microwave is a video installation where different objects were filmed while they were being rotated in a microwave. I put objects like a dollar note, an American Express card, as well as a Barbie doll in the oven, chosen for their combustible as well as their iconic qualities. I wanted to explore the idea of "looking", how one sometimes is riveted to watching something happen in real time, I was also curious as to new meanings that could be extracted by putting icons in these unexpected surroundings.

Directed and Produced by Tan Pin Pin
Production Assistance: Suryahti Abdul Latiff, Clayton Brown
With Thanks: Annette Barbier, John Mintier

• Best of Double Take Documentary Film Festival DVD showcase, Microwave

• Best of Festival Showcase, Boston Underground Film Festival, Microwave

• Double Take Documentary Film Festival

• Chicago Underground Film Festival

• Boston Underground Film Festival

• MIX New York, MIX Brazil

• Women of Color Film Festival

• Flicker Film Festival

• Film Fest New Haven

• Chicago Asian American Showcase

• Media Impossible Video Art Festival, Korea

• UK, Painkiller for My Foreign Body, a Showcase of Singapore Film & Video (1967-2007), Asian Film Archive

• Substation, Women in Film

• Chicago Community Cinema

• e-phos 2002: 4th International Festival of Film & New Media

• Malaysian Video Awards

• Muestra Internacional de Videoarte Cartagena/Barranquilla, Columbia

• Festival Internacional de Video/Arte/Electronica Lima, Peru

• Media Resource Centre, Adelaide, Australia

• Incubation 2, International Conference on Writing and the Internet, Nottingham, UK

• Videotage, Hong Kong

• 4th Annual Art in General Video Marathon, New York, USA

• Digital Media Festival 2001, Manila, Philippines

• Multimedia Art Asia Pacific Festival, Brisbane, Australia

• National University of Singapore, University Scholars Programme