Sine Screen Presents: Scraps of Memory: Film Screening & Q&A

Sine Screen is a screening collective dedicated to showcasing independent cinema and moving image works from across East and Southeast Asia.

This programme brings together two artists - Sylvia Schedelbauer and Richard Fung – who often make work about their own histories and their relationship to wider political histories of diaspora. The event invites audiences to watch these hard-to-see works within a communal space that invites reflection and conversation in a post-screening online Q&A with Sylvia Schedelbauer.

The programme takes the 𝓯𝓪𝓶𝓲𝓵𝔂 𝓪𝓻𝓬𝓱𝓲𝓿𝓮 as its point of departure, exploring the complex personal and political histories of diaspora and migration. Both artists blur fact and fiction to question the reliability of narrative as a tool for constructing history, devising enthralling and formally experimental ways to engage with the absences and ruptures within their own familial pasts.

For Sylvia Schedelbauer, she (re)constructs the family archive and questions her parents’ past in 𝘔𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 (2004), using family photos to map out what led to her parents’ meeting in Japan, details that were never revealed to the filmmaker. For queer Chinese-Trinidadian artist Richard Fung, he takes home movies, family photos and testimonies in 𝘚𝘦𝘢 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘥
(2000), as a mode to connect his sister’s rare blood disease with his lifelong partner’s AIDS diagnosis, and places them both against Trinidad and Tobago’s history of colonialism and independence.

Curated by @whatever.ren