
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 t... (Full plot summary below)
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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.
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| User ReviewPrivate UGreat show especially if you're a Singaporean. :D |
| User ReviewLucky K"Why do I keep loving you, when you're making me blue?" The question Tan Pin Pin raises about Singapore as "heard" through its soundscape of daily life. I think we all take the "diegetic" for granted so thanks to Pin Pin for reminding us that there is a human being after all behind that voice looming in the subway. |
| User ReviewAudrey TWonderful documentary about the sounds in our city which Singaporeans normally do not hear. |
| User ReviewShawn MI felt it was pretty fragmented and well pretty obscure in terms of the issues it handled, maybe cos I've just watch Michael Moore. |