‘First Take’ at The Substation Theatre

On 6th July, I overslept, and missed having dinner with Zhu Chuan and Hwei Ee. Heh.

Well, after I woke up, we all trooped down to Substation Theatre! For all those from Apollo, that’s the place behind which we had our fac outing. yep, set up by the grand-daddy of Singapore arts, Kuo Pao Kun.

‘First Take’ is a free screening of 3 local shorts every first Monday of the month. After the screening of the shorts, there was a dialogue session with the directors of the shorts.

Two of the movies involved imaginary characters (personally I feel it’s like ‘A beautiful mind’ effect? somehow after that movie lots of film material started to contain schizophrenic people with serious hallucinations). The other one was a really short short with no clear ending… I thought it was rather nonsensical at first.

However, the interaction with the directors gave the audience a chance to understand the director’s message behind the show, which I felt was really good. The short I felt was nonsensical had quite an interesting story behind it, which amuses me to no end. (something to do with betrayal and the goddess of mercy haha)

All in all, a really good event for previewing local work from film makers just like ourselves (just with better equipment hah) and learning much!

Cheronne.