Singapore GaGa

A gentle, curious drift through everyday sounds and voices, finding quiet delight in the ordinary and the overlooked.

Directed by

Tan Pin Pin

Genres

Documentary

Starring

Melvyn Cedello, Victor Khoo, Hong Chow Yew

Overview

Singapore GaGa is a 55-minute paean to the quirkiness of the Singaporean aural landscape. It reveals Singapore's past and present with a delight and humour that makes it a necessary film for all Singaporeans. We hear buskers, street vendors, school cheerleaders sing hymns to themselves and to their communities. From these vocabularies (including Arabic, Latin, Hainanese), a sense of what it might mean to be a modern Singaporean emerges. This is Singapore's first documentary to have a cinema release. With English and Chinese subtitles.

How it feels

Warm, whimsical, melancholic and earnest. Measured and needs your attention.

About

Identity, art, memory, music

Content

Mild language. No violence, gore or sexual content.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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