star Malaysia

1st Dec 05
Original, energetic and optimistic
Festival of 3 Continents Review In French

9th Nov 05
Singapore GaGa screens @ Malaysian Video Awards Fri 2 Dec, 8pm National Art Gallery, KL

28th Sep 05
Singapore GaGa @ Festival of Three Continents, in Competition, Nantes, France, Saturday, 26 Nov, 1000hrs & 1615hrs, Cinematographe

27th Sep 05
Review by Singapore Architect Magazine
Amusing and offbeat at times, nostalgic and wistful at others, Singapore GaGa will certainly strike a deep emotional chord . The allure of the work lies in the rawness of the shot and the directness of its subjects.

11th Sep 05
Review by Firecracker Magazine
Through their innovative documentaries, their films embark on a quest to better understand the world around them. Both Diaz and Tan emerge as two of the leading female directors who present us with a fresh perspective on the cultural idiosyncrasies from two of Asia’s lesser-known filmmaking nations

7th Sep 05
London Screening @ Firecracker Showcase
GaGa screens in London on Sun, 18 Sept, noon at Curzon Mayfair under the Firecracker Showcase of Asian Films. Tell your London friends! One time only!
Firecracker Interview

25th Jun 05
FOUR STARS **** for Singapore GaGa in the Straits Times
"A subtly subversive yet thoroughly celebratory film ... One of the best films about Singapore" - Ong Sor Fern, Straits Times

6th Aug 05
Singapore GaGa tours the Schools!
Bedok View Secondary School, Raffles Institution, Anderson Junior College, Madrasah Aljunied & Raffles Girls' School have seen it. Screen Singapore GaGa at your school? Contact: info@objectifs.com.sg

6th Aug 05
Singapore GaGa @ Asia Research Institute
Tues, 6th Sept
3:00 pm - 4:30pm (with Q&A), Faculty Lounge, Level 1, AS7,
Shaw Foundation Building, National University of Singapore

21st Jul 05
Review by Senses of Cinema
...I was particularly taken by the inventiveness of Tan Pin Pin’s Singapore GaGa, a documentary that seeks to harness a sense of place by exploring the sounds that make the city reverberate for both the filmmaker and her audience alike. In this revealing journey we hear people sing hymns to themselves and to their communities and a sense of what it might mean to be a modern Singaporean emerges without once resorting to the jingoism or rhetoric so often associated with such projects...

28th Jun 05
Substation screenings were all full house
Thank you for your support. Watch this space for further screening info

17th Jun 05
Singapore GaGa invited to Rotterdam International Film Festival 2006

1st Jul 05
Singapore GaGa @Substation July1-3. Buy Tickets now!
Five screenings over the first weekend of July

Friday, 1 July, 8pm
Saturday, 2 July, (2 screenings) 4pm, 8pm
Sunday, 3 July, (2 screenings) 4pm, 8pm
Screenings preceded by a short film

Tickets $9, $6 (conc) from Substation, Centre for the Arts from 10 June
45 Armenian Street, 63377800
Box office hours: Monday to Friday 12-8.30 pm
Friday's proceeds go to Substation's Moving Images Programme
substation.org

23rd May 05
Singapore GaGa @Singapore Art Museum Mon 23 May
Singapore GaGa screens at the Museum on Vesak Day Monday in conjunction with Singapore Art Museum's President's Young Talents Exhibition which features Pin Pin's work. Its followed by a talk.

Singapore Art Museum, 4pm, The Cube. (seats 40)
71 Bras Basah Road