Events

Jointly organized by the Asia Research Institute, Department of Architecture, and the Cities Cluster of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore.

Title: 03-FLATS
Executive Producer: Lilian Chee
Producers: Lei Yuan Bin and Tan Bee Thiam
Direction / Cinematography / Editing / Sound: Lei Yuan Bin
Length of Film: 90 minutes

There will be a question-and-answer session with the Principal Investigator & Executive Producer Dr Lilian Chee after the film screening.

DISCUSSANT

Dr Simone Chung, Asia Research Institute, NUS

SYNOPSIS

Singapore’s public housing programme—an inclusive space that prioritizes families and intergenerational living—is arguably the most successful in the world. Amidst this backdrop, 03-FLATS follows the domestic experiences of three single women who are at different stages of their lives. Looking from within each flat, the film moves between the women’s distinctively lived interiors and the ordered public spaces beyond. It records how domestic resilience might resist the ennui of mass housing, turning housing into home. 03-FLATS is a key filmic output of a research initiative led by Dr Lilian Chee (Department of Architecture, NUS). Chee conceptualised the project and made the film in collaboration with award-winning Singaporean director and filmmaker Lei Yuan Bin (13 Little Pictures) to probe how domesticity—a critical component wherein home is produced—may be viscerally represented and experientially encountered. 03-FLATS was in competition at the Busan International Film Festival (2014) and won the best ASEAN documentary at the Salaya International Documentary Film Festival (2015).

ABOUT THE EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

Lilian Chee is Assistant Professor at the National University of Singapore. Her recent interdisciplinary work includes editing Asian Cinema and the Use of Space: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Routledge, 2015) and producing/conceptualizing the architectural film 03-FLATS (NUS and 13 Little Pictures, 2014). Her writings have appeared in Gender Place Culture, The Journal of Tropical Geography, The Journal of Architecture and Haecceity Papers. She is on the editorial boards of The Journal of Architecture and Singapore Architect. Her current book project is about affect and architectural discourse in the Singapore millieu.

REGISTRATION

Admission is free. We would greatly appreciate if you RSVP to fasscities@nus.edu.sg.